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Integrating Google diff-match-patch with AutoMerge.Text

September 23, 2018 Lorefnon Leave a comment

This post outlines the use of Google’s diff-match-patch library to generate patches that can be translated to operations against an…

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Posted in: Javascript, Popular Posts, Web Development

Integrating Next.js, Apollo Server and Koa

August 18, 2018 Lorefnon Leave a comment

It is fairly straightforward to add a GraphQL API powered by Apollo Server to a Next.js application through a koa…

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Posted in: Javascript, Node.js, Popular Posts, Web Development

Getting productive with selection and navigation in Emacs

July 14, 2018 Lorefnon 4 Comments

This post is intended to primarily benefit people coming from other, so called “modern” editors to Emacs. Emacs veterans are…

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Posted in: Emacs, Popular Posts

ReasonML vs TypeScript – First impressions

May 13, 2018 Lorefnon 11 Comments

This post summarizes preliminary observations while comparing ReasonML and TypeScript during selection of a reasonably (pun-intended) type safe language for…

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Posted in: Frontend, Functional Programming, Popular Posts, ReasonML, Typescript, Web Development

Typescript and validations at runtime boundaries

March 25, 2018 Lorefnon 9 Comments

Typescript team has explicitly stated that they don’t intend to extend typescript’s static type checking to the runtime. Typescript Design…

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Posted in: Functional Programming, Javascript, Popular Posts, Typescript, Web Development

Side effects in Redux : Thunks vs Sagas

November 23, 2016 Lorefnon

Predictability and Side-effects Redux advertises itself as a predictable state container. This predictability comes at a cost: Your actions that…

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Posted in: Frontend, Functional Programming, Popular Posts, Redux

Database driven scheduling with Clockwork and ActiveJob

March 31, 2016 Lorefnon

An introductory tutorial on making event scheduling management more accessible and configurable to administrators through database driven admin interfaces in…

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Posted in: Popular Posts, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Uncategorized

Boost your content focussed site with Structured Page Fragments

November 26, 2015 Lorefnon

Eliminate full page refreshes and reduce page transition latency, in your your Rails sites, using SPF.js – a library for…

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Posted in: Frontend, Popular Posts, Ruby, Ruby On Rails

Configuring Emacs as a productive development environment for Rails development

February 2, 2014 Lorefnon

While emacs is well known to be a very productive editor, there are a few additional steps one must take…

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Posted in: Popular Posts, Uncategorized
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