building ascii art for the command line with node

2020-07-07

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~1 min read

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148 words

I was digging through the source code of the Serverless CLI recently when I came across this little nugget that I thought was really cool…

delete vs truncate in sql

2020-07-06

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~1 min read

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194 words

I was fiddling with some test databases recently when a colleague suggested I could wipe the entire database (without dropping the table…

passing arguments into exceptions in python

2020-07-04

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~1 min read

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146 words

Previously, I wrote about raising custom exceptions, but it was a hamstrung approach. It didn’t actually enable any information to be passed…

native http requests with nodejs

2020-07-03

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~4 min read

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751 words

When making network requests with Javascript there are a number of options. One of my favorites is fetch, native and promise based it…

killing processes

2020-07-02

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~2 min read

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262 words

UNIX systems come with a utility, which, as might be expected, terminates processes. I wrote about it previously in the context of killing…

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