arrive safely and avoid (avoidable) accidents

2019-05-27

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~3 min read

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433 words

No matter the mode of transportation, the faster you go, the less control you have. If you’ve ever tried to turn on a dime when sprinting or…

cleaning up your local git repository: aka how to remove stale branches

2019-05-26

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~10 min read

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1834 words

Unless your git workflow is pushing straight to master (because YOLO), it’s likely that your local repository will grow unwieldy in time…

simple way to swap variables using javascript

2019-05-24

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~3 min read

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430 words

I’ve been learning about some of the ways you can use destructuring to make my Javascript more declarative and communicate my intent more…

create a spinner & add a loader in react

2019-05-23

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~2 min read

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250 words

Using two libraries, and , I learned a new simple way to create a component (i.e. a spinner) to be used while an image is being loaded in…

unzipping a file from the command line

2019-05-22

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~4 min read

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657 words

I should start with the observation that I hate using my mouse. Yet, that was exactly what I was about to do today to unzip a file. The…

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