Delay a JavaScript Function with Debouncing
I came across the idea of "debouncing" last week. Although I am using `debounce` from the `lodash` library in my work, I...
How to Prepare for a Software Bootcamp: The Non-Te...
A software engineering bootcamp is an exciting moment in your career. Congrats on making the decision! Congrats on the s...
Add a Mobile Menu to Create React App with react-b...
A hamburger menu -- the three lines that you can click on to expand into a nav menu -- is almost always a necessity on w...
Advent of Code 2023 in JavaScript: Day 5, Part 1
Day 5 was 87% understanding what the problem was asking and 13% solving. Then it was apparently 92% waiting for code to ...
Advent of Code 2023 in JavaScript: Day 4, Part 2
Yesterday, I solved Part 1 of Advent of Code Day 4 in JavaScript, but the need for sleep won out before I could puzzle o...
Advent of Code 2023 in JavaScript: Day 4, Part 1
Today started out strong and then fell apart. For Day 4 of Advent of Code in JavaScript, I have tests and a solution for...
Advent of Code 2023 in JavaScript: Day 3
Day 3 was a tough one for me. My Advent of Code JavaScript solution today is a brute force approach, but it does get the...
Advent of Code 2023 in JavaScript with Test Driven...
Day 2 of Advent of Code and I got to play a game with an elf, use a new (to me) matcher in Jest, and practice some pseud...
Advent of Code 2023 in JavaScript with Test Driven...
’Tis the season for some coding. I’m giving Advent of Code a try this year and solving coding challenges in JavaScript. ...
SEO and Jamstack: Adding Meta Tags with Create Rea...
A website built with Create React App will often lack features that can be useful for SEO. This is how I added meta tags...
Algorithmic Puzzles: Getting Dressed in the Dark
I am headed back from Scotland today, currently sitting in the Frankfurt Airport after having woken up at 3am to catch m...
Algorithmic Puzzles: A Man, a Boat, and an Ill-Ad...
I hate algorithms. I love puzzles, but somehow when l combine logic puzzles with JavaScript (especially in the context o...
Adding Post Tags to a Strapi Blog
I got around to setting up tags for posts on my Strapi blog. I've been using Strapi for a few weeks now and I enjoy how ...
Learning a New Keyboard Layout
Wanting to take a short break from my coding projects, I decided I'd learn a new keyboard layout. I've used exclusively ...
Mocking the Django "order_by" QuerySet Method
This week at work, I took on the task of testing `order_by("?")` in our Django codebase. This line says that we want our...
Adding a Blog to a React Site with Headless CMS, P...
With my Strapi blog working the way I wanted in development, it was time to deploy it. I chose to use a (DigitalOcean "D...
Adding a Blog to a React Site with a Headless CMS ...
I was able to set up a headless CMS to manage a blog on my personal site. For a while, I've been interested in headless ...
React Router and Netlify Deployment
Timing can be funny, but it this case, it was perfect. I discovered I was having a problem with 404s on Netlify last nig...
Learning in Public...and Welcome
Hello. Welcome. I'm Juliane. I am a software engineer, and a newly minted one at that! I went the bootcamp route to get...