Adam Berg – Medium

Published in dev/tails

·May 14

Building My Own App to Enhance Language Learning

Background A couple of years ago, I read Fluent in Three Months and was inspired to tackle learning a new language. After studying and working with computer languages, I realized that learning new ones became easier and easier once I understood the underlying concepts. Around the same time, I committed myself…

Language Learning

6 min read

Published in dev/tails

·Apr 10

Taking Flight Without a Smart Phone

In February, I wrote about getting rid of my iPhone and replacing it with a Nokia 6300 4G. I am incredibly happy with the results of this experience. I gained a new sense of presence with the real world and killed some bad scrolling habits. …

Phone Addiction

7 min read

Published in Geek Culture

·Mar 6

I Can No Longer Compile My First Flash Game

Update With some help from a HN user, I’ve managed to successfully compile the main swf. The issue was a combination of not knowing the right command line parameters and there were a couple code changes that needed to be made Thanks to all who have suggested things, has given me…

Game Development

6 min read

I Can No Longer Compile My First Flash Game

Published in Level Up Coding

·Feb 28

How to Replace Webpack in Create React App With esbuild

Originally published at https://devtails.xyz on February 28, 2022. The year is 2022 and all your web development friends tell you to learn React. To make things simple, they tell you about this thing called Create React App. You see that in three commands you can have a fully configured React…

React

5 min read

Feb 2

Dear Medium, Your Search is Broken

I started writing on Medium back in September 2020. I finally wanted to start publishing content and stop making excuses for not writing. …

Medium

3 min read

Published in Level Up Coding

·Dec 14, 2021

3 Lines of Code Shouldn’t Take All Day

I have worked at 5 different software companies with a mixture of game development, mobile development, and web development. Across all of these, one topic stands out that does not get the attention it deserves: time to iterate. Originally I planned to write about build times, but I think iteration…

Programming

5 min read

Published in Level Up Coding

·Dec 10, 2021

Using Github Actions to Deploy a React App and Express API Over SSH in 15 seconds

Motivation I’ve been looking to revamp the deployment process for several projects that I’m working on and start building towards my preferred method of deployment. My biggest requirements are simplicity and speed. I have used Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and various other methods of deployment in the past. …

Dev Ops

7 min read

Using Github Actions to Deploy a React App and Express API Over SSH in 15 seconds

Published in Level Up Coding

·Dec 10, 2021

How to Build a Note Taking Command Line Application With Rust: Part 2

In the first part of this series, we created a basic rust CLI program that allows us to create notes and save them in an sqlite database. If you have not already read that one, you should start there as this builds off of where that post left off. This…

Rust

7 min read

Published in Level Up Coding

·Nov 28, 2021

How to Set Up Server Side Rendering (SSR) With React, express.js, and esbuild

Table of Contents What is Server Side Rendering? Why use Server Side Rendering? How to Implement Server Side Rendering with React Code for this tutorial can be found on GitHub What is Server Side Rendering? Server side rendering is the ability for the server to immediately return a fully rendered HTML page for the client. A simple static…

React

7 min read

Published in Level Up Coding

·Nov 27, 2021

How to Build a Note Taking Command Line Application With Rust: Part 1

Update: Part 2 is now available Last week I wrote about my first Rust application. After making it through some of the initial syntax hurdles, I’m feeling good about the language. …

Rust

9 min read