And what are the skills that comprise a full-stack project team? — When I started building web applications in 1995 they were called data driven websites and the exciting jargon of the day was “three tier”. The idea was that a web app had three tiers. The Front End, which ran in the browser, displayed the ‘view’ tier, while, over in the…

Care and handling of pure and simple vs display, and self-managed components — I’ve been working, as part of a team, on a project recently, building a React component library for use within a number of related corporate environments. As part of this process we’ve found it makes sense to classify the components in terms of where they get their data from. We’ve…

Because recursion rules. — A very common pattern when ingesting data from an API involves indexing that data within your app so you can read it back without searching. An example Let’s say you have an API that returns a list of items, such as. const ITEMS = [ { title: 'The…

And what’s a shitcoin? — TL;DR If Bitcoin is digital gold, then Ether is digital fuel, and most of the De-Fi coins, and NFTs you hear about are layered on top of Ether. Disclaimer Nothing I say constitutes financial advice; I’m not a financial advisor, I’m just someone into technology and art and their numerous intersections, and…

A form-letter for your clean-air taxing local senator or local member — Dear (insert correct salutation), I am voter in the electorate of (insert the name of your electorate) and write to you as someone who is concerned about the proposed introduction of a clean-air tax, aka an electric vehicle road-use tax. refs: pick one, or find another - https://thedriven.io/2020/11/11/south-australia-to-impose-road-user-tax-on-electric-vehicles-from-2021/ - https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/pallas-zaps-electric-cars-with-road-charge-20201121-p56gp3.html

Finally a way to create and sell digital originals. — Back in 1993 Jesse Reynolds and I started a company called Virtual Artists. The original intent was to use it as a vehicle for creating what we called at the time, Virtual Art. We did a bunch of interesting stuff…

My first PR for the year, and a lesson to us all. — I ran git pull upstream develop and was quietly relieved to see that no-one had changed anything over xMas. I ran git push just to make sure my fork was in sync. The package.json file has a preprocessor step when running git push that lints and tests everything before it…

In the age of Covid 19 — It’s almost xMass and typically, each year, I like to get over to Adelaide, South Australia to catch up with family and friends during that period of enforced annual leave. Normally I’d fly. This year however I’m very keen to attempt the drive, having finally bought myself my first car. …

Judicious use of map and reduce functions is a core skill, but one seldom used effectively. — The map function is something offered by all Iterable objects (Arrays, Sets, Lists, etc) and allows you to iterate through the items, apply a transformation to the item, and returns a corresponding collection of the transformed items. export const VERBS = ['start', 'stop'] export const ACTIONS = VERBS.map(verb => import(`acts/${verb}`))