Saturday, November 17, 2018

Things that are hard: trivial POST request from the browser

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I'm trying to make a trivial web app. Why is this so hard? Glitch is an amazing site for making this, but its "simple node app&qu...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

Do Things Right with TypeScript

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A collection of pointers for the present and future. Print the whole error `tsc --noErrorTruncation` Why tsconfig.json is hard tsc...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Do Things Right with npm install

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Lately I've been wrestling with npm. Here are some rules I've learned: Use `npm ci` rather than `npm install` `npm ci` will bring...
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Horizonal goals

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Video version here There's this great, short book by John Kay called Obliquity . It's about goals that you can't achieve by ai...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

a reference to Deference

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I'm writing more over at Medium these days: https://medium.com/@jessitron/deference-or-collaboration-pick-one-13ab798f3192
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Reference: Typescript asynchronous sleep that returns a promise

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I want some code to execute after a delay. I want to do this with promises, in TypeScript, asynchronously. Apparently this is hard. Here is ...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Dictionary Objects in JavaScript and TypeScript

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TL;DR : when using an object as a dictionary in TypeScript/ES6, iterate through it using `Object.keys()`. Coming from statically typed lan...