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Make Or Break
This year was brutal. If there’s an upside to the socio-political turmoil in our country this year, it’s that I was less likely to let things go and I had the energy to stay focused on what mattered.
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Cancel Your Unresolved Promises
The halting problem; Promises don’t make it easy.
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Accessibility And Momentum
When I started learning web development, I wasn’t in a classroom. I didn’t have a teacher to impress upon me the importance of things like empathy, objectivity, and ethics. As I matured in the career, I became more humble, open to new ideas and basically not a jerk (forget what you’ve heard about me, they lied). But that transformation happened in minutes, not years.
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Publishing
For the prolific authors of the node world, new tools have emerged to assist with the daily toil of managing publish-release cycles. One tool I’m keeping an eye on is Greenkeeper.io. It basically does the combination of
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Memoize
While reading Javascript: The Good Parts, I encountered the word memoize for the first time. Although this was several years ago, I still revisit this idea from time to time.
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