charts, colors, and complements: oh my!

2018-12-20

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~10 min read

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1974 words

Charts are the black hole of programming. I was warned, but I wanted to tackle charts anyway. That was my first mistake. Humans tend to…

node environmental variables: a simple example

2018-12-18

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~2 min read

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234 words

This is not going to be a deep dive into Node’s environmental variables, but rather a quick look at how you may use environmental variables…

error handling: jest with babel

2018-12-16

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~2 min read

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388 words

Trying to run tests with Jest, I got the following error: Looking at the stack trace (in full at the end of this post), however, there were…

custom sort functions with javascript

2018-12-14

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~4 min read

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613 words

Javascript’s built-in sort is powerful and fast. However, there are many times when you will want to sort in a custom fashion. Whenever I…

error handling: uncaught typeerror: this.searchdb is not a function

2018-12-12

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~2 min read

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248 words

While working on a React project, I came across the following error: is a method on my component that is called when certain buttons are…

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