Aphinya is a skilled tech writer with field experience in software development, agile, and fullstack JavaScript. She is a dev advocate and community builder, helping others navigate their dev journey.
It’s easy to learn how to code — especially in JavaScript. Once you’ve got things running, we tend not to look back and see how we can make things better. We move forward, onwards, and upwards — to the next project, ticket, and feature release. We code tirelessly, recycling what...
A quick rundown guide without the lingo and frills Docker. It’s a little blue whale with a container sitting on its back. We hear about it from various places but it’s usually just left to the DevOps guy to deal with. Or perhaps you’ve tried to pick...
We’ve all done it — deleted a file we shouldn’t have, merged things that aren’t supposed to be on the main branch, accidentally pushed up sensitive information, committing to the wrong branch… GIT is fantastic when things go as planned — but not so much when it comes to...
Visual Studio Code comes with an in-built command-line tool that you can use. To bring it up, use the following key command/keyboard shortcut: CTRL + SHIFT + ~ This will bring up the terminal in your Visual Studio Code as per the example screenshot below: From here, you can run whatever command...
In a lot of MacOS and Linux-based tutorials, we see people create empty files using touch command. For example, they just write: touch index.js And it creates a new file. However, there is no touch in Windows command line. The only alternative we have is a long-form command called...
So, you’ve got a day job. But you’re starting to feel drained from it. Or perhaps you just feel stuck in your code — unable to learn anything new or feel that spark that you once had. You also need/want a bit of cash on the side for...
