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Wrestling with Apollo Local State and winning 🤼♂️
May 16, 2019This post originally posted on Yolk AI’s blog. As I am the author, I am publishing it here as well. Recently we bought into GraphQL and…
Hacking my Honeymoon with Javascript 🤣
May 01, 2019How I used a little javascript to book The Giraffe Manor in Kenya When my wife saw this post on Instagram, she was immediately hooked: With…
A job queue for a micro-service world 🌎
January 29, 2019An explanation into how we built a job queuing system for use in a micro-service context and how we contributed back our work along the way…
How Learning Elixir Made Me a Better Programmer 🥃
August 20, 2018After getting comfortable with a couple programming technologies, developers usually stop there; your job and the systems you maintain may…
The Best Parts of The Pragmatic Programmer 📚
March 11, 2018The Pragmatic Programmer remains relevant since its 1999 release, even though the software space is evolving at a Nascar-like pace. Standing…
My Mac Stack 🖥️
December 17, 2017The average workday goes as follows: Coworker comes to my desk to ask me a question Sees something radical happening on screen Asks why they…
Resolving tricky situations with git reset and rebase 🧶
October 01, 2017You should care about how clean your Git history is. It provides a way to communicate changes to a codebase with other developers who you…