Jacob Herrington (he/him)

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Senior Software Engineer at DEV

education

Self-taught

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Aug 19, 2018

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

May 20

SQL From Scratch Part 1 - Getting Started with SQL

#beginners #sql #tutorial #database

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7 min read

Easily Squash, Reword, Amend, and Sort Commits with Git Rebase

#git #github #beginners #tutorial

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4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 8

Interview with Charity Majors: 6 Key Career Lessons From the CTO of Honeycomb

#career #podcast #productivity

4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 3

Git Rebase Explained Simply

#git #tutorial #productivity #beginners

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4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Dec 13 '19

How I Handle the Fear of Rejection

#career #hiring #beginners

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4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Nov 12 '19

How to Find Mentors, Grow a Network, and Make Friends

#career #beginners #motivation

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9 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Nov 1 '19

#discussHow I Got Hired at DEV (and Every Other Tech Job)

#career #discuss

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13 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Oct 31 '19

#watercoolerWhat Alternative Text Editors Does DEV Use? (Not VS Code 🐱‍👓)

#discuss #watercooler #vscode #emacs

135 155

1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Oct 31 '19

Give Your Terminal Super Powers: tmux Cheatsheet!

#productivity #tutorial #beginners #bash

193 19

4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Oct 30 '19

#discussThe Divergence of Open Source Maintainer From Software Engineer

#opensource #career #discuss #beginners

70 1

6 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Oct 20 '19

Setting Up a Svelte Project (in seconds) with Degit

#javascript #svelte #tutorial #beginners

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2 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Oct 18 '19

Interview with Molly Struve: 3 Tactics for Mentoring Others

#career #podcast #management #beginners

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3 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Oct 2 '19

How to Write Useful Commit Messages (My Commit Message Template)

#git #tutorial #productivity #beginners

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6 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Sep 30 '19

Challenger Approaching: I am joining the DEV team!

#meta #career #personal

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Sep 20 '19

A Fool-Proof Way to Keep Your Fork Caught Up in Git

#git #tutorial #github #productivity

91 9

4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Sep 18 '19

Interview with Taylor Otwell: 6 Lessons Learned From Creating Laravel

#career #podcasts #opensource #laravel

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5 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Sep 6 '19

Svelte Web Interfaces with Svelte

#javascript #svelte #webdev #css

193 20

5 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 27 '19

Interview with Cassidy Williams: 3 Ways to Deconstruct Problems That Cause Imposter Syndrome

#career #podcasts #productivity

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4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 26 '19

4 Useful Solutions to Common Git Problems

#git #productivity #tutorial

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5 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 23 '19

7 Ways to Get the Most Out of Pair Programming

#beginners #productivity #agile #career

139 10

8 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 21 '19

#discussWhich Non-US Software Engineers Should I Follow? (Includes Big Twitter Thread)

#discuss #career

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 20 '19

Interview with Kent C. Dodds: 8 Tips for Building Your Career

#career #podcasts #productivity #beginners

211 2

4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 20 '19

50 Things I Wish I'd Known at My First Developer Job (Part 2)

#beginners #career #productivity

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9 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 19 '19

#healthydebate10 Hiring Practices That Will Keep Me From Working for You

#career #management #healthydebate #inclusion

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9 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 19 '19

50 Things I Wish I'd Known at My First Developer Job (Part 1)

#beginners #career #productivity

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9 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 18 '19

Interview with Ali Spittel: 5 Tips for Contributing to the Developer Community

#career #podcasts #writing

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5 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 17 '19

Interview with Emma Wedekind: 3 Tips for Growing as an Engineer

#career #podcast #productivity

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3 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 16 '19

Open Source Made Me $10K Working Part-Time for 30 Days

#opensource #career

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4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 16 '19

Chris Oliver: Creator of GoRails, Hatchbox, and Remote Ruby Host on Learning to Build Software

#career #podcast

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4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 14 '19

10 More Git Tricks That You Should Know

#git #productivity #tutorial #beginners

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3 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 14 '19

Build a Serverless Ruby App with Jets in 2 Minutes

#aws #ruby #tutorial

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3 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 13 '19

#discuss[Ask Dev] Is Slack disruptive at work?

#discuss #productivity #career

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 13 '19

A Quick Guide to Hunky Git

#git #productivity #beginners #tutorial

6 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 12 '19

5 Handy Bash Tricks in 2 Minutes

#beginners #productivity #bash #linux

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 11 '19

#discuss5 Powerful Programming Languages to Stretch Your Brain

#beginners #career #discuss #programming

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6 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 10 '19

4 Ways to Build Seniority from Jason Swett

#career #motivation #podcast

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4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 8 '19

Git Bisect is Easy (How to Initiate the Robot Uprising)

#git #productivity #beginners #testing

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5 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Aug 7 '19

10 Git Tricks to Save Your Time and Sanity

#git #productivity #beginners

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4 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Feb 12 '19

Fathom: An Open Source Google Analytics Alternative

#githunt #analytics #opensource #go

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 30 '19

Awesome List of Developer Podcasts

#career #podcast #opensource #githunt

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 17 '19

A (Big) List of Resources for Developers

#githunt #learning #webdev

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 13 '19

#discussThe Best Books for New Devs + Bonus Twitter Thread

#career #beginners #discuss #learning

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 12 '19

Plume: Federated Blogs with Rust

#githunt #rust #opensource

1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 11 '19

Interview with Ben Ilegbodu: Three Things That Compose Seniority

#career #leadership #motivation #culture

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2 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 11 '19

Write You a Haskell

#githunt #opensource #haskell #learning

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 6 '19

A FOSS Note Taking App... with Synchronization Capabilities (Joplin)

#githunt #cli #productivity

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 4 '19

Ryan Bigg on Imposter Syndrome and Becoming a Senior Developer

#career #opensource #leadership #culture

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2 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 3 '19

Lightning Fast Terminal File Manager

#githunt #productivity #cli

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1 min read

Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Jan 2 '19

#showdevImposter Syndrome and Hero Worship: Why I Started a Podcast

#career #motivation #showdev #beginners

2 min read

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