Jacob Herrington (he/him) articles - 49 total
SQL From Scratch Part 1 - Getting Started with SQL
Welcome to the first article of what will hopefully be a pretty long and useful series on SQL. Befor...
Easily Squash, Reword, Amend, and Sort Commits with Git Rebase
Recently (not that recently), I wrote an article explaining the oft-misunderstood git command: git re...
Interview with Charity Majors: 6 Key Career Lessons From the CTO of Honeycomb
Late in 2019, I met a person who I had only know through their (fantastic) blog and Twitter feed: Cha...
Git Rebase Explained Simply
Rebase might be the most misunderstood git command. Nearly every junior developer I pair with is ter...
How I Handle the Fear of Rejection
This is a slightly edited version of a short blurb I sent out to my email subscribers in November....
How to Find Mentors, Grow a Network, and Make Friends
Recently, I wrote about my success building a career on relationships and networking, and about my de...
How I Got Hired at DEV (and Every Other Tech Job)
On tech jobs There has never been a better time to join the tech industry. These days we h...
What Alternative Text Editors Does DEV Use? (Not VS Code 🐱👓)
Hey DEV! I'm a huge fan of VS Code, and I use it for pair programming and occasionally whe...
Give Your Terminal Super Powers: tmux Cheatsheet!
tmux is an application that I use in my terminal to manage several programs running at once. I've use...
The Divergence of Open Source Maintainer From Software Engineer
In my career, I've had the opportunity to work as a maintainer on a few Open Source projects (one of...
Setting Up a Svelte Project (in seconds) with Degit
Getting started with Svelte can be a little bit intimidating for JavaScript developers familiar with...
Interview with Molly Struve: 3 Tactics for Mentoring Others
In August, I met a ton of gifted engineers. Among those Engineers was Molly Struve, a Lead Site Relia...
How to Write Useful Commit Messages (My Commit Message Template)
We've all lived the XKCD about git commit messages at some point. I am no exception. This is what...
Challenger Approaching: I am joining the DEV team!
It's official, today is my first day working with the DEV team. I've made a handful of PRs to DEV an...
A Fool-Proof Way to Keep Your Fork Caught Up in Git
How do you keep a fork up to date with the main repository on GitHub? It seems like quite a few peop...
Interview with Taylor Otwell: 6 Lessons Learned From Creating Laravel
A few weeks ago, I had the good fortune to meet Taylor Otwell, the creator of a massively popular web...
Svelte Web Interfaces with Svelte
Did anyone else just find out that svelte is a real word? It's pretty much a synonym for lithe or sle...
Interview with Cassidy Williams: 3 Ways to Deconstruct Problems That Cause Imposter Syndrome
In July, Cassidy Williams and I got on a call and talked about her career experiences....
4 Useful Solutions to Common Git Problems
Cover Image: Black and Silver Laptop Computer on Round Brown Wooden Table by Christina Morillo These...
7 Ways to Get the Most Out of Pair Programming
Cover Image: Woman Wearing Red and Black Checkered Blouse Using Macbook by Christina Morillo I spend...
Which Non-US Software Engineers Should I Follow? (Includes Big Twitter Thread)
I've been trying to expand my network, and I'm particularly passionate about building relationships w...
Interview with Kent C. Dodds: 8 Tips for Building Your Career
The first interview I ever publicized was my chat with Kent C. Dodds. For the few of you who haven't...
50 Things I Wish I'd Known at My First Developer Job (Part 2)
This is part 2! 26. Culture fit is dangerous Culture fit might be one of the most dangero...
10 Hiring Practices That Will Keep Me From Working for You
Different variations of this conversation have been in my Twitter feed all day, and I chose to weigh-...
50 Things I Wish I'd Known at My First Developer Job (Part 1)
I split this article into two parts because it was pretty long. This is a list of 50 things I would...
Interview with Ali Spittel: 5 Tips for Contributing to the Developer Community
A subtitle of this talk could be: How to Grow by Giving. Ali is pretty well known in the Dev.to comm...
Interview with Emma Wedekind: 3 Tips for Growing as an Engineer
Cover Image: Person Holding Volume Knob by Nicholas Githiri Back in January, I got to interview Emma...
Open Source Made Me $10K Working Part-Time for 30 Days
Cover Image: Eyeglasses in Front of Laptop Computer by Christina Morillo I give a lot of career advic...
Chris Oliver: Creator of GoRails, Hatchbox, and Remote Ruby Host on Learning to Build Software
Chris Oliver (known in the Twitterverse as excid3) is the creator of GoRails.com, a screencasting and...
10 More Git Tricks That You Should Know
Cover Image: Two People Holding Macbook Pro by Christina Morillo I recently wrote an article called 1...