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So I was having an issue in react-admin where the value of BooleanInput (e.g. a checkbox slider) was not saving to my backend. Specifically…

Use an interface (Typescript 2.2+) We can extend types in Typescript by using the extends keyword For example we can write: Use an…

Imagine how disappointed I was when I had plugged in my brand new iPad 2 and only to realize that it simply cannot sync with my iTunes. If…

When dealing with tag inputs from users, I find myself having to make sure they they don’t enter in any blank or empty tags. Then I realized…

Recently I was working on a few functions that I didn’t want to have activated immediately after hovered over a div. I neededthe functions…

A post about how to fix multiple rendering issues when using NextJS and tRPC

After having a ton of issues getting Netlify’s form submission to work, I have some tips on how to get it working if you’re running into any…

I was working on a new marketplace theme in Magento, and I kept getting a peculiar javascript error message. The exact error message that…

Most Jquery plugins act a lot like functions. They are attached to the main Jquery object, so essentially all we have to do is check that…

So last week I got a little tired of having to reboot my computer to dual-boot in a linux environment so that I could work on Rails stuff…

How to use a case-insensitive replaceAll in javascript

Well, this is the start to my blog. Hopefully I’ll post here often, but hopefully with something useful each time. I just don’t want to have…

Previous this website was built in Wordpress, but now I’ve built it using Gatsby. In my migration to Gatsby I felt like I needed to change…

How to do it Now you could use something like react-sticky to do something like this, but it’s so much easier to just define your sidebar…

So recently I had a coworker get slightly annoyed with me and my trailing whitespaces at the end of lines. I’m using Aptana and not anything…

When I was implementing pingback functionality in my custom blogging software, I needed to read files from a remote server. As long as allow…

One of the only Google app (apart from Gmail) that I use the most Google Notebook will have no more updates. Before I signed up to Google I…

Sorting using sort() Lets say that you have an array of objects that you wanted to sort by: You can use the sort() method of the Array that…

What does transformPhrase even mean? So sometimes when I’m trying to save a form in react-admin I see this really annoying error: Uncaught…

Paperclip is a plugin/gem created by the talented folks at ThoughtBot. It will make using attachments and uploads in your rails application…

There are times that you do not want a form to automatically submit when a user hits the enter key. Or if you want to do some validation via…

Here is something useful that I discovered in my programming for my personal websites. I needed to strip out the anchor portion of a link…