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My guiding value of frontend development: Changability

TLDR: TypeScript vs JavaScript is a programming war. A war over dynamic typing vs static typing. My view is that TypeScript introduces too many concepts to be worth it's benefits.

Exploring a nagging feeling

Feelings, in my view, are signals, they exist to communicate complex thoughts. Often, I've found myself saying, that

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Buddy Williams

Lead Full-stack Developer

• Atlanta, GA 30318
• (678) 697-5188 or buddywilliams [at] gmail [dot] com
• Twitter, Github, LinkedIn, Blog

About

• Experienced full-stack developer focused on the front-end and what’s best for users. I specialize in technology innovation within startups. I spend most of my time thinking about the future and what I can do to shape it.

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// Run this function after page load
// Example: sortOptions('select#wsl_categories option')
function sortOptions(selector) {
  let $ = window.jQuery;
  let options = jQuery(selector);

  let arr = options
    .map(function (_, option) {
      return {
        text: jQuery(option).text(),

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var icons = {
  "cog": {
    "search": "cog settings"
  },
  "disk": {
    "search": "disk save"
  }
}

function search(icons, searchString) {

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package mapkeys

import (
  "encoding/json"
)

type Json struct { 
  People map[string]Person `json:"people"` 
}

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function Component(data) {
  var self = this;
  this.app = document.querySelector('#app');
  this.setState(data);

  document.querySelector('#reset').addEventListener('click', function() {
    self.setState(data);
  });

  document.querySelector('#change').addEventListener('click', function() {

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class Dog
  def speak
    puts 'Ruff! Grr! Roof! Rawr!'
  end
end

class Cat
  def speak
    puts 'Meeeow...'
  end

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// Run with browser devtools or nodejs

function flat (array) {
  var out = []
  array || (array = [])

  function recur (internalArray) {
    for (var i=0; i<internalArray.length; i++) {
      var item = internalArray[i]
      if (Array.isArray(item)) {

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word = "Vadar"
guesses = ["a", "r"]
revealed_word = word.chars.map { |c|
  guesses.include?(c) ? c : '-'
}.join('')

puts revealed_word

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(ns mybudgetbuddy-clj.core
  (:use compojure.core
        ring.middleware.json
        ring.util.response)
  (:require
    [ring.adapter.jetty :as jetty]))

(defn index [request] (response {:say "hello world"}))

(defroutes main-routes