A Collection of Random Ideas
I present to you, in no particular order, a collection of random thoughts and ideas. Some may contradict others, some may make no sense and some may deeply resonate with you. All...
A Collection of Random Ideas
I present to you, in no particular order, a collection of random thoughts and ideas. Some may contradict others, some may make...
The Care and Feeding of the JavaScript Set OBject
Set is one of my favorite built-in object types in JavaScript. Today I’ll introduce the Set object and discuss some of its use cases.
Weekend Motivation Feb 21, 2020
With the weekend here, I want you to do one thing for me: Practice loving yourself. That's it. Love yourself. Perfection is...
Rails: Protect Devise when using OAuth
If you're using OAuth and Devise together in an application, you need to remove the Devise Authentication routes and still confirm your model won't...
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A Collection of Random Ideas
I present to you, in no particular order, a collection of random thoughts and ideas. Some may contradict others, some may make...
The Care and Feeding of the JavaScript Set OBject
Set is one of my favorite built-in object types in JavaScript. Today I’ll introduce the Set object and discuss some of its use cases.
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With the weekend here, I want you to do one thing for me: Practice loving yourself. That's it. Love yourself. Perfection is...
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