when tracking makes sense

2019-04-14

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~2 min read

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305 words

Before my recent efforts to be more mindful of how I used technology, I was quite proud of the streak I had with meditating daily. I had…

currying - an introduction with function declarations & expressions

2019-04-13

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~4 min read

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766 words

For a long time, I hated seeing functions like this: . I thought this was just “code golf” (the idea of reducing a function to its shortest…

how to test your api using curl & postman

2019-04-13

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~2 min read

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302 words

The other day, I found myself making some changes to a network request for our application. By navigating to a specific page, I knew I’d…

bash functions & git - how to wipe out changes made to a specific file

2019-04-07

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~3 min read

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439 words

I find myself writing the following command multiple times daily. I had been reading a little about bash functions and wanted to see if I…

closure & lexical scope

2019-04-05

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~3 min read

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450 words

When we say that Javascript is lexically scoped, what we mean is that a function will have access to the variables in the context in which…

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