Chirpmark is an app I’m building for managing Twitter bookmarks. It will allow users to save, organize, and do more with their bookmarks. If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen me Tweet about Chirpmark a few times. It’s an app I’m working on that aims to make Twitter…

Here’s how I reduced the carbon footprint of brockherion.dev and how you reduce the footprint of your site as well. Did you know that websites have carbon footprints? It makes sense if you think about it. Every time you visit a site, you are making a request to a server…

Anybody who knows me knows that I love Next.js. It’s a great framework for building React apps that, combined with Vercel, provides a fantastic developer experience. This weekend, however, I was introduced to Astro through a new Fireship.io video. I’d heard about Astro a few times but never did anything…

Looking back on my journey, there are a few things I wish I had known about being a developer when I started out. — Not long ago, I had a phone call with my brother. The reason for the call was that he wanted my opinion on him changing his major. The call was not about the act of changing majors, but specifically about him changing into software engineering. He wanted to know if…

Meet tRPC: a tool for building APIs with end-to-end type-safety. — When I first started developing full-stack applications, I was building and managing my own REST APIs. I began with building them in Java with Spring, then moved over to .NET, then to Node.js with Express, and even dabbled in a little bit of Django. …

Using mixins to create powerful, flexible Django models You can also find this article on my blog here I’ve been doing a much deeper dive into Django for web development lately and I have found myself repeating a lot of fields on a lot of tables. Things like created_at, updated_at…

A simple guide to creating a Redux Store in an Electron application — I have been working on my final project for my Capstone college course. My group and I decided we wanted to build a retirement planning desktop app using Electron. As we began working through our different tasks, we realized that we had no state management in place to handle different…

Learning new skills and improving existing ones is the cornerstone of being a developer — 2021 has already proven itself as another crazy year. It’s also another fantastic opportunity to learn new skills and expand on existing ones. In software development, stagnation is a sure-fire way to fall behind the curve. …

How you can accelerate your learning and your career as a software developer This story was posted to my blog at https://brockheriondev.com/launching-your-developer-career-while-still-in-school/ I consider myself very lucky to be in the position that I am in. When I graduate school, I will be graduating with not only a Bachelor in…