I'm Steven Hicks. I am a web generalist with 20 years of experience. I'm currently focused on React development.
I share my experience and perspective through speaking, writing, and teaching.
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Work projects require git commits to be signed with my work email; I'd like commits on my personal projects to be signed with my personal email. The solution: conditional includes in my .gitconfig!
Read about it!New job time means new dev environment time! I used RCM to save my previous dotfiles environment...what does it look like to use RCM to initialize my new environment from those existing dotfiles?
Read about it!2021 was significantly better than I remembered it! Why do I feel like it was so awful?
Read about it!I've started putting together my 2021-in-review article, and while doing so I've been thinking about why I think it's so important.
Read about it!Recently I had an experience where a conviction and my determination helped me dig deep to solve a problem. When reflecting on it, I started to wonder when conviction is helpful as a developer, and when it is harmful.
Read about it!