GraphQL is sweeping the engineering world by storm. If you've been wanting to learn how to use it, this article will help you get your first server up in no time.

Building Your First GraphQL Server

It's easy to lose track of what really fulfills us. We want stress and problems to disappear, and are frustrated when they don't. We have to get to heart of what really matters in life.

The Pursuit of Personal Fulfillment

We all hit walls in our personal lives, and it's those moments where we persistence and grit the most. This article talks about how to make that happen.

The Pursuit of Persistence and Grit

If you've been wanting to learn React Native, you've come to the right place. This walkthrough will teach you to build a React Native weather app. 🌧

Building Your First React Native App

Get started with the fundamentals of TypeScript (including types and classes) so that everyone will want to be like you when they grow up.

How to Become a TypeScript Badass

Sometimes, happiness doesn't seem achievable. This article is on how to stay positive even when things are incredibly tough.

The Importance of Positivity

If you want to dip your toes into the world of back-end servers, this article will teach you the basics of setting up your first with JavaScript, Node, and ExpressJS.

How to Build Your First Node Server

It’s time to talk about something super awesome that might just change you spiritually. Styled Components are an awesome way to write CSS-in-JS for your front-end components.

The Basics of Styled Components

I want to talk about motivation: what it is, why it might look very different from what you think, and how to get it back if you feel like you’ve lost it.

Finding Motivation in Chaos

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This is what I’m seeing from non-tech friends and family too.

I think more competitors to Facebook’s suite of products will succeed in the next few years purely differentiated on “Not owned by Zuck.” https://t.co/pBAj0RQlKx

@justsml @clmbr 🔥🔥🔥 Dan!!! Congrats!

@ProfJonesMusic @theblackkeys It’s amazing

@jdecked I was briefly dead for a few hours yesterday

@lafriedel Yesterday was rough. But I feel great today and even snuck in a run.

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