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Years ago I was conversing with a friend in the field— a UX developer who worked at large Ruby consulting firm. It was the early teens, that is, 2010s, and Rails was taking off like wildfire within the startup scene of New York City. I...
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So your Rails application with a MySQL database was humming along and all of a sudden it hit this error: Mysql2::Error: Incorrect string value: '\xC5\x99\xC3\xA1k What does that mean? Upon inspection you realize that someone has typed into your website the all-too-favorite Millenial communication tool: the emoji....
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Since the global quarantine working-from-home, or remote work, seems to be everything anyone can talk about. About 15 years ago when I started my career, software engineers were a rare, abstract breed of professionals. People knew of this profession, talked about it, but few had met...
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I sit here as the World Health Organization declared last night a global pandemic due to COVID-19, and all everyone can seem to think or talk about is how scary this virus is. Nearly universally, as universities and events were canceled this week, workers across...
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The most essential Node packages to set up your React app today. (This article was written in the context of React versions 16.9, 16.10, and 16.11 in late 2019/early 2020) Absolutely Standard (you should install by default): • styled-components For creating styles inside of your components. • prop-types prop-types is used for...
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A photograph on the backdrop of coronavirus panick throughout the city. https://twitter.com/jiserra/status/1235365010077032448 Angus Grieve-Smith (@grvsmth) treated us to a display of how to audio interfaces using native web controls, appropriately titled "Web Audio With Javascript" Their website is grieve-smith.com Angus shows how to use native Javascript to...
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React's Virtual DOM arguably revolutionized web development. In short: React will keep a copy of the DOM in its own memory space. When you make updates, for example, several updates to component state, the React will manipulate the Virtual DOM first, performing all of the...
Read Morehttps://twitter.com/brooklyn_js/status/1216796709868711937 Thomas Bery told us about his project to build jambuds.club, a social listening platform he has been working on as passion project. Fil Zembowicz, who says he runs a company called FormSort, gave a talk called "Grappling with Higher Powers". @fzembow on twitter. Jessie Wu...
Read MoreIf you own an Apple Airport Express Base station model number A1088 (sold 2004-2008), it will no longer update with Apple Airport Utility 5.7. If you have a later version A1264 (sold 2008 to 2012) or (sold 2012 to 2018) it will continue to work with...
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