PowerShell is awesome if you haven’t used it but it’s absolutely foreign if you’re used to Unix-like Bash-like shells. For instance, there’s no grep, and ls -al won’t work (but ls will and it’ll display all files with details!). If you switch from Linux to Windows, you might be tempted to either install Cygwin or […]
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Loads of people have been asking me how I write my JavaScript — okay, that’s a lie, no one asks me that but if they did, I’d like to point them to this article. I adopted my code style over the years, after reading Clean Code (and other books), after using years of PHP. Yes, […]
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Reflecting on my past accomplishments in development helps me keep up pace in my life and appreciate my own efforts. It doesn’t matter if those were efforts were great or not, just that they were there. I wrote my 2017 and 3/4 overview just a few months back and not much has changed since then. […]
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I decided to look at a few articles that really changed my outlook on productivity, development, and product development. I figured the best way to keep in mind all of the lessons I’ve learned was to write out notes on these articles and what they really taught me, especially actionable items. 200 Productive Hours A […]
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“Getting Things Done” is by far one of my favorite systems for tracking todo items and productivity. Even when I migrate to another system, a little bit of GTD rears its head. Whether that’s tagging by relevant location, tagging by interest, or whatever else. Other than GTD, I’m a productivity junkie. I like figuring out […]
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A quick conceptual intro to using Javascript’s ES2016 feature: async/await as a replacement for callbacks and Promises.
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One of the joys of programming for me has always been learning and discovery. I loved the idea of digging deeper and deeper into a topic or language or a framework to learn more and become a better developer. In a way, being a programmer is like being in an RPG (especially one like Morrowind […]
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Every 6 months to a year, I like to write a post that reflects back on what I’ve learned, where I plan on heading, and how that compares to my original plan. Without further ado, time to look at what’s happened. Goals more app development more open source libraries more languages (elixir, go) more youtube […]
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I rarely mention this but I started using VueJS back when version 0.10.0 was out. Back then, VueJS was an interesting mashup for KnockoutJS and AngularJS semantics (and…it’s still is, right?). I haven’t touched it since because the update for 0.12 or 0.11, I can’t exactly recall, broke a bunch of APIs and well, life […]
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Game Development I started a CodePen collection called GameDev to explore some GameDev concepts. The first one, I explored was a basic loop: The code for a loop is super simple. Here’s what it basically boils down to: function start() { // setup and persistent state goes here window.requestAnimationFrame(update); // queue update function update() { […]
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