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Published in The PayPal Technology Blog

·Aug 9, 2022

Using TypeScript to Speed Up Development with the PayPal JavaScript SDK

Did you know that PayPal publishes type definitions for our JavaScript SDK? And you don’t even need to be using TypeScript to benefit. They’re included as part of the paypal-js npm package. …

PayPal

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Using TypeScript to Speed Up Development with the PayPal JavaScript SDK
Using TypeScript to Speed Up Development with the PayPal JavaScript SDK
PayPal

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May 18, 2022

DX Lessons Learned from Disney’s California Adventure Theme Park

I was standing in line last weekend at the Cars ride at Disney’s California Adventure Theme Park appreciating all the tiny little details they put into not only the ride, but even the line itself. Working now in developer relations I’m constantly thinking about improving the developer experience for our…

Developer Experience

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DX Lessons Learned from Disney’s California Adventure Theme Park
DX Lessons Learned from Disney’s California Adventure Theme Park
Developer Experience

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Mar 17, 2021

Understanding Amazon’s Front-End Engineering Interview

Note: I’m not representing Amazon in any way with this post, it’s just my personal opinion. Front-End Engineering in a Back-end World I spent a lot of years thinking big tech companies were evil and claimed to love the hectic startup life, but the truth is I had convinced myself I could never get a job…

Job Hunting

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Understanding Amazon’s Front-End Engineering Interview
Understanding Amazon’s Front-End Engineering Interview
Job Hunting

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Mar 16, 2021

How I Landed a Front-End Engineering Job at Amazon

Note: I’m not representing Amazon in any way with this post. It’s just my personal experience and opinion. I’ve blogged about being a self-taught engineer before and also about some of the accompanying struggles I’ve had trying to fit the mold expected to land a job in tech, especially at…

Hiring

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How I got a Front-End Engineering Job at Amazon
How I got a Front-End Engineering Job at Amazon
Hiring

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Jan 1, 2019

My Journey as a Self-Taught Engineer

In the 7th grade I convinced my Grandma to buy me a student copy of Visual Studio. I used to lug the accompanying Visual Basic book around at school. After getting kicked out of gym class I would sit in the office for that period and read it every day. …

Programming

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My Journey as a Self-Taught Engineer
My Journey as a Self-Taught Engineer
Programming

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Dec 7, 2018

Self-Doubt and Being Self-Taught

Thanksgiving 2017 I was hanging out with family near Las Vegas and generally having a great time, but I couldn’t stop thinking that maybe I should go back to school. I was never actually good at school. I have a degree in Community, Environment and Planning from the University of…

Programming

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Self-Doubt and Being Self-Taught
Self-Doubt and Being Self-Taught
Programming

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Jun 1, 2018

Why We Need A Mental Health Technology Conference

AnxietyTech is a new conference I’m organizing to discuss cutting edge technology and mental health. Everyone working in tech needs to attend! This is absolutely the time to have these discussions and build the community that’s going to end up making such a big difference for so many people’s lives. …

Mental Health

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Mental Health

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Nov 24, 2016

Custom JavaScript Errors in ES6

A few years ago I gave a talk at MountainWest JS called Error Handling in node.js. In that talk I extolled the virtues of creating custom error objects by extending the built-in Error type. Most of the content was inspired by Guillermo’s seminal A String is Not an Error. …

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Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news

·Jul 22, 2016

Manually Tuning Webpack Builds

Back in April I shifted into a platform/architect role in my job at PayPal. I was tasked with looking at stability, performance and quality. One of the first things I did was graph our JavaScript bundle sizes over time. After a couple of weeks I noticed at several points we…

JavaScript

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Manually Tuning Webpack Builds
Manually Tuning Webpack Builds
JavaScript

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Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news

·Jul 21, 2016

Getting Started with Async/Await

Inspired by the Zeit team’s post on the subject, my team at PayPal recently migrated our main server-side codebase to use Async/Await. I’m excited to share with you some of things we learned along the way. Let’s start with some terminology: Async function Await keyword People usually say async/await which…

JavaScript

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Getting Started with Async/Await
Getting Started with Async/Await
JavaScript

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