Glenn Stovall articles - 47 total
10 ways to thrive as an egotistical developer
You don't want to find the company where you're a good fit, you need to find the job that's a good...
Name Your Next Product With This Exercise
How do you come up with a product name? or a business name? Naming products is a hard but learnable...
SaaS Under The Surface
The Unknown Unknowns of Building a SaaS Application Some vital parts of a sustainable...
PR18 - Content creation & strategy w/ Stephanie Morillo
Product manager and content strategist, Stephanie Morillo. Who's also the author of the developer's...
How to decide when to build software vs. when to buy
All software choices fall somewhere on the build-buy spectrum, & all companies fall somewhere on...
Stop fighting holy wars
There are many “holy wars” in tech, and you’d be best served to stop participating in them. These...
What have you always wanted to ask a recruiter but couldn't?
Hey everyone! Is there anything you've ever wanted to ask a recruiter, but you didn't because of how...
My best developer interview experience
There are many less-than-ideal practices when it comes to interviewing software developers. Some...
How software can be racist (and what you can do to stop it)
Software is powerful, and we, as people who make software, have power. Software can be racist, and we all have a responsibility to use our power to stop it.
Quarantine work is not remote work
I’ve worked remotely for nearly a decade: Either self-employed or at a job, it was always completely...
How to Build an Indeterminate Checkbox in React
Fun fact: Did you know that HTML checkboxes have three built-in states, not just two? In addition to...
Side Hustle to For Investment, Not Income
If you have a side hustle, How much money does it bring in compared to your job? Have you considered...
5 Ways to Carve Large Pull Requests Into Bite-Sized Ones
Substantial, complicated updates break software in large, complicated ways. Smaller, simpler changes...
Case Study: 1 Talk + 1 Article = 2 New Clients
Occasionally you get lucky and catch a wave in your career. Technologies come and go. If you adopt...
How To Improve Documentation For New Users
Documentation has to fill the roles of onboarding new users as well as supporting existing ones. It...
Writing Tools: 12 Tools I Use For Publishing Content Today
One of everyone’s favorite ways to procrastinate it to futz with tooling. Well never fear, I’m here...
ShowDev: I've put together a free writing course for developers
I've put together a free course for developers who want to become better writers, teachers, and exper...
The Struggle of Marketing To Skeptical Developers
Selling software is an exercise in convincing the buyer that what your software can do is worth the...
What’s The Best Publishing Cadence?
If you’re starting a new blog or other publishing habits, how often should you be publishing? My...
Should You Write Longform Articles or A Shortform Series? – Reader Question
Yasawi asks: “If I have a big topic to blog, Should I make it into a series of blogposts under same...
Is Your Engineering Focus on Product or Craft?
There are two types of developers in this world, those who care about the product they produce and...
Is Your Engineering Focus on Product or Craft?
The most valuable conversations I have with product leaders are the ones where I fire myself....
What BuzzFeed Can Teach Us About Image Sliders
Image sliders: People don’t click them, read them, or like them. You can come up with a better way to...
I'm working on a guide for developers who want to blog, but don't know where to start. What questions should I answer?
The title says it all. I'm working on a brief guide tentatively titled "Start a technical blog today....
How Do I Complete Against Other, Better Bloggers? – Reader Question
I really want to start writing, but I’m inundated with thoughts of “so many people have written about this and my thoughts won’t compare”.
What Platform Do You Use For Blogging, and Why?
Hey All, curious what platforms you are using for writing now, and why? I'm researching some options...
Roll your Own Redux With useContext & useReducer
“Most projects aren’t complex enough to require Redux.” I hear this refrain from the React community...
Why Do They Call It “Serverless” If It Runs On A Server?
Serverless computing still relies on code running on servers, so why did everyone decide on this...
Let's Talk About MicroFrontends
It seems to be all the buzz on JavaScript Twitter: https://twitter.com/rickhanlonii/status/11393236...
New Redux Hooks: A Before And After Comparison. Are They Better?
Today the react-redux team released version 7.1.0, which adds hooks to react-redux! Here’s a quick co...