Damian Demasi
@colocodes
Joined November 3rd, 2021
Web Developer - I switched careers in my 40s - Writer of web development blog posts - I love to share Notion templates
Hackathon: Building a MongoDB fuzzy search web app with React, Next.js and TailwindCSS
Web Development Glossary Search is a web application that I created with the objective of taking part in the MongoDB Atlas Hackathon hosted by the DEV.to community.
The app makes use of seve...
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Measuring your progress in Web Development: why is it important and how to do it
The learning journey in the web development world can be chaotic at times. If you think about the fact that there are too many topics to learn, too much to remember, and the incommensurable...
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I share my Notion template with over 440 pages of web development content
In one of my last posts, Using Notion to organise programming topics, some people contacted me on Twitter and asked me to share the Notion template I was using to build my commonplace book...
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Using Notion to organise programming topics
When I first started diving into the web development world I felt overwhelmed by the amount of information out there, and all the topics I wanted to explore and learn. I immediately found th...
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How to become a web developer in 2022, with coach Gandalf
In this blog post, I'll be discussing why you shouldn't trust on new year's resolutions, how overrated motivation is, tools to help you succeed in the path of learning web development, and t...
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React: class components vs function components
When I first started working with React, I mostly used function components, especially because I read that class components were old and outdated. But when I started working with React profe...
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How to build a JavaScript project using APIs, promises, classes, error handling, and more!
Why did I choose to build this project? 🤔
This project was one of my favourite tools for breaking my way out of tutorial hell 👹. I also wanted this project to serve me as a display of my Jav...
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How to make a vanilla JavaScript project: a beautiful To-Do app
Doing courses and tutorials is great, but sometimes is difficult to evaluate how much are we actually learning. Watching video after video and coding along with the instructor gives us very...
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Learn how to use Git and GitHub in a team like a pro (part 2)
In the previous part of this tutorial, we learned how Harry and Hermione decided to build a SaaS app to allow people to build their own potions online and share them with the rest of the wor...
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10 takeaways from my first software developers Meetup
Yesterday evening I went to my first software development Meetup. I was hesitating in going because I'm sort of an introvert and going into a room full of strangers is not what I imagine whe...
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Learn how to use Git and GitHub in a team like a pro
In this tutorial, you will learn how to work in a team with a central repository on GitHub. You will work on issues, commits, pull requests, code reviews, and more.
I don't consider myself a...
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Recommended courses to learn web development + course giveaway
Becoming a web developer (or growing into that position) can trigger some extreme anxiety attacks and tsunami-like waves of uncertainty. This is why I would like to offer you a helping hand...
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GitHub Copilot blew my mind on a code-along exercise
GitHub Copilot has surprised me beyond what I could have ever expected. I guess artificial intelligence is more capable than I thought initially, and this is a great example of how it can he...
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How I’ve got a web development job one week after publishing my portfolio
Using my portfolio as an interview hook
After spending months studying front end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Git), and weeks building my portfolio (well, actually two port...
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