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You cannot win with physical beauty alone…

Affiliate Programs

Raycast

Content Calendar

Interview Prep, Data Structures & Algorithms, Resume Optimization, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Developer Productivity (Keyboard Shortcuts), Chrome Extensions, Developer Tools

How to make the web a little nicer for yourself as a developer: simplest thing that can work strategy. problem: issues with size of quick search. locating the fix using devtools. making a note. starting the simplest chrome extension. a boilerplate. loading it.
How I manage SSH Keys (GitHub/OpenSource, 9-5 Work, Contract Client Projects, Side Projects, Experiments)
asdf (node, ruby, python, go)
contracting, agencies, etc...
What it's really like to be a software engineer (pager duty, 12 - 16 hours of work trying to solve a hard problem)

What to write about? What am I working on right now? What challenges am I facing?

Layoff
Job Search
Where to look for jobs?
My portfolio...but, I want to build real products
Upskilling; YouTube, ChatGPT, Notion (issues: no offline support, need paid plan to get version history), Evernote (issues: search sucks, lack of code snippet support, need Premium subscription to get version history) , GitHub Gists (issues: no ability to share securely, no offline support)
Apps I have on my computer (brew install notion)
Command-Line Programs
macOS programs: screenshots of program, settings, how to use (developer setup guide, but sprinkle here too) -> promote the guide
Browser Settings: Chrome extensions, Chrome extension settings (other browsers?)

LinkedIn Bio Link Offer Ideas

LinkedIn Featured Section Ideas

The Ultimate Developer Setup Guide for Mac ($0) - In Exchange for e-mail address
The Ultimate LinkedIn Banner Template Pack ($100)
The Ultimate Command-Line Reference Guide ($0) - In Exchange for e-mail address
... ($1,000)
The Ultimate LinkedIn Profile Optimization Handbook ($0) - In Exchange for e-mail address
... ($10,000)

Everyday Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcut for Today

I've learned that one of the best ways to learn new things is to consume online video courses, including those on YouTube and LinkedIn learning. I like to be as efficient as possible when consuming online videos, so, I typically have my markdown notes ready to go and my fingers on the keyboard ready to take notes. I've noticed that the more videos I've consumed, the more efficient my note taking process has gotten. I've come to rely on keyboard shortcuts a lot more. In order to help others become as efficient as I've become, I'll be sharing one new keyboard shortcut per day. Why One? I'm glad you asked. The reason I'm sharing one at a time is, it takes time for keyboard shortcuts to really sink in. I don't believe we learn keyboard shortcuts all at once. I believe we get used to relying on one keyboard shortcut at a time. We use it a little bit at first, then, we use it some more. Then, we kind of forget about it. Then, once we notice the lack of efficiency, we start to consider using the keyboard shortcut again.

Tab Switching

command + shift + [ (or {): Go to the tab 1 spot to the left of the current tab (or go to the last tab if you're currently on the first tab)
command + shift + } (or }): Go to the tab 1 spot to the right of the current tab (or go to the first tab if you're currently on the last tab)

macOS Text Editing Shortcuts

Chrome Web Browser

command + shift + T
option + command + j: open/close developer tools console

YouTube

Everyday, Throughout The Day, Daily Post Ideas

(Morning) 1 Keyboard Shortcut
(Mid Day) 1 Unix/Linux Command-Line Program Breakdown (common usages) - save the deep dive for newsletter
(Evening) LinkedIn Profile Optimization Tip

1-Time Per Week, Daily Post Ideas

Probably want to focus on niche: Job Search/Resume/LinkedIn Profile, Building Production Apps, JavaScript/TypeScript Tips, LeetCode Style Problems, Other Interview Problems, System Design Breakdowns

Cheat Sheets

The various types of diagrams (Database Schema Diagram, Sequence Diagram, ...)
Keyboard Shortcuts: macOS text editing, macOS navigating the operating system, Chrome Web Browser, YouTube in Browser, GitHub in Browser
Cron Cheat Sheet
Unicode Cheat Sheet

Anatomy of a Docker Command

Run Redis Stack on Docker

My Software Engineering Career Exploded after I learned ...

How To Quit Vim (:q, ⇧zz, ⌃[, esc, esc :wq) -> So, you really only need to know two concepts. The concept of escape which you can do two ways: You can press the ESC key, or you can press control+[. That takes you back to normal mode, even if you press it multiple times. Now that you're in normal mode, you can can type a colon command :wq or you can just type the equivalent ZZ (hold shift ⇧ while pressing the z key twice). You can also just do :q! if you don't care about saving anything.
How Timezones Work
How Regular Expressions Work
How Unicode Works
How Big O Notation Works
The Secret Hack To Efficiently Learning Data Structures & Algorithms
How Software Interviews Work

Data Structures & Algorithms Applications

Autocomplete & Prefix Search (Trie, N-Grams...)

New Features

TypeScript

Linux Commands

Built-In Shell Commands

N Commands for doing X

Kickoff

Refactoring

Code Spikes

Get your ideas out
Sometimes the code spike is what you needed to figure out the next piece of the functionality

How I know when it's time to refactor...

I know it's time to refactor similar to the way I know when it's time to sweep the floor...I know when it's time to sweep the floor because I keep stepping on things; and, it's annoying.

Similarly, when I go to read the codebase, I know it's time to refactor when I find it hard to read. If it doesn't read well, or, I look at a filename, a class, a method, or a function and the name doesn't immediately tell me what it's doing or it's a bit confusing, it's time to refactor.

Wait, what about "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"? Yeah, that's all well and good, until things need to change. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" sounds good, until you need to add functionality or requirements change.

No, yelling at the product owner and telling them to go away isn't a satisfactory answer. Sorry, but, not sorry.

JavaScript/TypeScript

Side-by-Side React JSX Component vs Web Component

JavaScript Templates / Boilerplates

Web Component in JavaScript
Web Component in TypeScript

My Developer Setup

Key Remapping

Remap "Caps Lock" to "Control"

CTRL + l (clear screen)

SSH Keys

Generating
Naming Convention (Why I never use ida_{rsa|dsa} as the name of my key

AI Pair Programming Assistants

AI Pair Programming Assistants

Terminal & Shell

Default Terminal
Terminal Options (iTerm, Alacritty, ...)
Tmux
readline & keybindings (emacs, vi, search forward/backward, fzf)

If I had to start learning to write software again...

I would not choose Vim as my editor

...but I would learn vim's basic keybindings

Building In Public (Great for Personal Branding)

I've been fascinated for a while with the trend of building things in public. I've been wanting to participate; however, I've stood on the sidelines for quite a while waiting for the best time to double-dutch into the game. It's hard to admit, but, I think it's partially imposter syndrome and partially a bit of perfectionism; and, I'm starting to think they have a lot to do with one another. Perhaps imposter syndrome is a bit narcissitic. If it is, then, all the better for me to start doing something about it.

I am committed to sharing my experience building things.

For me.
For you. So you can see that's actually pretty easy.

I build the products that I wish existed. Building in public is hard. There are probably lots of other reasons, but, the ones that hit the dome immediately are:

It's a super vulnerable act. The possibility of failure is real and it's not easy to be open with a bunch of strangers on the internet.
Someone might steal your idea.
...

Who's Building In Public

Business :: Startups :: Build In Public :: People

Browser Extensions

Naming Tech: Insightful Tips (ChatGPT)

Browser Extension Ideas

When I have an idea for a chrome/browser extension, I typically do something called "Feature Primitive". A "Feature Primitive" is the smallest unit of functionality possible to make a feature a reality. I "Feature Primitives" when prototyping or spiking a feature out. When it comes to chrome/browser extensions, I typically spike out "Feature Primitives" in the devtools console. It's a way to think through a feature's implementation to (1) see if it's possible (2) decide if it's even worth building. When I was spiking through the idea of building "Conversation Titles for ChatGPT", the first "Feature Primitive" I worked though was to simply see if I could locate a good parent element to insert the title into. This meant, document.querySelector('some css selector').

Conversation Titles for ChatGPT

What tech I used to code my new Browser Extension in 2024
Not sure where to start when building a program? I've learned that the best way to start, whether building a chrome extension, mobile app, command-line program, or library is to start with the cold hard facts. Wait...What? What facts? Yeah, the facts are the immutible laws that govern how the thing you're build for operates. Say it's a Chrome Extension...How does the target website currently operate? I take notes on all the tiny bits of information that website gives away for free. (1) What is the URL structure? (2) How does the UI look before and after user input? (3) What happens if I replace a lowercase letter for an uppercase equivalent in the URL? (4)
What can we assert about this page using just this URL-based regular expression? src/core/url.ts
Naming Things Is Hard; Unless ... I still feel the pain from that period in time in tech when it was super popular to name shiney new tech things with names like
Creating an extension icon using Midjourney

Press `/` To Search

I believe with all my heart that the best software is built when the developer (1) is completely in touch with the problem at hand (2) ...

Resume Optimization

Interview Readiness / Interview Prep

DSA
Big-O Notation
System Design
Database Design

UI/UX design for Software Engineers

Color Choices
Fonts / Typography
Spacing

What I've Learned about LinkedIn Profile Optimization

What I've Learned about designing LinkedIn Banners

I don't see the point in having a non-optimized profile photo, then, yet another photo of your face in the banner. Why not completely max out the profile photo and then use as much space as possible in the banner displaying how you add value? Of course, for public speakers, I can see how adding a stage photo might be a good look.

...

Technical Choices

How I choose databases to use for software development

PostgreSQL
Redis (Low Latency)

Creators You Should Follow for...

Building In Public

Marketing - Jobs To Be Done Framework

React Native

Data Engineering

...

On API Development

NOTE: Use these content drops as an opportunity to update notes and further research the topic. For example, the initial drop can be a simple list of architectural styles. It can be a text-post with a carousel; then, all of a sudden, you're doing a quick screencast of how to consume an API, then a screencast on how to create one for others to consume, how to document one, etc. Clips from the longer form content can be dropped as reels and tiktoks.

API Architectural Styles

In The $SHELL Tips

Changing Shells

chsh
I changed my shell, but, homebrew (brew) isn't working anymore... (~/.zshrc)

wilmooreiii@innersOnly-MacBook-Pro Downloads % cat ~/.zshrc
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
. /opt/homebrew/opt/asdf/libexec/asdf.sh

JavaScript Tips

X ways to define a JavaScript function
X retry strategies

Console.*

A Console.* reference

Why I use X ...

Why I use console.debug more than console.log (I used to use console.log or debug) - set log level - users likely wont have this log level set
Why I Almost Always Use Function Parameter Destructuring Over Positional Arguments

TypeScript Tips

Software I Use

Chrome Extensions I have to have...

Software Engineering :: Web :: Browser :: Extension :: Chrome

Everyday Uses

GoFullPage: Full Page Screen Capture
Taste
Conversation Titles for ChatGPT

Great for Job Hunting

Teal

In defense of ...

In defense of code duplication...

I recently learned that...

I recently learned that that Bluetooth got its name and logo from a Scandinavian king named Harald Gormsson

Design Scientist

I recently learned that the preview.app can seemlessly remove image backgrounds

I recently learned that it's possible to embed a playable MP4 in a GitHub Markdown page

Content Creation :: Stock :: Music :: Marketplace :: Audio Jungle (envatomarket) :: Advocacy :: Screen Studio

In order to stay well-rounded as a Full-Stack Software Engineer, I follow these top performers in `Data Engineering` on LinkedIn

What I've learned through building and shipping lots of web apps, apis, chrome extensions, and mobile apps

... is that there are no universal shortcuts or patterns that are always applicable

... is that

How I ...

How I manage to stand out amongst other candidates in Job Interviews

Build Production-Level Software in Public

How I Built a Chrome Browser Extension in Three Weeks

Stack (TypeScript, CRXJS, Vite, Visual Studio Code, Figma, ...)
Project Directory Structure

How I use the "Digital Color Meter" app to get values for the web

How I recall the value I bring to a software development team

How I setup my mac for software development

Software Engineering :: Operating Systems :: macOS :: Developer Setup :: mac.dev

How I come up with ideas for software to build

Use lots of software
Take lots of notes on software
Keep a list of ideas

How I use a single tool to manage all of the programming language I use

asdf

How I Master Command Line Efficiency: See Readline's Keybindings in Action!

Software Engineering :: Operating Systems :: Linux :: Shell :: Bash :: Command-Line Editor :: Readline

"How I use ChatGPT to save time on my video note-taking process ⏳📝 See how I efficiently create markdown checkbox lists from YouTube timestamps with ease and steal my prompt"

How I generate hard passwords on the command-line

Here are X software tools that I use to generate hard passwords

How I organize every program I write

tests
translations
feature toggles
telemetry for usage metrics

How I organize every Chrome Extension I write

tests
translations
feature toggles
telemetry for usage metrics

How I work around ChatGPT's Title Renaming Bug

Amtrak: National Rail Service (ChatGPT)

How I Converted a JavaScript Library on NPM TypeScript

CJS Module to ESM Module format
TSConfig
Type Safety via Generics: selectn("path.to.retrieve", withinThisDataObject) vs selectn<String>("path.to.retrieve", withinThisDataObject)

How I Use Markdown To Take Notes

Video Notes
Screenshots (use preview to ensure pasting into Gist is a markdown img vs HTML image tag)

How I Use ChatGPT to Quickly Take Notes on YouTube Videos using Markdown

How I start almost every browser extension project...

Here are N Xs to use for inspiration

Here are 3 GitHub Readme pages for inspiration

Software Engineering :: Source Control :: VCS :: Git :: Managed Hosting Platform :: GitHub :: README

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