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A Primer on Agile for Web Development

Jul 22, 20215 min read 29 views

Many of you will likely work in some type of Agile environment in your career. While there are many methodologies, it's important to understand a few of the key concepts that are shared across them. This article will serve as a brief primer on Agile....

A Primer on Agile for Web Development

A Guide to Customizing the Zsh Shell Prompt

Mar 11, 20219 min read 2.2K views

The goal of this article is to teach you just enough about the shell prompt to make some helpful customizations. What is the shell prompt? The prompt is the bit of text that shows up in our shells to indicate that we can interact with them. The prom...

A Guide to Web Development on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Jan 2, 20219 min read 191 views

This guide assumes you already have the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 installed. If that is not the case, I highly recommend you read through my previous article, A Guide to Installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Windows Terminal...

A Guide to Installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Windows Terminal

Dec 29, 20207 min read 283 views

As a developer that typically works on Mac or Linux, you will be disappointed with the out-of-the-box terminal in Windows. Lucky for us, Windows supports a fairly smooth Linux integration called the Windows Subsystem for Linux (or WSL for short). If ...

An Introduction to vue-markdown-editor

Dec 28, 20205 min read 88 views

One of the biggest challenges I faced while building Octo was the markdown editor. When it comes to implementing a markdown text input, there is usually one way to go about it: a plain text input field with an optional preview mode. This approach obv...

A Practical Guide to the Web Cryptography API

Sep 9, 20209 min read 287 views

Client-side encryption is a feature I had wanted to implement in octo for a while now. When it finally came time to tackle it, I was surprised at the sparse real-world examples on the topic. The documentation on MDN is robust, but it requires a lot o...