A few months ago, I was approached by a recruiter telling me about this fully remote job at Karat that offers decent pay. If you haven't heard of Karat before, it is the world's largest interviewing company. They use a global network of professional software to conduct technical interviews for companies, some of which you may have heard of before: Robinhood, Indeed, Roblox, Coinbase and more. Of course, at the time, I didn't know this, but the recruiter hooked me on the idea of setting my hours to work part-time or full time. After receiving several emails, I finally decided to reach out to hear more about the role. The phone conversation assured me that the role was an excellent way to earn extra money and get interviewer experience. I wanted to do it part-time, so I could always stop on my terms if it got too demanding.

Are you thinking of switching jobs or moving to a different role altogether in 2022? Knowing what salary to ask for is always tricky since there are a lot of factors at play. But having a rough figure might at least put you in the right ballpark and avoid that mistake of saying yes to an underpaid job. I came by this list of salaries for different roles in the software development domain. From what I can tell the figures in these tables are pretty accurate. Hope you find it helpful!

Have you wondered how companies like Heroku, Netlify and Vercel host and run your applications on a single domain? Is that even safe? What if people try to set/get cookies in other people's sub-domain or root domain? I recently ran into this problem at work, and we ended up going down the rabbit hole of how it all works. I was pleasantly surprised by how it all works, so let's talk about it!

In a recent project, my team decided to use Mock Service Worker (MSW) in our unit tests. It was meant to be a very straightforward change since the documentation for MSW is pretty clear. I encountered a few errors along the way that had me scratching my head. I'm going to document them here, hopefully will help people in a similar situation.

If you are not aware, DigitalOcean now offers their own App Platform which works like Netlify or Vercel if you used those platforms before. If not, essentially you could connect your code repository and then these platforms will take care of the rest e.g. install dependencies, building the project and deploying it somewhere, host it, manage SSL certificates, custom domains, etc.

Following on from the previous blog post on How to setup Single Page Applications with Auth0 in the local environment without CORS issues, I noticed another area that is very vague in the official docs and thought I'd share my finding in this post. It turns out Auth0 provided everything we needed just didn't tell us how to use it.

I used Auth0 in a Single Page Application (SPA) side project recently, because I didn't want to spend the time to build all the auth related features e.g. password reset, sign up, etc. Surprisingly it was extremely painful to get it working locally due to HTTPS, CORS and localhost issues. In this blog post, I'll be walking my final setup with all of that working locally.

Yarn 2, aka Berry, was announced back in April 2019, it was a pretty big deal at the time. I've moved 2 clients since and still, no one is talking about it. I got curious recently and did some research about this topic. In this post, we'll see what is the deal with Yarn 2, and what the adoption is like after 2 years.

I've worked for many companies over the years since I'm in the field of consulting/contracting. It allowed me to see how teams do things differently and the pros/cons of each approach. In this blog, I want to share some of my observations on using Docker for local development.

It's been a while since I had to recall the reasons why React uses Virtual DOM. I was recently asked this in an interview, and I did an okay job explain it but not to the extent I wanted. So I spent some time re-reading the official documentation and wrote down some notes. I hope these will be helpful for anyone preparing for a React interview. Also, I have called out the vital part of each section to make it easier to see the key points.