Harriet articles - 7 total
What You Need to Know About Optimistic Concurrency
Have you ever heard of optimistic concurrency? Not exactly sure what it means? In this post, I'll explain what it is, how can it be implemented, and what it might mean for your application
What did your onboarding documentation look like when you started your job?
I'm curious - tell me about what documentation you were provided to help you during onboarding, or just in general.
Hiding Functionality Behind Feature Flags with Launch Darkly
How to toggle functionality on/off for all users, or specific users, using Launch Darkly
The Three Month Rule of a New Job
Why I always tell people to expect to feel a bit useless for the first 3 months in a new job, and how to feel better about it.
The introduction to servers I wish I'd had
In this post, I explain and demonstrate what a server is, and show you how to get and connect to a server, and host a simple web page on a server!
Maybe I Should Have Just Used create-react-app
A story about how I optimised my webpack configuration to reduce my bundle size, and improve my page performance - and came to question whether I should have just used create-react-app in the first place.
From JavaScript to Ruby: A few of my favourite features
Coming from JavaScript to Ruby, I was excited to learn the language that promised to be "designed for developer happiness". Here are a few of my favourite features!