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First Year in Review
10/25/2021 - Sarah Sunday
It has been a little over a year since I officially started the business. Which means it’s time for a retrospective! This is going to be all over the place, which is where I’m at mentally right now. It’s not...
4 Takeaways as a Mentor of a New Developer
07/16/2021 - Sarah Sunday
A complementary post to Jonathan’s 4 Areas to Master for New Developers blog post: My takeaways after around two months of onboarding/mentoring a recent bootcamp graduate without professional software development experience. I’ve mentored before, but never at this experience level,...
4 Areas to Master for New Developers!
06/21/2021 - Jonathan Wang
Coming from a 16-week full-stack coding bootcamp, I learned a bunch of skills and technologies jammed into such a short time. I learned and used several modern programming languages, frameworks, databases and other important pieces of tech. I spent time...
Hello World (from Jonathan Wang)!
05/28/2021 - Jonathan Wang
My name is Jonathan Wang, I’m a recent bootcamp graduate from Actualize Coding Bootcamp and I’m excited to have joined Niedziela Solutions as a Full Stack Engineer!
Basic New NPM Version Workflow
04/13/2021 - Sarah Sunday
I currently have one published NPM package: the S3 Bulk Redirector. It’s a very simple package for a very specific use case. I only update it when the dependent packages need updating, which is not that often. I recently had...
Trunk-Based Development in Practice
03/08/2021 - Sarah Sunday
Before I get into how trunk-based development works for us, I’ll direct anyone looking for a comprehensive primer and argument for trunk-based development to this Atlassian article. This article compares the two primary development flows and gives the benefits for...
Technical Cheat Sheet V1
02/17/2021 - Sarah Sunday
A new area of the website has been added: the resources section. Right now, it only has the Technical Cheat Sheet. The idea behind this cheat sheet was to consolidate common tech terms, acronyms, and so on, and provide basic,...
Coming to Microsoft 365 for the First Time
02/05/2021 - Sarah Sunday
For an all-in-one solution for business productivity tools, there are two major options: Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace (formerly known as G Suite). For most of my working life, I’ve used Google. I’m personally not a fan of Google, but...
Serverless Contact Form in Use!
01/27/2021 - Sarah Sunday
If you go to our contact page you’ll see a form to send us a message. After you fill it in, and then you click submit…what happens? Where does that information go?
Terraform Static Site Setup Updates
01/22/2021 - Sarah Sunday
I started building this set of Terraform scripts around a year ago to learn Terraform in a way that was concrete for me. I love making little static websites with AWS S3 and Cloudfront, so having a way to make...
Hello World!
12/17/2020 - Sarah Sunday
This is the first blog post on the website. Subsequent blog posts will be concerning software (opinionated and not), general consulting sentiments, and other useful bits of information.