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For a long time, I had my own blog at one place or another. For a while, it was just at explosion-pills.com, then I popped up ghost on a DigitalOcean droplet at blog.explosion-pills.com. Finally, explosionpills.com became available, and now blog.explosionpills.com redirects to this medium blog that you’re reading through CloudFlare.

Deciding to move to Medium

I personally know a couple of people who use Medium as a blogging platform, and of course I follow a lot of famous or semi-famous people who blog directly on Medium. It has functionality that I can't take the time to implement in blogging software that I manage myself even if I think I could theoretically do it. Here, readers have access to comments, highlighting, and of course a broad network of content creators.

https://medium.com/@ExplosionPills/rxjs-switch-switchmap-and-other-map-operations-e8ccdfb7e5a9 is more up-to-date.

Exploring RxJS still feels like a jungle to me. Even when I think I understand something, I find out that I actually don't understand it. In my quest to truly understand it, I end up learning quite a lot more about some other topics or operations than the one I was originally trying to understand. This is generally a positive thing, but it still feels like traveling deep into a jungle to me.

Just today I was trying to learn how to use ngrx/store with ngrx/effects to use http requests with an ngrx/store-backed app. This introduced me to the RxJS Observable switchMap operator that I was not familiar with. The main question I came up with -- the question that I usually have when

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