Miscellaneous notes

Here you'll find my miscellaneous, mostly-unsorted notes on various topics.

Project ideas

Various ideas for projects that I do not yet have the time, knowledge or energy to work on. Feel ...

Automatic authentication keys

Problem: Every website needs you to create an account. This is a pain to manage, and a barrier. T...

Javascript

Anything about Javascript in general, that isn't specific to Node.js.

Whirlwind tour of (correct) npm usage

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An overview of Javascript tooling

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Monolithic vs. modular - what's the difference?

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Synchronous vs. asynchronous

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What is state?

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Promises reading list

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The Promises FAQ - addressing the most common questions and misconceptions about Promises

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Error handling (with Promises)

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/c8d8cc4e6c2b57889446. I...

Bluebird Promise.try using ES6 Promises

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Please don't include minified builds in your npm packages!

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How to get the actual width of an element in jQuery, even with border-box: box-sizing

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A survey of unhandledRejection and rejectionHandled handlers

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Quill.js glossary

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Riot.js cheatsheet

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Quick reference for `checkit` validators

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ES Modules are terrible, actually

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A few notes on the "Gathering weak npm credentials" article

This article was originally published in 2017 at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/828532657d23d51...

Node.js

Things that are specific to Node.js. Note that things about Javascript in general, are found unde...

How to install Node.js applications, if you're not a Node.js developer

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Getting started with Node.js

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Node.js for PHP developers

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Rendering pages server-side with Express (and Pug)

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/c0069ab0e0da40cc7b54b8c...

Running a Node.js application using nvm as a systemd service

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Persistent state in Node.js

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node-gyp requirements

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Introduction to sessions

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Secure random values

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Checking file existence asynchronously

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Fixing "Buffer without new" deprecation warnings

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Why you shouldn't use Sails.js

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NixOS

Setting up Bookstack

Turned out to be pretty simple. deployment.secrets.bookstack-app-key = { source = "../private/...

A complete listing of operators in Nix, and their predence.

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/c3c047f3406aea9ec65eebc...

Setting up Hydra

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Stepping through builder steps in your custom packages

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Using dependencies in your build phases

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Source roots that need to be renamed before they can be used

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Error: `error: cannot coerce a function to a string`

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`buildInputs` vs. `nativeBuildInputs`?

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QMake ignores my `PREFIX`/`INSTALL_PREFIX`/etc. variables!

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Useful tools for working with NixOS

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