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Mike Nikles

Software Architect 👷. Productivity ⏱️ & Team Morale 😊. Web, Javascript, Cloud Native ☁️. Author 📚 and Educator 🧑‍🏫.

I talk about software architecture, web development, cloud, productivity, team morale and what's next in tech.

3 days ago blog

Why I Left Google and Joined Gitpod

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April
3 months ago blog

A Svelte component to format numbers

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3 months ago blog

2021 - My Objectives & Key Results

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2021
3 months ago blog

A smart guide for your career as a software engineer

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3 months ago projects

Published my book A Smart Guide for Your Career as a Software Engineer

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4 months ago blog

2020 - Year in Review

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4 months ago blog

Why I turned my homepage into a timeline

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4 months ago twitter

700 Followers 🎉

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December
8 months ago blog

What was the biggest blunder in your career as a developer?

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August
9 months ago blog

How I wrote 214 pages for a web development book with 19 pull requests in 3 months

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July
10 months ago projects

Published my book Cloud Native Web Development

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10 months ago blog

My personal website v2.0

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10 months ago youtube

Introduced my new Youtube channel - The Software Architect

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June
11 months ago blog

Deploy a static Sapper app with Deno on Cloud Run

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11 months ago blog

I am writing a book: Cloud Native Web Development

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11 months ago blog

Develop Cypress end-to-end tests on Gitpod.io - Virtual Desktop included

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May
12 months ago blog

Sapper, Google Cloud Run, Continuous Deployment - A boilerplate template

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12 months ago blog

Firebase Hosting for static assets of a Sapper web app on Cloud Run

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12 months ago blog

A Link Content Previewer with Svelte & Sapper

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April
about 1 year ago blog

Why I use a cloud-based development environment and how you can too

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about 1 year ago blog

How to use Svelte for your Google Docs add-on

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March
over 1 year ago blog

Add a commenting platform to a Svelte app

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2020
over 1 year ago blog

Moved my blog from Medium to my own blog

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over 1 year ago blog

Why I moved from React to Svelte and why others will follow

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December
2019
over 3 years ago blog

Our approach to software development consistency

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2018
over 3 years ago blog

A (mostly) automated release process

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December
2017
almost 5 years ago blog

Ever wondered why your best employees leave

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April
2016
Starting on a sunny day in the 1980s...

👶🍼 => 🤓🖥️ => 👨🗺️

1980s

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