Blog Post Listing
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Blog post: How to Make an Anime Quote Maker More Awesome
Posted on August 20, 2021My quote maker remains my favorite code side project. So I can't help but keep adding more controls and features.
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Blog post: The Currying Introduction I Wish I Had
Posted on February 16, 2021Currying is a tricky yet major of JavaScript and functional programming. Sadly, it doesn't involve eating actual curry.
Blog post: Scheduling Blog Posts with Eleventy, Netlify, and IFTTT
Posted on October 27, 2020Eleventy makes it easy to automatically publish future blog posts with a little JavaScript and some outside app help.
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Blog post: How I Killed My Site's Webpack Processes
Posted on December 27, 2019Webpack is great, but too big a tool for my personal site. This is how I viciously murdered my Webpack processes for NPM scripts.
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Blog post: Checking Sudoku with Functional JavaScript
Posted on October 7, 2019A CodeWars challenge had me checking if Sudoku puzzles were solved correctly or not. I break down my solution using functional JavaScript
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Blog post: Cinderella and the Glass Structural Pattern - A Design Patterns Intro
Posted on September 9, 2019A beginning coder's guide to structural design patterns with an alternate telling of Cinderella.
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Blog post: Snow White and the Seven Behavioral Patterns - A Design Patterns Intro
Posted on July 24, 2019A beginning coder's guide to the other half of behavioral design patterns with an alternate telling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
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Blog post: Explaining (and Celebrating) my First Twitter Bot
Posted on July 8, 2019After weeks of looking for a workable approach, I finally build a Node Twitter bot to automatically share anime quote artwork.
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Blog post: A Metaphorical Introduction to Functional JavaScript
Posted on June 25, 2019Functional JavaScript is my new favorite approach to writing JavaScript, but few introductions I found were beginner friendly. I break down the basics with angels, mutants, and demanding southern belles.
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Blog post: Goldilocks and the Three Behavioral Patterns - A Design Patterns Intro
Posted on June 12, 2019A beginning coder's guide to half of the behavioral design patterns with an alternate telling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
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Blog post: The Three Little Creational Patterns - A Design Patterns Intro
Posted on May 30, 2019A beginning coder's guide to understanding creational design patterns with an alternate telling of The Three Little Pigs.
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Blog post: Eevees, Quizzes, and Singletons, Oh My!
Posted on April 5, 2019I celebrate a long-overdue side project by examining its most important pieces - services, singletons, and which Eeveelution matches my personality.
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Blog post: How to Refactor an Anime Newsletter
Posted on January 28, 2018I revisit my first real Node program to refactor it with more ES6 syntax, asynchronous functions, and anime wallpaper feeds.
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Blog post: How to Make an Anime Newsletter
Posted on July 30, 2017For my first web project that wasn't a website, I broke down a goal that involved Node, scheduled functions, the Twitter API, and a feed of anime wallpapers.