👋 Mike Nikles

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

A twenty year tech career retrospective of what I would do differently and why.

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

An in-depth journey report of the last three months when I wrote the Cloud Native Web Development book. Why did I write it? How did I develop the source code? Why do I self-publish? What has the post-publication experience been like?

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My personal website v2.0

A complete rewrite of my personal website and blog with Svelte, Sapper, mdsvex and Tailwind CSS. Blog posts can be reviewed on a preview URL and discussed in a pull request. The site follows best practices; accessibility (a11y), top Lighthouse score, Google's web vitals, and SEO.

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Deploy a static Sapper app with Deno on Cloud Run

Deploy a static Sapper / Svelte application to Cloud Run, served by Deno.

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I am writing a book: Cloud Native Web Development

I am writing a hands-on guidebook on how to develop cloud-native web applications.

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

Run the Cypress UI on Gitpod.io without the need of a local development environment.

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

Use Firebase Hosting for static assets of a Sapper web application deployed on Cloud Run.

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

Deploy a Sapper / Svelte web application to Google Cloud Run with continuous deployment using Cloud Build and Artifact Registry.

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A Link Content Previewer with Svelte & Sapper

Develop a <LinkPreview> Svelte component to display a link's content in a preview card.

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

JBuilder, Eclipse, WebStorm, Atom, VS Code - The evolution of my development IDEs before I moved to the cloud. Learn why I did and how you can too!

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How to use Svelte for your Google Docs add-on

Develop Google Docs add-on sidebars with Svelte and Typescript.

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Add a commenting platform to a Svelte app

A short intro on how to add a commenting platform to a Svelte app using commento.io.

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

A post about my React experience, why Svelte impressed me and code snippets to compare React with Svelte.

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Our approach to software development consistency

Don't document what you can automate.

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A (mostly) automated release process

Automate whatever you can automate and share the responsibility for the remaining tasks.

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Ever wondered why your best employees leave

Thoughts on why top employees leave their jobs.

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