advice - Grant Winney

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Apr 10, 2019

8 Tools Every Developer Should Know and Use

You learn a lot doing a decade of anything... techniques, approaches, tools. If someone asked you what the top 10 tools were in your field, what would you tell them? Here's my top 10 list for software development....

web design user experience blogging advice

Mar 15, 2018

5 ways to improve your blog posts without touching the content

I read quite a few blog posts in any given week normally, but in the last week I read more than usual. I noticed a few trends that bothered me, so here's a few suggestions I'd like to humbly make that could improve your visitor's experience....

programming advice

Oct 28, 2017

Do your future self a favor... don't future-proof your code

The phrase "future-proofing" makes me cringe as a developer. It's natural, especially as you gain experience, to see a few steps ahead. But this can lead to a tendency to over-engineer solutions, in order to make things easier later. Avoid that tendency any earlier than necessary!...

StackOverflow advice

Jun 02, 2017

8 things you should consider when (and before!) asking a question on Stack Overflow

I don't write this post as some representative of the Stack Overflow community or whatever, just one guy who's found...

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Cloudinary is an image and video management platform, which freed me from my dependency on YouTube to host videos on this site.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.