Alec Brunelle articles - 19 total
Running SQL Migrations Before Booting Docker Compose Services
Having a great local development experience is critical to happy engineers. Developers are happy to...
Build a Next.js Blog with Cosmic’s GraphQL API
Cosmic CMS is a great choice when creating a blog, band website or e-commerce store
Calm, Private and Healthy, A HEY Email Review
A new email service by the folks at Basecamp.
A Better Way to use GraphQL Fragments in React
Defining fragments inside the components that render data brings many benefits.
How does your company handle research and investigation work?
Tickets? Spikes? Nothing at all?
Publishing a JavaScript Package to NPM automatically with Github Actions
Maintaining an open-source package can be a time-consuming task.
Quit Google Analytics, Self-hosted Gatsby Statistics with Ackee
There are many different goals one can have when it comes to hosting your own website or blog.
Is knowing how to use Docker a prerequisite to becoming a Senior Software Developer?
Just a question I think needs some discussion. I know titles in software dev are pretty much out the...
1 year with Cypress: The Guide to End-To-End Testing 🚀
In software development, the faster you move, the more things break.
My first meetup talk @ GraphQL Toronto ⚛️
I took the leap
How To Make Money From Your Software Blog Without Hosting Ads 💸
We all know advertising sucks, but when it comes to writing blog articles and getting paid for it, a necessary evil.
The Brave Browser just released a new way to support contributors on Github 🤑
With the recent release of Brave (0.69), they have added a new way to share your Basic Attention...
Why I use Fish Shell over Bash and Zsh 🐟
Want more great content like this? Sign up for my newsletter, visit: alec.coffee/signup One of the...
Good books for developer managers?
Hello fellow dev.to patrons. I was recently recommended Peopleware and thought I would ask for some...
Hacking my Honeymoon with JavaScript 🦒
How I used a little JavaScript to book The Giraffe Manor in Kenya
Resolving tricky situations with git reset and rebase 🧶
You should care about how clean your Git history is. It provides a way to communicate changes to a codebase with other developers who you are working with, but doing so requires some thought and intention. Ever seen one as clean as this?
Using Bull.js to manage job queues in a Node.js micro-service stack
An explanation into how we built a job queuing system for use in a micro-service context and how we contributed back our work along the way.
How Learning Elixir Made Me a Better Programmer 🥃
My notes on learning Elixir and how it helped me with my day job, where I dont write Elixir.
The Best Parts of The Pragmatic Programmer 📚
Highlights and thoughts about this legendary book.