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Autocompleting Golang in Atom Text Editor
For a while now I’ve been using Atom as my go to text editor when building stuff for the web. While Apple have the expression “There’s an App for that”, the same could almost be said for Atom in regards to plugins. At my new workplace we are using Golang for some of the back end services and of course there is a plugin for that! The Go Plus plugin provides everything you need to be effective when writing Go in the Atom Editor.
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TIL: Better bug reporting with GIFs
Today I learned the effect of using gifs when creating bug reports or really, to explain anything. I recently needed a tool for doing quick screen captures and ended up using a tool called Droplr. At the same time I noticed that you could generate gifs from your screen captures with as much ease. I’ve found that it’s almost always easier to show how to create a bug than to write about it.
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Compiling riot.js tags using Webpack and Babel 6
We’ve started working with riot.js at work and so far it have been great. Last weekend I decided that it would be nice to update our dependencies in the project. As usual I thought to myself, how hard can it be? And as always, it’s usually not as easy as it seems from the start. We use webpack as a build tool and the riotjs-loader for compiling the riot tags into JavaScript.
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Learning ES6 - Default Values & Destructuring
Today, I thought that we could speak about two new features in ECMAScript 6 that are pretty useful when writing functions: default values and destructuring.
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Learning ES6 - Strings
There have been some improvements to the ways you can create and work with Strings in ECMAScript 6. For example, new methods were added to the String object. However, the most interesting addition is the new string literal syntax called template strings, and that’s what I’m going to talk about today.