Upstream vs Downstream Services
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Write the docs first!
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Teaching people to fish
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To understand anything, keep popping the hood.
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Write explicit type guards
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Prefer having technical discussions in public
July 30, 2020Why you should prefer having technical discussions in public rather than private messages.
Don't rethrow `new Error(error)`!
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Asking for help in Slack/IRC
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React Server Side Rendering with Hypernova
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