A professional full stack software engineering blog.

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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:

Fun with MCP - an "O RLY?" Book Generator MCP Tool

July 12, 2025
Perfect to use at almost any moment in a software engineer's life, this tool generates "O RLY?" books from just a simple query.

Other Recent Posts:

Two of My Favorite Custom MCP Tools I Use Every Day

May 11, 2025
A step-by-step guide to creating 'list_repo_locations' and 'issue_terminal_command' tools that unlock fully agentic workflows with Claude Desktop.

How To Manage Multiple Environments with MCP

May 10, 2025
A simple but effective solution for juggling multiple environments with MCP servers.

🎂 I've Been Building Software for 13 Years. Here's 13 Bits of Wisdom Observed During My Career

April 14, 2025
Heavily influenced by recency bias of AI and LLMs, here are 13 bits of wisdom, some positive, and some negative, of software-related topics I hope I can impart to anyone in the software world willing to read it.

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

January 15, 2025
A debugging-to-solution journey through LaTeX's alphabetical limits!

Popular Posts:

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

July 21, 2020
Now with TypeScript: Strongly typed E-commerce for all!

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!

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

April 19, 2021
Leveraging react-reveal, react-cookie, and Bootstrap styles.

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!

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…

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