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Review: YDKJS Scopes & Closures
YDKJS Scopes & Closures is a must read...with caveats.Read More →
What Are Components and Props?
Components and props are the lifeblood of a React app. What are they and how do they work?Read More →
Update: Lots of Things Happening
I thought I’d post a short update about why I haven’t been blogging as much.Read More →
The Beautiful Mess That is Webflow
Sometimes low code is low value.Read More →
The Simplicity of Ruby
When I first started this blog, I was learning Ruby and I loved it.Read More →
The Web Developer Bootcamp
So I am still working on Check Yo Self, but, like I do, I jumped into another tutorial where you build stuff.Read More →
What Is React Reconciliation?
In order for React to be as fast as it is, it only needs to update the parts of the DOM that need it.Read More →
Prioritizing Tasks by Slowing Down
When life is whizzing by, take a minute to breathe.Read More →
New Opportunities
Sometimes, you just get lucky. Again.Read More →
Markdown Examples
View examples of all possible Markdown options.Read More →
Next.js Pages
Learn more about Next.js pages.Read More →
MVPs and Iterating Your Way to a Finished Product
Getting a project out the door is the most important thing you can do.Read More →
My iTerm2 Setup
This is another setup post but this time, it's iTerm2.Read More →
My VSCode Setup
Posts on editor setups are extremely popular. Here is mine.Read More →
Keeping Your Code Simple
Clever one-liners are all the rage but do we really need them to display how well we can code?Read More →
The Last of the Journey
This post will the last of its kind.Read More →
JavaScript Template Literals
In JavaScript, there wasn’t anything like string interpolation until ES6. Now, we have JavaScript Template Literals or Template Strings.Read More →
I Am Now Doing This Thing For Real
I have accepted an offer to join The Practical Dev as an apprentice software developer.Read More →
Productivity for Devs
While perusing The Practical Dev for new posts, I came across a post that intrigued me: Instant +100% command line productivity boost. Productivity for devs is something I’ve been meaning to write about. Now I have the impetus to do so.Read More →
Map: Another Higher Order Function
Map is another higher order function that goes through an array and doesn’t discard it but instead transforms/mutates it. Here, I’d like to get an array of all the names of the animals.Read More →
Mission DRY: Accomplished
When working with multiple levels of conditionals, it helps to DRY things up a bit: not repeating yourself can give performance gains as well as make your code more readable and elegant.Read More →
Flexing My CSS Muscles by Adding A Bit of Panache
A case study on a trial by fire primer on CSS.Read More →
End of Year Wrap-up and 2019 Goals
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.Read More →
Destructuring Objects in ES6
Destructuring is a way to extract values from nested arrays and objects. Read More →
First Feature and Pull Request
I created my first PR. I can’t tell you how long I’ve waited to make a PR on a project I believed in. I got that chance and it went well. Read More →
Finishing YelpCamp and Lessons Learned
So I have finished The Web Developer Bootcamp and the final project, YelpCamp, a full-stack Yelp clone built with Node, Express, Mongo, Mongoose, Passport.js, and Bootstrap.Read More →
My First Interview: A Love Story
Okay, so not really a love story, but a good one nevertheless.Read More →
ES6 Modules
ES6 modules allows us to have reusable code, in separate files. We do this to eliminate initially massive js files, like app.js in a Node and Express project. Modules allow us to spread code over relevant files.Read More →
Functional Programming in JavaScript? Yes Please.
One of the hot topics right now in the web development world is functional programming in the language of the web, JavaScript.Read More →
DRY Code: Using IIFEs to Clean Up Code
DRY: Don’t Repeat YourselfRead More →
Building a JavaScript CLI Tool
Building your first command line tool can be daunting. Here are some tips I discovered while building mine.Read More →
Check Yo Self Update: Eliminating Dev Dependencies
I worked like a fiend over the weekend on Check Yo Self, reading documentation, implementing features, and taking sone away.Read More →
Blog Posts on My Career and Work at Calaxy
With this new job comes a great team.Read More →
Background Image Hacks in CSS
Yesterday I found myself in a situation where the background image in my freeCodeCamp Weather App on mobile was cut off at the bottom. Needed some background image hacks in css to fix it. Read More →
A Year of Reflection and a Year to Move Forward
Sometimes it's just easier to know thyself.Read More →
A LinkedIn Learning Playlist for Corporate Newcomers
If you’re over 30 and have just made your way up from some place like Target as a cashier to having a nice, cushy dev job in a corporationRead More →
Big O Notation
What is meant by Big O and do we actually need to consider it when building software?Read More →
How to Bind this in React Without a Constructor
this in React is a reference to the current component. Read More →
End of Year Wrap-up and 2019 Goals
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.Read More →
2017 Wrap-up and 2018 Goals
Wrapping up a year is never one wants to do. At least I don't.Read More →
100 Days of Code, Day 12
Another 100 days of code entryRead More →
100 Days of Code Day 8
Another round of 100DaysOfCodeRead More →
I Need to Do Better
Practice? We talkin about practice?Read More →