This time is different. "Clean slate. Solid foundations. This time I will build things the right way."

I'm heading for a new adventure!

This blog post is to share a TypeScript tip I've picked up while creating a new programming language: type narrowing. Type narrowing gives TypeScript more information about the type being narrowed, and allows the TypeScript compiler to be more helpful to you. When used responsibly, narrowing types can make your code easier to understand.

Here is today's 1:1 topic -- finding success in software engineering interviews. The person I spoke to is new to tech and has been feeling frustrated understanding how to maximize their chances of success. This is largely because they haven't received much feedback on what to improve on post-interview. There is much that isn't right about the tech interview process, but I'll save that post for another time. This guide is for maximizing success in that interview that's coming up for you next week.

I recently moved my blog from Medium to a self-managed blog built with Gatsby, then deployed on Netlify. After a few weeks of fiddling around, I feel like I've landed on something I'm mostly happy with. I've also automated a bunch of things like performance testing with lighthouse which have made the experience quite great.

I recently tweeted that I was starting an experiment. 26 people applied to try this out! Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be speaking to as many of them as I can in one-on-one (1:1) meetings over Google Hangouts. With their permission, I hope to be able to share some of the advice I've given them with you. Here is today's topic - growing as an engineer in the context of becoming a tech lead.

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Learn to welcome fear. Learn from fear. No one learns and develops skills in a bubble.

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If you haven’t used Slack already, it’s an awesome chat app for teams that’s similar to IRC. I’ve been using it for a while now, and I’ve…

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