using `_.pick` to extract relevant details from objects

2019-06-21

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~3 min read

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437 words

Building on lessons from yesterday’s dive into , I found an opportunity to explore . This time it was because I wanted to send data from the…

more uses of `_.groupby`

2019-06-20

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~2 min read

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254 words

As I wrote previously, the method of Lodash can be really useful. My original use case for was for one big object, but of course, those…

in defense of pen & paper

2019-06-19

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~3 min read

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427 words

I seem incapable of reading without a pen in hand. If I am not in a place where I can underline or jot a note in the margins — I don’t read…

handling empty arrays with postgres

2019-06-18

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~2 min read

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258 words

A few days ago, I wrote about handling arrays from Javascript to SQL. Turns out, I missed an edge case - empty arrays. If you try to set an…

testing - chai tests and database connection pools

2019-06-17

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~3 min read

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433 words

I’m writing some integration tests for an app that is confirming database queries are working the way I’m expecting. In order to prep the…

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