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Dec 15, 2020

How to Automagically Run Your Scripts

It’s cron. The answer is to use a cron job. — cron is probably my least-favorite Unix program name, except maybe grep. Such a useful command, but it is intimidating because of the name. “Just use a cronjob,” they say. Not descriptive or helpful. Fortunately, the gist of it is very simple: What script do you want to run? When do…

Bash

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Bash

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Published in The Startup

·Dec 9, 2020

An Introduction to Search Engine Optimization

Optimize your site for search engines, or something like that. — Your personal web site may not show up on the first page of Google’s search results. In fact, Google may not have it stored at all! Eventually, however, you may want your site to appear within a Google search. This is called Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. Although “search engine”…

Web Development

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An Introduction to Search Engine Optimization
An Introduction to Search Engine Optimization
Web Development

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Dec 2, 2020

When to use UseEffect

useEffect is for side effects. Although the new hooks are considered “functional React,” they still follow Object-Oriented Programming methodologies. For example, useState maps to the pre-existing this.state of the older class components. State was a pretty easy concept to understand. …

JavaScript

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JavaScript

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Nov 25, 2020

Understanding API Pagination

Any JSON API that holds a large list of data will give it to you through pagination. Returning ten million items at once will take a very long time. Instead there will be multiple pages, and you must iterate through each page to get it all. If you need to…

Python

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Understanding API Pagination
Understanding API Pagination
Python

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Nov 17, 2020

An Introduction to Redis for the Junior Developer

You may have heard of Redis.

Redis

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An Introduction to Redis for the Junior Developer
An Introduction to Redis for the Junior Developer
Redis

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Nov 12, 2020

Preparing for Nontechnical Questions in a Tech Interview

Many guides exist for the basics of interviewing. I want to take it one step further. Much like the way I write programming guides that are one step above beginner, this will be an interview guide for being one step above beginner. We will take some introductory concepts, and extend…

Interviewing

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Preparing for Nontechnical Questions in a Tech Interview
Preparing for Nontechnical Questions in a Tech Interview
Interviewing

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Nov 3, 2020

Improving your Website Preview Cards on LinkedIn

LinkedIn has a nice feature of “unfurling” links. When you add a URL in a post or your “featured” profile section, LinkedIn will show a small preview of the site you are linking to. This includes a title, description, and image. However, you might notice that when you host a…

LinkedIn

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Improving your Website Preview Cards on LinkedIn
Improving your Website Preview Cards on LinkedIn
LinkedIn

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Published in The Startup

·Oct 27, 2020

Hooking Git

Hooks are an amazingly useful feature of git. Once your repository gets to a medium size, you may want to make a few quick checks whenever you commit. For example, you could run a linter, check for TODOs, or even auto-send emails! …

Git

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Git

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Oct 21, 2020

Debugging Medium Images

A Dive Into Some Odd Aspects of Medium’s Platform I always enjoy reading about large and complex problems, but sometimes it is interesting to dive into a tiny incongruity. I write my blogs in markdown, then post them to my personal site, then import them to Medium. I try to be as lazy as possible, so I have been…

JavaScript

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Debugging Medium Images
Debugging Medium Images
JavaScript

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Published in The Startup

·Oct 14, 2020

Navigating an Unfamiliar Codebase (With Github & VSCode)

As a follow-up for my previous post, I thought I would look at VSCode from a more intermediate level. Specifically, getting into a larger codebase. Once you get a job, or join an open-source project, you will be thrown head-first into a large codebase. …

Git

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Navigating an Unfamiliar Codebase (With Github & VSCode)
Navigating an Unfamiliar Codebase (With Github & VSCode)
Git

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