writing better commit messages

2020-02-05

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~6 min read

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1108 words

In a recent sprint retrospective, a teammate mentioned that we could help ourselves by adding more context to our pull requests. This got me…

finding the most recent date in an array, with conditions, using dayjs

2020-02-04

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~5 min read

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902 words

There are a lot of different ways to approach date math (I’ve written about some in the past), but recently, I had to find the best way to…

words make thoughts, or influence them at least: an introduction to the sapir-whorf hypothesis

2020-02-03

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~2 min read

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293 words

I recently heard about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. According to Wikipedia, the hypothesis, “is a principle claiming that the structure of a…

seeing people

2020-02-02

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~1 min read

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86 words

Over the holidays I read Dr. Stanley’s opinion in the Wall Street Journal, A Thank-You Note Helped Me Find My Calling. This quote about how…

change colors in chrome dev tools between hex, hsl, and rgb

2020-02-01

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~1 min read

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103 words

When debugging a website, I find myself frequently reaching for tools to convert between Hex, RGB, and HSL so that I can easily confirm if…

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