Shaquille Niekerk articles - 14 total
Containers Made Simple: No more ‘It Works on My Machine’
Hey there, welcome! I’m Shaq-Attack, a developer who firmly believes that “it works on my machine”...
Thinking About Switching to Omarchy — Is It Worth It?
Lately, I’ve been hearing about Omarchy, the workspace designed around using the keyboard as much as...
SQL vs NoSQL: The Data War That Never Really Ended
Welcome back to another episode of The Stack Unpacked. I'm Shaq-Attack, your friendly neighborhood...
Down the Web3 Rabbit Hole: A Dive Into Blockchain, Crypto & NFTs
Intro: Trying to Make Sense of the Buzz Everywhere I look, people are talking about...
TypeScript: The Safety Net JavaScript Didn’t Know It Needed
Welcome back to The Stack Unpacked. If JavaScript is the language that runs the web, TypeScript is...
Choosing a Framework is Hard… Here’s the Shortcut
This isn’t our next official episode of The Stack Unpacked (that one’s about TypeScript), but let’s...
JavaScript: The Language That Runs the Web
Welcome back to The Stack Unpacked. Do you sometimes find yourself spending more time debugging...
Weather Where: A Weather Dashboard with KendoReact
From Weather & Wonder ➝ Weather Where: Evolving My KendoReact Weather App This is a...
EventHub — A KendoReact-Powered Event Booking Platform
This is my submission for the KendoReact Free Components Challenge. What I Built Meet...
Then vs Now: The State of Software Engineering
Welcome to The Stack Unpacked. This is a new series where I’ll be unpacking the stacks, tools, and...
Week 2 – Building the Landing Page
This week was all about starting work on the Landing Page. I wanted a clean, simple page to explain...
Week 1: Picking a Stack, Breaking Things, Learning Fast
I want to document my journey creating a Web App, from start to finish. I will cover the stacks I...
Just Between Us: An annon message board.
This is a submission for the KendoReact Free Components Challenge. What I Built I created...
One small step for a Dev, one giant leap for 2025
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025. As the new year...