.NET Conf 2020 was happening this week. We were shown tips and tricks using C# 9, Blazor, and all the performance improvements we are getting with .NET 5. One update that stuck with me is the new Many-to-Many syntax coming to Entity Framework. Let’s take a look at what a…

React reached a new major version on October 20th (https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/10/20/react-v17.html) and 4 days later one of our favorite React scaffolding tools Create-React-App followed suit with the release of version 4, that includes React 17. I dug through the features highlighted in the respective blogs and followed PRs to summarize all…

You are in the middle of your studies to become a software developer or just landed your first job - Congratulations 🥳 — Let me share some recommendations that I have received from mentors in the past, thoughts I have shared with mentees, and ideas that I wish someone would…

I remember the first time I had the requirement to build a timer using React. I was just starting out with React and I wrote it the way I would expect as a JavaScript developer; just to find out that it did not work. Weird behaviours such as variables that…