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Christmas Bells

> I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, and mild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will

A Stroke Of Inspiration

I was recently inspired to write my wife a poem. I love you Cuttlefish!

Cats

Why did it have to be cats? Photo by Jari Hytönen on Unsplash

Graphical Git Tools

Although I believe developers should learn git on the command line, graphical tools can be useful, especially for inspecting history. Last night a friend showed me a new one (below), so I thought I would list my favorites in this space.

Programming Featured

Code Comments And When To Use Them

tl;dr: Don't. Basically any information you might want to put in a code comment is better communicated somewhere else. Please read if you don't believe me.

Philosophy Featured

Living Intentionally

Why are you here? What is the point of your existence?

New Job

I started a new job a few weeks ago! I am now a Senior Developer at a prominent advertising agency. Photo by Thomas Quaritsch on Unsplash

Autumn

A poem about Fall Photo by Patrick Connor Klopf on Unsplash

Sleep

I hate going to bed, but I love sleep. Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

Parting Thoughts

Yesterday was my last day for my NetApp contract. After saying goodbye to the team on Slack, one of my coworkers responded with the quote below.

Lint Configurations

Copy-paste lint configuration setup for JavaScript and CSS.

Transfer Git Branch Across Repos

Quick guide for moving a commits in a git branch to a separate repository.

Destructure First And Last Element Of Array

Extracting the first and last items in a JavaScript array should be easier.

Web Development

Web Development Starter Pack

Getting started with web development is fun and exciting, but also frustrating, since you don't know what you don't know. Below are some links to many useful resources. Don't feel like you need to thoroughly explore each link; it is enough to get an idea of what's available. The web

A Gentle Introduction To Using Git

A Gentle Introduction To Using Git Terminology working directoryThis is the top-level directory (folder) that contains your project files. Once you initialize git (git init), your working directory will have a new .git directory in it. Everything you do related to your project will be done in this directory.repositoryA

A Lady, Her Truck And A Random Bird

A Lady, Her Truck And A Random Bird

Photo by Vincent van Zalinge on Unsplash

Modern Web Notes

Modern Web Variety Show 2017-01-24 by Tracy Lee (twitter [https://twitter.com/ladyleet]) (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/trianglemodernweb/events/235966025/]) Moe Long - Keynote JavaScript testing sucks. Mocha and Jasmine are okay-ish. Dan Wilson - Building Native With Angular NativeScript [https://www.nativescript.org/] and npm install nativescript Write

Triangle.rb Notes - Things To Look Out For In Rails 5

Things To Look Out For In Rails 5 2017-01-10 with Brandon Mathis [http://brandonmathis.me/] (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/236355556/]) History Rails 1 Rails 2 * Tiobe language popularity ranking [http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/] * EnvyLabs "commercials" * They did a whole series of "Rails Versus xxx", which might

Triangle.js Notes - React With Typescript

React With Typescript 2016-11-16 with Doug Miller [http://www.douglasallenmiller.com/] (meetup [https://www.meetup.com/Triangle-JavaScript/events/235486369/]) (slides [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12MI2CzetTwN5bx-Tq2t5UVUZCiug8OpFJQvUAJT3kpg] ) Static Typing Options For JavaScript * TypeScript [http://www.typescriptlang.org/] - Microsoft * flow [https://flowtype.org/] - Facebook Advantages And Disadvantages pros * better

Triangle Front End Notes - CSS Layout Techniques

CSS Layout Techniques 2016-11-03 by Bermon Painter [http://bermonpainter.com/] (Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/Triangle-Front-End-Developers/events/234560049/]) ( Twitter [https://twitter.com/bermonpainter]) Hardest problem on web... Horizontally and vertically centered box. body { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; } .box { height: 100px; width: 100px; } Previous best solution was floats with

Triangle Modern Web - Variety Show

Modern Web [http://www.modern-web.org/] Variety Show 2016-10-24 by Tracy Lee [https://www.thisdotmedia.com/] (Meetup [https://www.meetup.com/trianglemodernweb/events/234226919/]) (Twitter [https://twitter.com/ladyleet]) The inaugural meeting in the Triangle featured free food and several excellent speakers. MetLife [https://www.metlife.com/] hosted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon

Thought On React And Redux

Note: This post is in response to a client asking why a single state store is preferable to a more object-oriented approach with multiple objects, each managing its own state. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First, a caveat: I don't have much hands-on experience with React, and I've never used Redux, although I plan

Triangle.rb Notes - Ten Gems To Know About

Ten Gems To Know About 2016-07-12 by Brandon Mathis [http://brandonmathis.me/] (Meetup [http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/events/224075188/]) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. pry [https://rubygems.org/gems/pry] 1. pry-byebug [https://rubygems.org/gems/pry-byebug] (also byebug [https://rubygems.org/gems/byebug]) 2. awesome_print [https://rubygems.org/gems/awesome_

Thoughts On Setting Up A Greenfield Node Project

Basic Setup The choice is between a "traditional" server-side rendering setup or and API server with client-side rendering. I'm aware of full-stack frameworks like Meteor [https://www.meteor.com/], but that is complete overkill, at least for my current project. I'm looking for something that feels lightweight and has decent

JavaScript Prototype Functions

AKA "instance methods"! Constructor functions (any function you call with new) in JavaScript have a prototype property, which you can decorate with functions and other arbitrary values. When instantiating an object, these functions become instance methods. When calling a "method" (for instance foo.bar()), JavaScript will find the function foo.