The role of a Team Lead is to make your team better within the context of the organization. What do I mean by that? So instead of being the best Individual Contributor (IC) of your team, a Lead makes others into high-performing ICs. But that’s only one part of it. …

This article goes over how to give feedback to your direct report. Why Why should you give feedback? Because you want to help your direct succeed. After a job well done, praise your direct. If there’s an area for improvement, provide critical feedback. Feedback — like coaching — is an ongoing…

A guide on how to create a Heroku app on GitHub pull request (PR) with GitHub Actions. — This article goes over how to create a Heroku app when a GitHub pull request (PR) is opened. Problem Due to an incident that caused Heroku to revoke their GitHub integration, I needed an alternative way to create review apps without having to manually deploy them via the CLI. Solution I created…

This article goes over how to create and deploy a Git branch to Heroku via the CLI. Prerequisites Heroku CLI Create Let’s say you want to create a Heroku app named my-app. Create it in Heroku dashboard or via the CLI: heroku apps:create my-app # --team my-team Optionally, you can add it…

This article goes over how to run a command in the background with nohup. Problem Imagine you’re creating a script that runs redis-server then redis-cli: redis-server redis-cli redis-cli never starts since redis-server runs forever. Solution One solution is to run redis-server in the background with &: redis-server & However, to run redis-server…

A tutorial on deploying a Parcel build to Heroku. — This article goes over how to deploy a Parcel build to Heroku.