Jason McCreary articles - 37 total
42 Git Questions Answered
Answers to 42 Git questions asked during a recent training I lead to guide a development team from git init to Git Master.
Building Products - Building an audience
The second in a series on building products where I review steps done to grow a new audience for my upcoming product Optionality.
Jekyll to Jigsaw
Some notes on the process of converting the static site generator I use from Jekyll to Jigsaw.
2018 Lookbehind, Lookahead 2019
A look back at my 2018 dev goals and a lookahead at my dev goals for 2019.
Building Products - Starting from Square 0
The first in a series of posts on building products from the ground up.
Black Friday Deals
Discussion to share the good "Black Friday" deals within the tech community.
10 practices for writing readable code
A set of 10 practices for writing code with a focus on improving readability and reducing complexity.
Untangling Nested Code
How to identify the different forms of nested code and remove them.
Removing Comments
A closer look at the practice of removing comments from code.
Practicing YAGNI - Show me the code
A write-up of what practicing YAGNI looks like in code.
Practicing YAGNI
A summary of my talk at Laracon on "Practicing YAGNI".
2018 Dev Goals
A little backstory on the 5 development goals I set to achieve in 2018
100 days practicing TDD
A retro after practicing test driven development for 100 days.
Another month of clean code
Another month worth of clean code examples from my weekly tweets.
The Debugging Golden Rule
Developers need to remember the Debugging Golden Rule.
Why I leave a job
A reflection on the core criteria of a good job after deciding to leave The New York Times.
Fake it by stubbing the mock, dummy
Why differences in test objects are often inconsequential and how abstraction can improve developer happiness.
A month of clean code
A collection of my recent "clean code" tweets with before and after code samples.
Writing Clean Code (Part 2)
Three more practices to write clean code and help improve code readability.
The Proximity Rule
A recent coding style I call the "Proximity Rule". Might be called something else, but I still like the code.
Are you a Boy Scout?
A look at how the simple practice of "boyscouting" can improve your code.
SMS admin in 8 lines of code
In an effort to provide on the go support for my SaaS, I created an SMS based admin using Nexmo and Laravel.
I'm a Git Master, Ask Me Anything
I've been programming for 20 years. I'm very passionate about what I do and lately I've been on a mission to empower developers to master Git. So I'm glad to answer any and all of your Git questions (or anything else).
Committing to the wrong branch
Exploring the various Git commands you can run when you make a commit on the wrong branch.
References from "Writing Clean Code"
Additional references from my recent post "Writing Clean Code" contain ing motivation and practices for writing clean code.
Writing Clean Code
Three simple practices to help write clean code and improve the readability of a codebase.
You changed the code, you didn't refactor the code.
A closer look at the important difference between changing code and refactoring code.
Starting an online workshop on Git
The backstory for my plan to host an online workshop on Git.
Tweak your Terminal for Git
Tweak your terminal for Git by adding Git command completion and updating your prompt to include the Git repository status.
An edge case for cache busting
Most high performance web sites optimize for the sad path. In this article, we address a way to optimize for the happy path too.