calculating the average of an array with reduce

2020-02-15

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~2 min read

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316 words

I had to find the average of a set with potentially undefined values. If a value was undefined, I wanted to skip it all together. For…

node version management... automatically

2020-02-14

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~2 min read

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380 words

NVM, the Node Version Manager, is an invaluable tool when working on multiple node projects. Instead of manually managing the globally…

bring the background job back to the foreground

2020-02-13

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~1 min read

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199 words

If you start running processes in the background, at some point, you may find you want to bring it back into focus. The utility seems…

running shell scripts in the background

2020-02-12

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~1 min read

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119 words

Continuing my recent trend of finding useful tips and tricks in the command line. Today, it was how to run multiple processes in parallel…

logical operators in bash

2020-02-11

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~2 min read

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212 words

When I’m working in bash, it’s common that I’ll want to sequence operations together so that one naturally follows another. For example…

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