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Perfume Series Part 2: Sales assistants at department stores are terrifying
Continued from Part 1 of a series where I talk about perfume and smells.
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Part 1: Nail polish made me puke
This is usually a technical blog, but I’ll be taking a break from the usual programming of programming-related posts (hah, pun) to talk about my other closeted obsession: smells.
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On Saying "I don't know"
I recently found myself learning the difference between shims and polyfills. I have heard both terms on many occasions but never had the guts to ask for details, with much regret. So I tweeted the following:
Read more »There's so much terminology in the JavaScript world. It is totally okay to say: "I don't know what that is, could you tell me about it?"
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Browserify, ES6 and Rails integration notes
Some notes on integrating Browserify in our Viki Rails app via the browserify-rails gem and getting it to play nice with ES6 and
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What does Sher Minn snack on every day?
I logged my snack intake for a month and made charts out of it.
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My Recurse Center Experience
I spent 3 months at the Recurse Center (RC) in NYC last year. I’ve been meaning to write about the experience itself, and what happened after for awhile now, so here goes! I’ve also had a lot of similar questions from people who are curious about RC, and so I thought I’d gather the questions and my answers to them in a blog post.
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Clearing saved app data on MacOS X
In which I poke around ~/Library to hunt down vestiges of saved app data to stop GifLoopCoder from hanging on me.
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How to think in CSS?
For those who are new to front-end web development, CSS can seem like this weird, magical realm full of rules that do not make much sense. This article is about the approach I take to ‘CSS-ing’ a project. Given a vision of a webpage, how should we go about creating it?
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