macos spotlight nonsense & reindexing

2019-02-12

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~2 min read

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330 words

Recently, Spotlight had been acting up. For example: When I search for Spotify (an app I use every day), it wouldn’t show up. Instead I’d…

js modules primer: export & require

2019-02-11

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~9 min read

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1601 words

Update With Node 13, modules came out from behind the experimental feature flag. So How Do We Use Modules In Node.js? has been updated to…

reasons to share

2019-02-06

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~2 min read

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399 words

There are plenty of reasons to write this blog and share your perspective. Recently, however, I had a few experiences that really reinforced…

difference arrays: what are they and how do they work?

2019-01-31

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~5 min read

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882 words

Difference Arrays Imagine you’re given a problem that says for each “query” in the format add to all elements of an array of zeros with a…

exploring get requests: multiple values and parameters

2019-01-30

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~4 min read

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707 words

The ease of writing GET requests varies with the clarity of the supporting documentation. With that in mind, I recently explored an API…

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