Built something, now on to the marketing part!

Anyone have any experience with getting products to users? I've tried cold emails but struggling to close. 🫠

Failing at interviews is annoying but such a good way to realise the aspects of software engineering that you need to learn / brush up on. Each interview I've had, I've stumbled at something that I should know. Another post to the blog coming.

Any Frontend / React engineers manage to get a foot in the door into the trading industry?

Would be interested in hearing how you went about it / any recommendations.

#reactjs #frontend #trading

1 day left for the new architects album!! 🥹

#architects

As a #react / #frontend engineer, rather than having a "portfolio" website to show of your projects etc, would it be better to have a really slick storybook design system to show off?

You could demonstrate component design, integrate unit and visual regression testing etc.

Recently did a lightening talk on Microservices - decomposition patterns, so I tried writing it up on my blog. Give it a cheeky read if you fancy:

thomas-allen.vercel.app/blog/microse...

Trying out Kling AI to generate some videos.

est 3 HOUR WAIT TIME?!!

Absolutely mental

#ai

What shall I write about next? 🤔

Might do something like Micro-frontends or something a bit more hands on like using nodemailer with Next.js for email handling.

Leaning towards something a bit more architecture based...

#react #nextjs #software

The Javascript Event Loop ft a dodgy analogy. A fundamental when learning Javascript. If you're learning React and don't understand it, give this a quick read. 😜

thomas-allen.vercel.app/blog/event-l...

I wrote something. Here's a post on how I built a 'pending' state when making a request via a server action with Next.js

thomas-allen.vercel.app/blog/pending...

Tempted to start a blog to force me to really understand to JS/React fundaments

Whenever I start a new project, I always leave the chunky bits (emails, stripe etc, auth) to the end and when I get round to them I procrastinate like my life depends on it 😂

Next time I'm getting these done first!!

...maybe

Been on the job hunt this week for a senior frontend role and I've been asked loads of questions, most of which I was asked when applying for a mid level role.

Key difference seems to be the level detail when explaining, and also confidence when explaining that they pick up on.

It's crazy how easy it is to get a business up and running with AI. I tried it out to see what i've been missing...

I built this "landing pages as a service" in 10 minutes with Cursor 🤯

Deployed to Vercel added an extra few.

Going to try a full MVP next 😂

As a Frontend consultant, I seem to spend most of my time tweaking helm files and checking pipeline logs 😭

Pays the bills though so can't complain 🤪

TypeScript Generics took a while to click for me, until I thought of them more like 'fill-in-the-blank' types.

Instead of hardcoding a type, we can use a placeholder (T) that adapts to what we pass in. e.g.:

function identity<T>(value: T): T {
return value;
}
It works with any type!