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The new Logical Assignment Operators in JavaScript
The latest version of ECMAScript introduced three new logical assignment operators: nullish, AND, and OR operators. These are supported from Firefox 79...
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I recently got the new Apple Silicon Mac (aka the M1 mac), and that means having to deal with the pain points...
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After seeing a lot of projects making the move to Typescript, I recently started to give it a shot as well. For...
Overcoming Procrastination and The Akrasia Effect
We all know what we should be doing right now. But we don't want to! That is procrastination in a nutshell.
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We are living in a width world and not a depth world, mostly having shallow conversations with everyone around us. Most of the non-family relationships...
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Using GroupBy on an array of objects in JavaScript
Array grouping is a fairly common operation in any project. Until recently, we had to resort to either writing our own implementation...
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Node.js recently introduced a node: protocol for built-in modules. Built-in node modules can now be imported by prefixing the node: protocol prefix.
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JSON Modules in JavaScript
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If you have user-generated content in your web application, chances are you have to deal with strings containing emojis. Since emojis are...
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CSS already has had conditionals in the form of @media queries or @support queries to selectively apply styling to the document. But...
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While automating some parts of my development workflow, I was wondering if there was a way of opening a browser with DevTools...
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