I’m getting a little tired of having to sporadically Google the same old git questions because they don’t come up often enough to stick in memory. So, I’m creating a cheat sheet. Yes, there are other cheat sheets out there, but I think it is a good exercise to build my own. It’ll start small... » read more
By the time I got interested in React, the transition from class-based to functional components was well underway (thank goodness) and the smart kids were using hooks everywhere while others were scratching their heads. One thing that isn’t immediately obvious in this move toward the function-based approach is, what happened to component lifecycle methods? One... » read more
there isn’t any* I found myself wondering about this because I tend to use the most succinct syntax above, while having an uncomfortable feeling in the back of my mind like my error object might be a bit lacking. Turns out I had nothing to worry about, my error object is definitely average, at least... » read more
So, for some reason, my connection to a remote db was very flaky today. This caused nodemon to crash in VS Code and trusty Ctrl-C didn’t get me out of it.
The alum channel from alchemy doesn’t get a lot of activity. But someone brought it to my attention today because it was all about me. Names redacted, but suffice it to say that these include some of the top performers from class who were rapidly picked up by local employers. I earned a reputation for... » read more
The fact is though, in mid-2020, with the rise of serverless and Jamstack, it just isn't fashionable to use WordPress if you're a developer. So, I immediately started down the road of Gatsby, Hugo, Next.js and the like.