Tips and tricks we've picked up along the way.
The Lost Art of the Makefile
I work on a lot of Javascript projects. The fashion in Javascript is to use build tools like Gulp or Webpack that are written and configured in Javascript. I want to talk about the merits of Make.
Software Engineer
I am always interested in making my coding process faster and more robust. I want to be confident that my code will work as expected. And I want to spend as little time as possible debugging, testing, and hunting down pieces of code that I forgot to update when I make changes to a project.
Software Engineer
The Value of Code Documentation
Code documentation is the collection of easy to understand images and written descriptions that explain what a codebase does and how it can be used.
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Pull Request Checklist
Pull requests are an essential collaborative tool for modern software development. I wanted to capture the kinds of questions a developer should ask themselves before asking another developer for a peer review.
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Benchmarking and Optimizing Slow JavaScript
While writing about optimizing data for performance, I rewrote my transformation function a few different ways and benchmarked the performance of each. Wow! The results were surprising.
CEO
Optimizing API Data for Faster Frontend Performance
Sometimes APIs return data in a form that's not ideal for the client. We can deal with this by applying data transformation functions to the incoming data, to reshape it into exactly what we need.
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Faster Iteration with Mock APIs
We frequently work on front-ends along side other teams building APIs. Sometimes those APIs are not yet available. But deadlines and sprint demos are approaching. Are we to sit around twiddling our thumbs? Nope!
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2017 Year in Review
JavaScript ES6 Map and Reduce Patterns
Over the past couple of months I've started to become a little bit more serious in applying functional programming techniques to my favorite client side language, JavaScript. In particular I've discovered the joy of using Map and Reduce.
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