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My childhood friend always said that retelling others’ secrets would give you a terrible sickness. While you can’t make your application sick, you can accidentally give away API keys, login credentials, endpoint information, etc. if you do not keep them stored safely. This article is part don’t do what we did and part here’s what…

One of the items on my engineer growth bucket list, so to speak, was implementing an automated test suite and this past week I had the opportunity to cross that item off the list by using GitHub Actions. First off, GitHub Actions are basically tools for integrating some kind of tool or process with GitHub.…

Some phrases you often hear as a first year engineer are “copypasta” and “pattern-matching”. These are just ways to say “find code that achieves the same thing, copy it, and change it up to fit your needs.” It’s with good reason that this method is taught so much because it turns out this is precisely…

The first thing people ask when you mention being an intern at NASA is how did you land that? Then they quickly follow that up with and how much does it pay? I may not be able to share too much about the second part but I can definitely offer some insight into things like…

Regardless of whether or not you have heard of responsive design I want to take a moment to share some learnings I’ve had over the course of the last 3 years that I’ve been working as a software engineer. Despite the word “design” being a part of the name, this actually is geared towards engineers…

I’ve been a software engineer for nearly 3 years at Remix (now owned by Via) and I often ask myself do I know what I’m doing? Yep, I’m talking about imposter syndrome. It’s that sneaky little beast that causes you anxiety and makes you feel like an outsider even though you are perfectly qualified to…