A professional full stack software engineering blog.

Chris is thinking about St. Patrick's Day!

Detailed full stack software tutorials, walk-throughs, and more: battle-tested and directly from the front lines of industrial, startup, and SaaS product full stack software development. Learn techniques, patterns, and code that I've used on my dozen+ products I've built in my 10+ year software career.

I'm on a mission to educate 1,000,000^* full stack software engineers around the world. Build your skills with hundreds of hours of video content, hundreds of pages of tutorials, and more.

UPDATE JANUARY 2024: We've done it! A heartfelt thanks to everyone who has visited the blog, taken a course, or otherwise supported my work.

^*652,000 Stack Overflow + 362,479 Medium + 67,566 YouTube + 27,000 This Blog :) + 4,725 Udemy + 708 Skillshare + 792 Substack + 193 codedamn + 19 tutorialspoint + 10 Newline = 1,115,492/1,000,000 = 111.5%!!!!^✞

^✞Numbers last updated June 2024

Most Recent Post:

My Newest SaaS Product: CodeVideo

March 14, 2025

Launching CodeVideo after over two years in the making: this is the story of a domain exploration that kept growing… and growing… and growing!

Codevideo Ffmpeg Gatsby Golang Netlify Puppeteer React SaaS

Other Recent Posts:

LaTeX and pandoc: The Cryptic 'Counter Too Large' Error

January 15, 2025

A debugging-to-solution journey through LaTeX's alphabetical limits!

LaTeX Pandoc Writing

Goals for 2025

December 30, 2024

2025 in Review This was a huge year. A HUGE year. First, we moved. (Yes, if you know the pain, you know.) Then, our daughter was born. All…

Why The Singularity Is Impossible — Or Rather, Why It's Just a Bad Word In General

November 20, 2024

Too many people not reading enough books and not understanding what they are arguing about.

AGI AI Singularity

Vanishingly Few Developers Can Build an Entire App From Start to Finish — Are You One of Them?

November 15, 2024

Yep, I'm dropping truth bombs!

Applications Development Startup System Design

Why LLMs Will Never Be AGI

June 19, 2024

The hype is unfortunately not real. A software engineer's — not humanities or philosopher's — take on the alphabet soup: LLMs, AI, AGI, and ASI.

AGI LLMs Machine Learning NLP

Popular Posts:

A Keyboard Avoiding View for React Native in 2021

September 22, 2021

A Copy-and-Paste Solution that Supports all iOS and Android keyboards!

React React Hook React Native TypeScript UI/UX

Back By Popular Demand: React + Redux + Shopify + TypeScript Boilerplate

July 21, 2020

Now with TypeScript: Strongly typed E-commerce for all!

React Redux Shopify TypeScript

C# .NET Core and TypeScript: Using Generics and LINQ to Secure and Filter Operations on Your JSONPatchDocuments

November 23, 2020

Full stack: React with TypeScript frontend, .NET backend!

C#.NET TypeScript

Let's Build a Snazzy Animated Sticky Footer For GDPR Compliance!

April 19, 2021

Leveraging react-reveal, react-cookie, and Bootstrap styles.

Bootstrap Gatsby React TypeScript

The Last Bitbucket Pipelines Tutorial You'll Ever Need: Mastering CI and CD

February 1, 2021

An incredibly powerful tool that saves time, headaches, and much more!

Automation Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD

Welp, I Did It. I Quit.

July 25, 2018

Thoughts of yet another full-time worker going full-time freelance / tinkerer / creative / nomad. ***Note: this post is mirrored on Medium…

View All Posts

Post Series:

Clean React TypeScript Hooks

Clean CRUD APIs

Things I'm Working On / In:

C#Gatsby Golang React Rust TypeScript WPF

Posts By Tag:

ABAP AGI AI Algorithms Apache API APIs Applications Auth0 Automation Bash Bitbucket Pipelines Bitcoin Blazor Blog Meta Books Bootstrap Burnout C#CI/CD Clean CRUD APIs Clean React TypeScript Hooks Cloud Cloud Architecture Code Organization Codevideo Companies Crypto Data Data Challenge Development DevOps Docker Enums Environment Expo Ffmpeg Functional Programming Gatsby Generics Github GitHub Golang Google Cloud Platform gRPC Hackathon Hacktoberfest Integration Tests JavaScript Jest Kestrel Kubernetes LaTeX Learning Series Life LLMs Mac Machine Learning Magento Markets Microservices Miscellaneous .NET Netlify NGINX NLP Node Npm Object Oriented Programming Object-Relational Mapping Open Source OpenUI5 Package Pandoc Postgres PostgreSQL Products Puppeteer Python RAG React React Hook React Hooks React Native Redux Redux Toolkit Reflection SaaS Saas SAP SAPUI5 Server Side Rendering Serverless Shell Script Shopify Singularity Slack Software Graveyard Startup Stripe Substack Supabase Sustainability System Design Tampermonkey TDD Testing TypeScript TypeScript Generics UI/UX Unit Tests Utils VM Webhook Webpack WebSockets Windows WPF Writing Yearly Goals Zapier

You made it all the way down here?! Well then, please enjoy these three ducks:

   _
__(.)=
\___)

   _
__(.)<
\___)

   _
__(.)<
\___)