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Exploring code, AI, and web development through 182 posts.

2026

From Fresh Mac to Productive in 30 Minutes

3rd January 2026 6 min read

2025

My 2025 Year in Review

30th December 2025 8 min read

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 15: Goose Sub-Recipes

21st December 2025 4 min read

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 14: Agent Skills

19th December 2025 5 min read

Advent of AI - Day 13: Goose Terminal Integration

19th December 2025 5 min read

Advent of AI - Day 12: MCP Sampling

17th December 2025 5 min read

Advent of AI - Day 11: Goose Subagents

17th December 2025 5 min read

My Newsletter: Growth, Fun, Slow & Steady

15th December 2025 3 min read

What are AI Evals?

13th December 2025 5 min read

Advent of AI 2025 - Day 7: Goose Recipes

10th December 2025 18 min read

I Switched Shell History Tools. Here's Why

4th December 2025 6 min read

Introducing the dev.to MCP server

29th July 2025 4 min read

Git Worktrees: Git Done Right

21st July 2025 4 min read

Getting McFly Working on Ubuntu Server

26th May 2025 4 min read

The RayCast Port Manager Extension

6th February 2025 2 min read

I’m joining Pomerium!

13th January 2025 2 min read

2024

2023

TypeScript: Infer Types to Avoid Explicit Types

21st November 2023 5 min read

Boost productivity with the GitHub CLI

14th November 2023 10 min read

GitHub Actions: A Maintainer's Best Friend

31st October 2023 4 min read

Getting Saucy: I Joined OpenSauced!

23rd September 2023 2 min read

Supercharge your Repository with Code Owners

21st September 2023 3 min read

How to debug a Firefox add-on (extension)

17th August 2023 3 min read

Kettlebells & Code: Dev Health

9th August 2023 2 min read

Have questions about ESLint?

2nd April 2023 1 min read

Where do you find community?

19th February 2023 4 min read

2022

Non-tech Reading Recommendations?

26th December 2022 1 min read

My 2022 Year in Review

24th December 2022 6 min read

App to grab your Revue newsletters

13th November 2022 1 min read

Revue being phased out by Twitter

10th November 2022 1 min read

What is The Collab Lab?

26th October 2022 1 min read

Repurposing Content for Content Creation

16th October 2022 2 min read

Funding in open source

9th October 2022 5 min read

Hacktoberfest 2022: Preptember!

25th September 2022 2 min read

More engagement through series on dev.to

11th September 2022 1 min read

Live reloading in Rust

3rd September 2022 1 min read

What is Deno?

14th July 2022 8 min read

Learning Resources for TypeScript

10th July 2022 2 min read

Speech-to-text with Deepgram

22nd June 2022 1 min read

Enabling keyboard navigation on your Mac

2nd April 2022 1 min read

Strongly Typed JSON in TypeScript

1st April 2022 2 min read

Productivity Tools I Use

29th March 2022 2 min read

How to Use a React Hook in a Class Component

28th March 2022 2 min read

npx gitignore

26th March 2022 1 min read

My Impact at Forem

24th March 2022 4 min read

2021

My 2021 Year in Review

31st December 2021 5 min read

Frontend Developer Resources 2022

28th December 2021 8 min read

How I Do Code Reviews

9th December 2021 4 min read

An NFT based game

28th October 2021 2 min read

I built my first dApp!

19th October 2021 2 min read

Getting Started with Streaming on Twitch

28th July 2021 5 min read

Getting Started with Regular Expressions

18th July 2021 4 min read

I started a newsletter!

12th June 2021 1 min read

Pairing with Meg Gutshall

10th June 2021 1 min read

I Started a JavaScript Stream on Twitch!

30th May 2021 1 min read

Pairing with Jhey Tompkins

12th May 2021 1 min read

Learning Rust

18th April 2021 1 min read

My Twitch Stream Setup

17th April 2021 2 min read

Pairing with Community Member Seth Hall

18th March 2021 1 min read

Storybook Talk / Live Coding

16th March 2021 2 min read

Pairing with Community Member Jono Yeong

19th February 2021 1 min read

Pairing with Community Member Dan Ott

3rd February 2021 2 min read

Pairing with Community Member Rafi

22nd January 2021 2 min read

2020

My 2020 Year in Review

31st December 2020 6 min read

Testing Preact/React Portals with Testing Library

30th November 2020 9 min read

Pairing with Community Member Marie Antons

2nd November 2020 1 min read

Pairing with Community Member Eliot Sanford

19th October 2020 1 min read

See the big picture

30th August 2020 2 min read

Not Captain Obvious

3rd August 2020 2 min read

Let's Pair during a Live Coding Session!

14th July 2020 2 min read

Changelog: Frontend Edition

24th June 2020 5 min read

Changelog: DEV has Some Stories for You

22nd May 2020 2 min read

DEV as a Headless CMS for your Gatsby Site

15th April 2020 3 min read

I've Started to Live Code on Twitch for DEV

1st April 2020 2 min read

Pock an awesome utility for the Mac Touchbar

21st January 2020 1 min read

Frontend Developer Resources 2020

6th January 2020 11 min read

My 2019 Year in Review

2nd January 2020 17 min read

2019

Cool Rust and WebAssembly Resource

7th December 2019 1 min read

Evaluating the new Microsoft Edge

23rd November 2019 3 min read

Need Help Picking a Tabletop Colour

28th October 2019 1 min read

Toast Messages

24th October 2019 1 min read

You do not need to use the classnames package

23rd October 2019 2 min read

My Hacktoberfest 2019

15th October 2019 1 min read

My Shell Aliases

11th October 2019 1 min read

dev.to’s Frontend: a brain dump in one act

23rd April 2019 8 min read

HTML Forms: Back to Basics

28th March 2019 3 min read

Ink: React for CLIs

9th March 2019 1 min read

Showcase your Gatsby Site

28th February 2019 1 min read

An Enhanced TypeScript Playground

26th February 2019 1 min read

git-history

13th February 2019 1 min read

TypeScript Tips Part II: Declaration Merging

12th February 2019 3 min read

dom-chef - Build DOM Elements with JSX

2nd February 2019 1 min read

TypeScript Tips Part I

25th January 2019 3 min read

Any contribution to Open Source is valuable

22nd January 2019 2 min read

The CSS mask property

9th January 2019 2 min read

Take chances and stand out

5th January 2019 5 min read

📦 webpack secrets

1st January 2019 1 min read

2018

scoped-style

30th December 2018 1 min read

My 2018 Year in Review

29th December 2018 3 min read

Can you create the great Redux store?

8th September 2018 1 min read

Setting up Storybook for Preact

2nd September 2018 3 min read

My Git Aliases

26th August 2018 4 min read

Getting Started with Storybook for React

26th March 2018 3 min read

Probably another Battleship board on Code Pen

9th February 2018 1 min read

A 💩 Notification Code Pen

27th January 2018 1 min read

Have a Handy JS Snippet You Want to Share?

23rd January 2018 2 min read

A Simple ⭐ Rating Code Pen

19th January 2018 1 min read

Quick Hulk Code Pen

13th January 2018 1 min read

My Mac Setup

12th January 2018 9 min read

2018 Resolutions

3rd January 2018

2017

My Visual Studio Code Setup

23rd December 2017 6 min read

Consider Using TypeScript

8th October 2017 5 min read

Hi, I'm Nick Taylor

12th March 2017 1 min read

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