Joe Kaiser

Problem: How can I quickly and seamlessly see if an NPM package is out of date, and view the changelog? Bonus points if I don’t need to leave my IDE.

Woodworking has been one of my passions for about 5 years now. 99% of what I do is with hand tools - dimensioning wood, planing it smooth, joinery, everything. Some people think it is crazy, but I truly believe it has made me a better developer.

Technical books are a funny thing - most of them are out of date shortly after publishing. I can’t even begin to remember how many I have either donated or deleted from my digital library. The problem is simple. They don’t stay relevant in the fast-paced world that is software...

Do you want to know how to irritate software engineers? Break their focus. Much of what we do is problem-solving. Sometimes they are simple, but often they don’t have an obvious solution. We need to make sure we don’t show duplicate records in the list OK, I’ll change the query...

Developers don’t spend enough time thinking about their errors. I see too many projects that throw Error('invalid data') or even worse throw 'invalid data' 😱. That isn’t useful! Give me some context, bud.