👋🏻, I'm Julia.

✍🏼 Blog posts on my experience as a software engineer

I'm trying to solidify my learnings and help others at the same time by writing these short blog posts. I generally write about problems I come across and how I solved them. I'll occassionally also write about my personal experiences of navigating my career as a software engineer. If you spot an error, or have any comments, suggestions or questions about what I've written, contact me on Twitter @bionicjulia, Instagram, or email hello at bionicjulia.com. I'd love to hear from you. 🤓

React Native Touchable Components and Web Page Embeds - When to use Pressable vs. TouchableOpacity or Web Views vs Web links

[ react native ]

Component Lifecycles with React Navigation in React Native - How to refresh an API call when a user navigates back in a stack

[ react native, react navigation ]

How To Add Search Functionality to a NextJS Markdown Blog (Part 1) - Implementing an internal API for searching through markdown blog posts

[ react, nextjs, typescript ]

Transitioning from React to React Native - 3 things I learnt this week

[ react native ]

Integrating Webmentions Into NextJS Blog - Verifying with Twitter as an example

[ nextjs, react, typescript, webmention ]

Chrome Devtools - Going beyond the Elements tab

[ dev tools ]

Using Typescript Unions With Never and Extends - To define conditional required component props

[ typescript ]

Setting up virtual environments for Python repos - What is pyenv, venv and virtualenv?

[ python ]

Setting up a NextJS Markdown Blog with Typescript - With syntax highlighting and the ability to easily add more blogs

[ markdown, nextjs, react, typescript ]

Creating an Accordion Component in React with Typescript and TailwindCSS - Using useState and useRef hooks

[ hooks, react, tailwind, typescript ]

How To Clear a Redux Toolkit State That's Using redux-persist With Typescript - Setting up the reducer function and action you need to completely clear local storage

[ react, redux-persist, redux toolkit, typescript ]

How I Got 4 Software Developer Job Offers In 4 Weeks - Despite not having worked as a formal software developer before

[ reflections, career ]

Creating a Copy to Clipboard Button in React - With an animated copy success state for user feedback

[ react, hooks ]

Rendering Variable React Components - Displaying different named components based on logic

[ react ]

Deriving a Typescript Union Type From an Array or Object - Using as const from Typescript 3.4

[ react, typescript ]

Generating a Yup Validation Object with a Map Function - Dynamically create a validation schema from an array of objects

[ react, typescript, forms, yup ]

Yup Validation for Date and Time With MomentJS - Exploring Yup's .test() check with MomentJS

[ react, forms, formik, yup, momentjs ]

Generating Multiple React useState Hooks For Multiple State Variables - How to generate them automatically from an object

[ react, typescript, hooks ]

HTML Time Input Field - Catering for Safari and Internet Explorer

[ react, typescript, forms, formik, yup, react datepicker ]

SQL Window Functions: Using Dense Rank Over Partition By - Building up to a window function query step by step

[ sql, databases ]

Using SQL to Flatten a Database Table - Learning the basic SQL commands

[ sql, databases ]

Sentry Cross-Origin Frame Error - Seen only in the Facebook browser

[ react, sentry ]

Axios Wrappers in React Typescript - Why an abstraction upon an abstraction might be useful

[ react, typescript, axios, apis ]

How To Run AB Tests In React - 4 options I came across

[ react, ab testing ]

Fighting Imposters Syndrome As A Software Engineer - 3 months into my new role

[ reflections, career ]