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What are services in Vue?

joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson) — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:27:50 -0400

You might have heard the term “service” in relation to a Vue application. But looking through the Vue documentation, you might find that there isn’t any mention of what a service is at all.

An amazing demo playground for JavaScript - RunJS

joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson) — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:36:50 -0500

Recently, I was wanting to try out some of the functions in Lodash to see how they worked. I went to Repl.it at first because that’s been my go-to sandbox to play around in. But Repl.it, as nice as it is, is a little too big for a quick script to play around in.

Why does changing my copy change the original!

joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson) — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 16:36:50 -0500

Have you ever been working on your JavaScript code and changing the value of an object you were sure that you made a safe copy of only to have the original object change too?

Learning Programming is All About Learning Concepts

joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson) — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 10:44:50 -0500

One of the main pieces of advice that people give in learning programming is that you should pick a language and learn it. Just pick the language that you think you’ll most want to do, get a couple of classes or tutorials on it, and learn programming!

A Common Roadblock Going from Junior to Mid-level

joe@jerickson.net (Joe Erickson) — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:44:50 -0500

Have you ever worked on a coding problem and have to constantly stop to look up syntax? You’re almost at the solution to a problem and you know exactly what you need to do, you just don’t know exactly how to do it?