Michael Caveney articles - 31 total
What Tools Does Every Web Developer Need To Have/Know?
This week, we're going to step away from languages and frameworks, and talk about the tools every...
Five Books That Every Software Developer Should Own
Books can be a tricky thing for programmers: Unless the subject matter is fairly evergreen and...
How Much JavaScript Do I Need To Be Job Ready?
Today, we're going to cover JavaScript, the last of the three foundational technologies used in web...
How Much CSS Do I Need To Be Job Ready?
A guide to the minimum effective dose of CSS you need to be job-ready
How to Avoid Overlearning In Software Development
In the last entry in the Minimum Effective Development series, I talked about what kinds of things pe...
What You Need to Know Before You Start Learning Code
A guide to efficiently approaching learning code
My March & April In Code
Two months in one blog entry? What happened with March? Well, the whole point of this is for me to l...
How Much HTML Do I Need To Be Job-Ready?
A blog post about the minimum effective dose of HTML you need to be job-ready
How to Avoid Overlearning In Software Development
A guide to help beginners identify what overlearning in web development looks like, and how to avoid it.
My February In Code
It's that time of the month: time for accountability. What did I get done in February? What...
What You Need to Know Before You Start Learning Code
A guide to efficiently approaching learning code
My January In Code
Because I want to take greater pains to learn in public, let's see what my January in code looked lik...
How To Model Data for Full-Stack Applications
Something that struck me throughout my self-taught journey is that there seems to be a weird lack of...
My 2020 In Code, and What I'm Planning For 2021
A blog post looking back at my year in tech that was 2020, and looking forward at 2021
Course Review: Kent C. Dodd's Epic React
A review of Kent C. Dodds's Epic React course
How to Utilize the Gatsby Image API
A step by step guide on setup and utilization of the Gatsby Image API.
How to Create a Gatsby Starter
A step by step walkthrough on authoring a Gatsby Starter, and submitting it to the official Starter library.
What Does Your Job Search/Application Process Look Like?
I'm particularly interested in hearing about: Sites people are using/have had the most success wit...
Problem Solving with Project Euler, Part One: Multiples of 3 and 5
This post will contain potential spoilers/solutions for the first Project Euler problem, so read with...
Learning TypeScript, Part One: What Is TypeScript and Why Should I Care?
I'm currently refreshing my TypeScript knowledge and learning how to comprehensively apply it to Reac...
What Default CSS Styles Do You Apply To Every Project?
Something that I think about and work on a lot is writing better CSS. Trial and error and reading hav...
What Does Gatsby Mastery Look Like?
Few web dev technologies sparked joy for me like Gatsby, and I've been thinking about what real maste...
How to Plan and Execute an App Backend?
As a former inhabitant of "tutorial hell", I've noticed that one of the areas that that particular le...
What Do Web Developers Need To Know About HTTP/HTTPS?
In the Web Developer Roadmap and other sources, it's said that web developers should have some workin...
Critique My Resume!
I'm having some trouble getting past ATS, and I would really appreciate any critique of my resume tha...
Getting The Most Out of Coding Tutorials
A guide to coding tutorials for beginner web developers
The Most Important Traits for Software Developers To Have
Welcome to the latest entry in the Self-Taught Developer's Survival Guide! This entry was heavily del...
The Best Online Learning Resources for Web Developers
March 8th, 2019 Note: This is a slightly revised version of a post published on the previous...
College vs Bootcamp vs Self-Taught
January 25th, 2019 Welcome to the second official entry of the Self-Taught Developer's Survival Guid...
Welcome to the Self-Taught Developer's Survival Guide!
Note: This begins the cross-posting of my blog to dev.to! Newer entries will appear as I figure out t...