Tools Posts

Orchestration vs. Choreography: A Guide to Systems Coordination
Sarah Dutkiewicz
June 11, 2025
Imagine you’re at a concert. You have the conductor, who is the orchestrator, making sure each instrument plays its part at the right time. Then you have a…
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Run GitHub Pages Locally in a Dev Container
Sarah Dutkiewicz
April 17, 2025
Now that we’ve launched another course on NimblePros Academy, I have a little more time that I can put towards eShopOnWeb and cleaning up its documentation. We…
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Gatsby Dev Container Refactored
Sarah Dutkiewicz
December 23, 2024
In our post on Running Gatsby in a Dev Container, we set up a dev container running a non-root user. While prepping for our Dev Containers Unwrapped! webinar, I…
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Running Gatsby in a Dev Container
Sarah Dutkiewicz
September 23, 2024
In the last dev containers post, I mentioned that one of the painful things I have to deal with is maintaining Gatsby sites. The real pain comes from at least…
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Introduction to Dev Containers
Sarah Dutkiewicz
September 19, 2024
Picture this - you’re a consultant who happens to be working on projects in different versions of Node.js. Or maybe you’re a consultant who happens to be…
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Edit Multiple Lines Simultaneously with Visual Studio Code
Sarah Dutkiewicz
June 13, 2024
Have you ever had a moment where you need to make the same edits to multiple lines in a file? Maybe you have a list that needs bullets added at the beginning…
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Using Variables in Visual Studio Code Snippets
Sarah Dutkiewicz
June 05, 2024
I have a few Gatsby sites that I contribute to for work. The frontmatter boilerplate has been a thorn in my side, and I figured there has to be better. For…
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Using Google Appointment Schedules
Sarah Dutkiewicz
April 22, 2024
Every now and then, my clients will ask for my availability so that they can book time with me. As I have a Google calendar, I wanted to see if there were any…
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