Alvin Crespo

I've recently had to integrate Google Authentication for a side project. Join me in this first part - setting up our Google API.

Need to import a PostgreSQL database from Heroku? Check out my walkthrough on how you can import your staging or production database locally so you work with real data.

Notes from my morning read of Extreme Ownership - Check the Ego

Conducting one-on-ones should have the goal of surfacing successes, failures improvements within an organization. In this article, I'm going to go into what makes a good one-on-one experience and how to get the most of it from your reports.

Need help looking for your first or next dev job? I've got you.

In this article I'm going to help you resolve those pesky Heroku warnings around incompatible resolutions for their distributions of Linux.

You ever run into "Exited with code 137" on CircleCI when trying to run Elasticsearch? Probably. If thats the case, this is how you fix it.

Hook up DatoCMS and Gatsby.js to automate your landing page workflow. We'll use DatoCMS to manage our content and Gatsby to display it, using GraphQL to ultimately connect both platforms - making it easy for you to iterate quickly.

I'm currently studying for my AWS Solutions Architect exam and setting up a VPC is an extremely important aspect of the exam. In fact, if you can set up a VPC from scratch by memory - you're well over halfway there. This post is a simple how-to guide for anyone interested in setting up their own VPC on AWS.

Automated testing may not seem worth it - but its absolutely critical at any stage of your product lifecycle. Check out this post on why I think you should start automatically testing your app today.

If you're having trouble figuring out why your data value isn't being updated by a passed in prop - it could be that it's an async operation.

Curious how you can go about setting up your Vue app with Storybook? Let me show you how easy it is.

Presenting local data in your GatbsyJS site is simple once you know how sourcing and querying data works within the GatsbyJS plugin echosystem.

Deploying a website is easier than ever using Serverless Frameworks website component. In this article I'll show you how to get up and running deploying a frontend application in minutes.

Let's learn how to get started with Serverless Framework. Here is a guide to get your first app setup, running and deployed.

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Easily reading your git timeline

Ever run into an issue trying to fix image orientation when uploading an image that was taken with the camera on a mobile device directly? Yeah, I ran into this issue this week...not fun.

Mock testing the node fs module and global process

Fixed a few issues on a side project using Ruby and PostgreSQL.

Did you know that you could validate your CircleCI config before pushing? Neither did I. Let me show you how.

Watched a few videos around business, growth and inspiration that I believe everyone could learn from.

Use the technology you know, don't get distracted.