Tyler Hawkins

Senior software engineer. Continuous learner. Educator. http://tylerhawkins.info

Orem, UT Joined on Mar 2, 2020 http://tylerhawkins.info

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Senior Software Engineer at Adobe

Tyler Hawkins

Aug 11

There Will Always Be More Work

#healthydebate #career #leadership #devjournal

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What I Look for When Hiring Senior Software Engineers

Thanks Charlie! It's an interesting question for sure. I hear...

Aug 12

What I Look for When Hiring Senior Software Engineers

Thank you Usman! That’s very kind of you.

Aug 9

Delegating Effectively as a Tech Lead

Thank you! I hope this helps you and your team!

Jul 20

How to Prevent or Recover from Developer Burnout

This was incredibly thorough and helpful, thank you.

Jun 25

Bringing Back the 90s with the Wicked Coolkit

Haha don't make me feel old!

Jun 17

Build a Reddit Clone with React and Dgraph Cloud

Thank you!

May 5

Build a Reddit Clone with React and Dgraph Cloud

Thank you!

May 3

Clean Code with Unit Tests: Tips and tricks for keeping your test suites clean

Thank you! And yes, absolutely, these are great testing princ...

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Aug 9

What I Look for When Hiring Senior Software Engineers

#career #programming #leadership #codequality

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Jul 26

Build a customer service chatbot using Python, Flask, and Pinecone

#python #machinelearning #tutorial #webdev

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Jul 19

Delegating Effectively as a Tech Lead

#leadership #career #productivity #programming

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Jun 24

Software Engineers Need to Know DevOps Too, and That Starts with CI/CD

#devops #webdev #programming #armory

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Jun 21

We need to make content creation worth software engineers' time

#watercooler #writing #webdev #devjournal

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Jun 17

Bringing Back the 90s with the Wicked Coolkit

#javascript #html #heroku #salesforce

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Jun 14

E2E Testing with React, Jest, and the TestProject JavaScript OpenSDK

#react #javascript #testing #webdev

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Jun 7

Managing Complexity Through Merge Request Templates

#programming #productivity #javascript #codequality

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Jun 4

Slack Etiquette: How to use Slack effectively and respectfully at work

#watercooler #productivity #programming #career

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May 31

Test-Driven Development for Building User Interfaces

#webdev #javascript #tdd #react

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May 17

Understanding the Node.js Event Loop

#javascript #node #webdev #heroku

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May 10

Step-by-Step Guide to Updating Your npm Dependencies with Yarn

#javascript #webdev #npm #beginners

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May 3

Build a Reddit Clone with React and Dgraph Cloud

#react #javascript #graphql #dgraph

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Apr 26

Remote Pair Programming with Visual Studio Code and Live Share

#webdev #vscode #heroku #tutorial

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Apr 7

Clean Code with Unit Tests: Tips and tricks for keeping your test suites clean

#javascript #react #beginners #testing

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Mar 18

How to Create Review Apps on Heroku

#webdev #heroku #github #tutorial

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Mar 17

"We didn't write tests because we wanted to get our code out faster"

#testing #testdev #beginners #codequality

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Mar 8

How to Write Awful Commit Messages – And Good Ones Too

#github #git #beginners #codequality

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Feb 22

React Clean Code - Simple ways to write better and cleaner code

#react #javascript #beginners #webdev

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Feb 16

Polyfills, Ponyfills, and Transpiling

#javascript #webdev #beginners #babel

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Feb 2

How to Implement a GraphQL API on Top of an Existing REST API

#graphql #heroku #javascript #webdev

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Jan 27

Why You Need a Design System

#design #webdev #systems #productivity

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Jan 25

DocRaptor vs. WeasyPrint: A PDF Export Showdown

#javascript #python #bash #docraptor

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Jan 19

How to Be a Terrible Project Maintainer

#career #javascript #satire #codequality

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Jan 12

Productivity Life Hacks for Software Engineers (and All Knowledge Workers)

#productivity #programming #career #heroku

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Jan 6

Career Advice for Junior Developers

#career #javascript #beginners #heroku

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Jan 5

Why I Re-Wrote the focus-trap-react Test Suite Using React Testing Library

#react #javascript #testing #opensource

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Dec 14 '20

Build Your Own Puppy Playdate Tinder App with Slash GraphQL

#react #javascript #graphql #dgraph

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Dec 7 '20

When to Write End-to-End Tests

#testing #testdev #webdev #javascript

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Dec 1 '20

Productivity Tools and Practices for Software Engineers and Tech Companies

#javascript #webdev #productivity #heroku

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Nov 30 '20

Callbacks, Promises, and Async/Await in JavaScript

#javascript #beginners #codenewbie #webdev

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Nov 25 '20

Cleaning up Disk Space on a Linux Machine from the Command Line

#todayilearned #linux #bash #codenewbie

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Nov 10 '20

How to Convert HTML Tables into Beautiful PDFs

#javascript #docraptor #webdev #html

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Nov 10 '20

An Introduction to Test-Driven Development

#testing #tdd #javascript #test

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Nov 2 '20

A Checklist Manifesto: The Importance of Merge Request Templates

#webdev #testing #github #productivity

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Oct 26 '20

I Wish I Never Learned to Code

#career #satire #webdev #heroku

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Oct 19 '20

The Single Most Important Thing You Can Learn As a Software Engineer

#career #webdev #productivity #beginners

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Oct 12 '20

Hiring Best Practices From Google

#career #hiring #interview #management

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Oct 5 '20

Love Them or Hate Them, Coding Exercises Are an Essential Part of Software Engineering Interviews

#career #webdev #javascript #computerscience

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Sep 29 '20

Module Mocking in Jest

#javascript #testing #webdev #tutorial

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Sep 14 '20

How to Build a Pokédex React App with a Slash GraphQL Backend

#graphql #react #javascript #webdev

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Aug 31 '20

3 Common Mistakes With React Keys

#react #javascript #beginners #webdev

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Aug 11 '20

How Dev Bootcamps Are Failing Their Students

#webdev #beginners #javascript #career

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Jul 28 '20

Developing and Deploying Micro-Frontends with single-spa

#showdev #javascript #react #architecture

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Jul 27 '20

Web Component Solutions: A Comparison

#javascript #webdev #design #react

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Jul 20 '20

3 Mistakes Junior Developers Make with React Function Component State

#react #javascript #webdev #beginners

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Jul 13 '20

Protecting Against XSS Attacks in React

#react #javascript #security #beginners

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Jun 15 '20

3 React Mistakes Junior Developers Make With Component State

#react #javascript #beginners #webdev

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May 29 '20

What have you found most difficult about prioritizing paying down technical debt in your software company?

#discuss #webdev #productivity #javascript

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May 26 '20

Understanding the Difference Between Reference and Value in JavaScript

#javascript #beginners #webdev

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May 13 '20

Your Web Accessibility Checklist

#webdev #javascript #a11y #html

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May 6 '20

How to get the most out of Heroku CI

#ci #heroku #webdev #javascript

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May 4 '20

Key Application Performance Metrics From the Viewpoint of a Statistician-Turned-Developer

#statistics #heroku #webdev #monitoring

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Apr 28 '20

You Can’t Keep Building on a Broken System: Why Managing Technical Debt is So Important

#technicaldebt #career #webdev #engineeringculture

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Apr 23 '20

How to Unit Test HTML and Vanilla JavaScript Without a UI Framework

#javascript #testing #webdev #html

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Apr 6 '20

I Built an App That Uses All 7 New Features in JavaScript ES2020

#heroku #javascript #webdev #career

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Mar 24 '20

Use Dependency Injection to Make Your Code Testable

#javascript #webdev #testing #productivity

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Mar 16 '20

Updating Dependencies While Keeping package.json and yarn.lock in Sync

#javascript #webdev #npm #productivity

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Mar 12 '20

Track Down Pesky Bugs with `git bisect`

#webdev #git #javascript #beginners

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