Upgrading Heroku Postgres Plan
Upgrading Heroku Postgres Plan
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2020
Library vs Framework
What is the difference between a Library and a Framework?
Git Merge vs Git Rebase
What is the differenct between git merge and git rebase?
JavaScript Custom Events
Modern web applications rely a lot on JavaScript, and different elements on a page may need to communicate with other elements. What happens if those elemen...
A case for expression reduction
As a software developer you will inevitably have to debug some piece of code you wrote months if not years ago, or code from a colleague that is no longer pa...
Build a simple calculator
The following is my solution to a coding challenge I’ve come across. I’ve implemented it in JavaScript since that is the language I am most comfortable with...
Alternatives to Zoom
Over the past few weeks businesses and people have been scrambling to adjust to a work from home way of life. People went searching for ways to communicate ...
How I Manage My ZSH Plugins
I am a big fan of zsh, so much so that part of my setup script contains instructions to install it and set it as the default shell.
Check for Palindromes in JavaScript
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backwards as it does forward.
Filtering unique values in an array
Here is a quick and easy way to filter all unique values from an array using the Array.filter and Array.indexOf methods.
Solving the staircase problem in JavaScript
The following is my solution to the Staircase problem. I’m using String.prototype.padStart to add the appropriate number of spaces in order to build the rise...
Find object in array by given key and value
At my current job we work a lot with collections, and one of the operations we run is pulling certain items from the collection based on some combination of ...
EARN IT Act is bad for end-to-end encryption
The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act is a bill that would allow the government to ban encryption on commerci...
How I configure Google Search on the browser
One of the first things I do when I install a fresh version of a Web Browser, is change the Default Search Engine to DuckDuckGo. I have been slowly moving t...
Welcome to my blog
After many years of recommending younger developer to start their own blog, I am finally taking my own advice.
2019
Use Intl.DateTimeFormat To Find Weekday From a Given Date String
I’ve recently been introduced to the Intl object, which is used as the namespace for the ECMAScript Internationalization API. It has a neat object called Da...
2018
What is a blockchain? Let’s build one and find out
BSDCoin — Big Sky Dev Coin
Microsoft Edge Legacy with VirtualBox
This guide was originally written for enotes.com development setup
2017
Understanding BEM
This post was originally written for the enotes.com engineering blog.
2015
Intro to Knockout Observables
This post was originally written for modernweb.com but never published.