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Deliberate Practice and Continuous Improvement - Teamwork

Agile

Deliberate Practice and Continuous Improvement in Software Teams

Doing something for 10,000 hours doesn’t make you an expert. This post looks at what deliberate practice really means, and how Scrum and other Agile approaches can help teams keep improving.

oauth

OAuth 2.0 vs OpenID Connect: What's the Difference and Which Do You Need?

OAuth 2.0 handles authorization, OpenID Connect handles authentication. Learn the difference, how the tokens compare, and which one your app needs.

OAuth

A Modern Guide to Using OAuth 2.0 with Node.js

Get an OAuth 2.0 access token in Node.js with MSAL, then call Microsoft Graph using built-in fetch and credentials loaded from an environment file.

How AI helped me get a perfect Lighthouse score

AI

How AI helped me get my website to a perfect Lighthouse score

How I used GitHub Copilot and Lighthouse reports to improve my blog's performance, taking some of its worst pages from a score of 73 to 100.

AI

Prompt-Driven Development: Building with GitHub Copilot Coding Agents

We used GitHub Copilot coding agents to build an app across different time zones. The AI wrote the code, but prompts, tests, guardrails, and pull requests made it software development rather than vibe coding.

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Deliberate Practice and Continuous Improvement in Software Teams

OAuth 2.0 vs OpenID Connect: What's the Difference and Which Do You Need?

A Modern Guide to Using OAuth 2.0 with Node.js

How AI helped me get my website to a perfect Lighthouse score

Prompt-Driven Development: Building with GitHub Copilot Coding Agents