Writing

Notes from building.

Longer-form thoughts on shipping products, the immigrant-in-Finland experience, and whatever else I'm working through. Covers a mix of things, so use the tags to jump to what you care about.

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Pub quiz nights in Helsinki, an ongoing list

I spent two months in California joining pop quizzes as an excuse to leave the house and meet people. Back in Helsinki, working from home most days, I went looking for the same thing here. Four so far.

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My First Real Taste of Git Power: Fixing a Bug After an npm Upgrade

Inheriting an unversioned project, staging an npm upgrade, and using git rebase to carry a bug fix forward through the rest of the commit history.

Icarus and the npm Updates: How Version Control Rescued My npm Upgrade Nightmare

The longer, messier version of the npm upgrade story: what happens when you skip the staged approach, upgrade every major version at once, and it doesn't work.

I bet you didn't know this about Javascript Arrays: The Javascript Array Constructor Quirk

A quirk in how the Array constructor behaves differently from array literal notation, depending on what you pass it.

Pass-By-Value or Reference in Javascript: A look into Primitives and Non-Primitives

Why changing a variable that holds an object can affect another variable pointing at the same object, while changing a number never does.

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How to Add Base Maps to QGIS

Connecting an XYZ tile source to QGIS for a background map, plus a list of base map sources to try.

Yup.js validation in React without a third library

Wiring Yup.js schema validation directly into React state, without Formik or another connector library gluing the two together.

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