React Hooks Deep Dive: useReducer
This post is a part of React Hooks Deep Dive, a series where we'll explore each of React's hooks. We'll define what problems hooks solve and…
Oct 17, 2019Hi, I'm Nick Nish.
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Production-ready React Modal with useState and portals
Modals are one of the most common UI elements, but they can be a total pain to write without the use of external UI libraries. In this post…
Oct 13, 2019Favorite Newsletters of 2019
Hey, you savvy developer and/or creative person! We all know that email newsletters have made a big comeback! Newsletters are a great way…
Oct 10, 2019React Hooks Deep Dive: useState
This post is a part of React Hooks Deep Dive, a series where we’ll explore each of React’s hooks. We’ll define what problems hooks solve and…
Oct 7, 2019React Hooks Deep Dive: Introduction
This post kicks off React Hooks Deep Dive, a series where we'll explore each of these hooks. We'll define what problems they solve and show…
Sep 30, 2019Create a React Currency Input
This blog is all about solving problems and today I want to explore a common problem of building a reusable currency input. This input…
Sep 6, 2019Apps I Use 2019
On my previous, now offline blog nicknish.blog, I created an Apps I Use page that showed my apps that I use every day (inspired by Tim…
Sep 3, 2019Using Notion Templates to Create a Weekly Agenda
My previous post What Makes Notion Great was about my favorite features of Notion.so and what makes it an incredible productivity tool…
Sep 1, 2019React Router: Authenticated Routes
This post will cover how to create a higher-order component that ensures specific subroutes require authentication. For a primer on react…
Aug 28, 2019What Makes Notion Great
Twelve years ago I sent a few feature requests to the Evernote team via their forums. I asked for Markdown, standard text formatting, and…
Aug 26, 2019Retrospective: Rock Bottom Records
Rock Bottom Records was previously known as Bottomfeeder Records. This post and adjacent portfolio page has been updated to account for the…
May 30, 2019Explain It Like I'm 5: API
API is short for Application Programming Interface. An interface is simply a predefined way to work with a tool. That tool can be a 3rd…
Jul 13, 2018Explain It Like I'm 5: NodeJS
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine – nodejs.org/en/about That's a whole lot of terminology so let's…
Jul 11, 2018Explain It Like I'm 5: NPM
NPM stands for Node Package Manager. What is a package manager? Instead of always programming everything from scratch, a package manager…
Jul 10, 2018Explain It Like I'm 5: Frontend, Backend (& Full Stack)
Frontend (also spelled Front End, Front-End) refers to Frontend Development. The frontend's responsibilities lie primarily in displaying…
Jul 9, 2018Explain It Like I'm 5: Version Control (Git, Subversion, Mercurial)
A version control system, or VCS, tracks the history of changes as people and teams collaborate on projects together. As the project evolves…
Jul 8, 2018Explain It Like I'm 5: Servers
A server is simply a computer, not very different than the one you're using. It might look uglier, spit hot air, and only get touched once a…
Jul 6, 2018Explain It Like I'm 5: Scripts
Note: This may seem ridiculously fundamental, but no one ever explicitly told me what this was. That is partly this series goal, to address…
Jul 5, 2018Explain It Like I'm 5 Series: Introduction
This series explains software development and programming concepts in their most simple (by simple, I don't mean abstract) terms. The title…
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