Plotly Academy: State Management with Redux

Learn how to handle application state in a centralized store with Redux, the most popular unidirectional data flow library! Wow, wish I had stumbled upon this magnificent tutorial when I was just getting started with Redux. Well written, with a very good example. State Management with Redux → This article forms a good addition to …

10 Career Mistakes I Wish I Had Never Made

Darius Foroux: In the last decade, I went from student to entrepreneur to freelancer to climbing the corporate ladder to blogger to teacher. Yes, that’s not a normal career path, and it’s also not what I ever expected. But life hardly turns out the way you expect. That’s because we’re only human. And humans make …

The flex-grow: 9999; hack

Imagine a flex container (display: flex) with two flex items in a row (flex-direction: row). Item A on the left, and item B on the right. I would like the flex items to be stacked on top of each other when necessary. Item B has to jump onto the second line, if there’s not enough …

macOS Quick Look plugins for JavaScript, Markdown, JSON, …

The repository sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins has gathered a collection of some handy macOS Quick Look Plugins. Pictured above is a quick look preview of a JSON file. Installation of the plugins is possible via Homebrew. sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins → (via Freek, quite some time ago)

Day-O 2

Yesterday Shaun Inman released version 2 of the aforementioned Day-O for use with the most recent macOS versions. It’s been five years to the day since I released the original Day-O, a simple menu bar clock replacement with a simple icon and an equally simple fly-out calendar for your Mac. So simple. So clever. So …

ES6 ES2015 and React snippets for Sublime Text

babel-sublime-snippets contains a set of shorthands for Sublime Text to working more easily with ES2015 and React. With it, for example, you can just type cdup followed by a TAB and you’ll end up with componentDidUpdate(prevProps, prevState) {…}. Find it as Babel Snippets through Package Control. babel-sublime-snippets →