Alyssa Holland
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Alyssa Holland

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Welcome to my blog 👋🏽 I'm a Front-End Developer with a passion for learning!

I write about Programming 👩🏽‍💻 and Productivity Tips ✔️

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7 Free Mac Apps to Boost Development Productivity

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Sep 22, 20203 min read

This is a list of the main apps I use as a Full-time Developer. If you enjoy lists like this, you might also enjoy my article on the 5 Chrome Extensions to Boost Development Productivity. Anyway, enough promoting and let's get on with the list... 1)...

7 Free Mac Apps to Boost Development Productivity

How to Isolate Tests in Jest

Dec 17, 20212 min read

A Note on the Series: Fast Fridays 🏎 is a series where you will find fast, short and sweet tips/hacks that you may or may not be aware of. I will try to provide these (fairly) regularly on Fridays. When writing unit tests with Jest, I often want t...

How to Isolate Tests in Jest

Custom Hooks in React: useMediaQuery

Dec 6, 20214 min read

The addition of hooks in React 16.8 added massive improvements and made it easier than ever to reuse functionality between components. There are pre-defined hooks like useState and useEffect but, there is also the ability to create custom hooks to su...

Custom Hooks in React: useMediaQuery

How to Create a Custom Alfred Workflow using Python

Oct 27, 20219 min read

I've written about Alfred in the past, and I am a big fan of its features that help improve my productivity. If you're not familiar with Alfred, the official website describes it as: ... an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficienc...

How to Create a Custom Alfred Workflow using Python

The Top 4 Lessons I Learned at My First Developer Job

Sep 28, 20215 min read

When I graduated college and landed my first developer job, I had many preconceived notions about what being a software developer entailed. I (wrongly) assumed that the industry experience would be similar to that of the collegial experience I had as...

The Top 4 Lessons I Learned at My First Developer Job

Git Reset vs. Revert

Aug 23, 20214 min read

Have you ever made some revisions to your code, committed those changes, and then wished you could undo the changes you just committed? Perhaps you pushed up some code to a remote branch for a feature you are working on and then realized that you wan...

Git Reset vs. Revert