A project of mine recently needed a simple FTP server that can give multiple different users access to the contents of specific directories (and only those directories). My technical requirements were stupid simple, the data I’d be dealing with wasn’t sensitive, and I wanted to avoid paying for an expensive
Read ItGuidelines for Pushing the Technological Envelope While Validating New Business Ventures
Read ItIt’s difficult to overstate the value of GitHub Actions in automating tasks we previously had to perform manually – deploying WordPress sites included. Recently, I was tasked with setting up a WordPress repository to automatically deploy to a WP Engine environment whenever a commit is made to a particular branch.
Read ItImagine we have some JavaScript on a page that updates an element’s contents and immediately logs those contents out: After loading the page, you’d correctly expect that “updated text” will be displayed on the screen. And when it’s exposed via
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Read ItA while back, I began contributing to a small JavaScript library responsible for sending a POST request with some data to an endpoint. At the time, it used axios to make that request, and I wanted to simplify things by shedding a dependency. The obvious alternative was fetch – modern,
Read ItA post on behalf of my team about why growing in your craft requires writing more than just code.
Read ItA guest post on CSS Tricks in which I explore some of the times you might consider using “old school” approaches in JavaScript in order to avoid particularly heavy Babel transformations.
Read ItModern iterations of JavaScript have introduced some nice methods that make writing code a lot more legible, performant, and fun to write. Take, for example, the find() method on the Array prototype, which allows you to elegantly retrieve the first item in an array that meets some condition.const players =
Read ItA while back, I started working in a Rails application in which I needed to introduce a JavaScript file that’d be compiled with Webpacker. To do so, I created the file in my packs directory and loaded it up via content_for: <% content_for(: body_assets) do %> <%= javascript_pack_tag("some-file") %><% end %>Locally,
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