After installing react-native, I was trying to initialize my first project for a shopping list tutorial. Running the command react-native init ShoppingList, I ran into some errors. At the point where I was trying to initialize my React Native project, I was receiving an error that I needed to install a package called Cocoapods. I …
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Working can cause alot of struggle and pain. I’ve been working on some projects and the past couple of weeks have been frustrating and boring. It can be difficult to push yourself though when things are boring, but it makes sense. Each time you push through, you’re practicing for the big show. It’s another brick …
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Sometimes web development projects are extremely engaging, and other times they can feel like a drag. I have found that when I’m working in code, for me, this tends to be a more fun process. Especially when I am doing something more complex. The more complex it is, the more fun I have. You’re a …
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If I don’t want to be the best in the world at web development, why am I doing it? This is a question that Seth Godin brought up in his book, The Dip. The obvious answer would be that it is just a job to pay the bills. Which in some sense is true. When …
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The Dip is a short book by Seth Godin, where he talks about the struggle that takes place after starting a new endeavor – a career, business, entreprenurial venture, hobby. The struggle is The Dip that happens after the start of our venture, and continues before the J curve starts going up, and we really …
What is the point of having goals? They allow us to go closer towards some kind of life and freedom that we want. I think it’s important to have goals as they help us to guide our way. I think Tony Robbins or someone said that having a goal is like having a destination and …
Career & Financial Goals – Choosing the most crucial things to go after for freedom Read More »
I feel that the most fun I’m having when doing web dev is actually when I’m doing programming, rather than working in a GUI like WordPress or Divi. I enjoy the nature of solving puzzles, and building custom solutions with pure code. There’s something very creative and technical about it, and there’s something that just …
What I Love About Web Development – Focusing on the Best Projects Read More »
In this post I only want to show the formatting for a nested ternary operator, because this formatting took me a while to figure out. For my application, I used a function that took two arguments, and each one decided the value of a respective ternary inside of the function. See the example below: The …
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Using React Hooks Suppose we have the following state of objects nested within an array: In order to edit one of the ingredients without mutating the original state, we need to first make a copy of the original array. We can do this with the spread operator, or .slice(): Or: Now, we may be tempted …
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This is a short blog post explaining a revelation I had with useEffect in React, that has probably been causing me problems for a while, since I did not know why my component was not reading the updated props. Why won’t my component register the changed values of props??? The answer for me was that …
