Easily fixing security vulnerabilities in transitive dependencies with Yarn. It's 4:30 on a Friday and GitHub hits you with one of these: How do you make this go away and still get home on time? If GitHub's automated security fixes feels
Writing Type-safe Defaults with TypeScript's Pick Type A common pattern I use when writing TypeScript applications is creating default objects and overwriting some or all of those defaults with data provided by the user. But there's a common mistake when
Using Promises with FileReader Using `await` to handle FileReader's asynchronicity can be a lot simpler than dealing with events.
Pattern for Rendering Lists of Connected Components with React-Redux The key is in the second argument of your `mapStateToProps` function.
Deploying a TypeScript + Node AWS Lambda Function with Serverless Serverless plugins make developing Lambda apps with TypeScript painless (no webpack required!) This guide assumes you have TypeScript and Node installed as well as an AWS account. We'll be using serverless to set
Time & Space Complexity of Array.sort in V8 If you've ever looked at the syntax for sorting an array in JavaScript, you may have wondered how it works under the hood. The ECMAScript Spec is (intentionally, I would guess) vague about
Greedy Solution to an Array Balancing Problem A few weeks ago on reddit I read a question that asked for a solution to a fairly simple looking array balancing problem. But it turns out that a satisfactory solution isn't easy
Never Use Array.from() to Convert Strings to Arrays TL;DR: Splitting a string into an array is about 70 times faster with 'a string'.split('') than Array.from('a string'). In my interview prep I came across an article on
Simulating an Ability from World of Warcraft in JavaScript After working through Gordon Zhu's fantastic "Practical JavaScript" course, I wanted to make an app to put my newfound knowledge to the test. I like World of Warcraft, and I play
The First Step It seems natural to me that the first post on my programming blog should be how I got the blog up and running. I started with a clear vision in mind: I wanted
