scroll events and invoking lodash’s `_.throttle` or `_.debounce`

2019-05-06

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~4 min read

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685 words

Recently, I was working on a project where I wanted the scroll event to invoke a function that would affect other elements on the page. For…

git merge strategies - recursive - theirs (and ours)

2019-05-04

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~1 min read

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180 words

Often when I get a merge conflict, what I really want to do is defer to the master branch, so, if I’m on a branch and I want to merge in the…

lodash `_groupby` vs. custom helper functions

2019-05-03

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~3 min read

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431 words

Yesterday, I wrote about using Lodash’s to solve a problem. The issue was that that wasn’t the first time Lodash proved helpful. My first…

objects, undefined values, and lodash's `_.pickby` and `_.identity`

2019-05-01

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~4 min read

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675 words

Let’s start with the basics. I was in an oh-so-common situation recently where I was building a component that would visualize the details…

git - renaming a branch: locally & remotely

2019-04-30

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~2 min read

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293 words

To rename the name of a branch, there are four potential steps: Checkout the existing branch (the one you want to rename): Rename the local…

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