Vijay Singh vijayksingh

A series of posts on css-in-js

0. styles as objects

First, an exercise. Can we represent all of css with plain data? Let's try.

let redText = { color: 'red' };

Monolithic Components, Composable Components

Introduction

Building reusable UI components is a non trivial task, as we need to anticipate a number of things when planing for reuseability. On the one end of the spectrum we want to enable customization and on the other side we want to avoid developers doing the wrong thing, like breaking the component or displaying invalid states.

To get a better understanding of what we need to think about and consider upfront, we will build a non-trivial UI component, that displays tags. Our Tags component will take care of managing and displaying tags.

The following examples are all built with Tachyons and React, but these ideas apply to any UI component and any general styling approach.

Everything I Know About UI Routing

Definitions

Location - The location of the application. Usually just a URL, but the location can contain multiple pieces of information that can be used by an app
1. pathname - The "file/directory" portion of the URL, like invoices/123
2. search - The stuff after ? in a URL like /assignments?showGrades=1.
3. query - A parsed version of search, usually an object but not a standard browser feature.
4. hash - The # portion of the URL. This is not available to servers in request.url so its client only. By default it means which part of the page the user should be scrolled to, but developers use it for various things.
5. state - Object associated with a location. Think of it like a hidden URL query. It's state you want to keep with a specific location, but you don't want it to be visible in the URL.

Agile Contract Guide

This document is a guide to writing agile contracts. Unlike traditional contracts, an agile contract does not specify individual tasks to be completed by the Contractor. Rather, an agile contract specifies how the Client and Contractor interact, and how the Contractor is paid. The Deliverable Work performed for the contract is determined through an ongoing collaboration between the Client and the Contractor.

Agile contracts require a great deal of trust from both the Client and the Contractor. This trust is fostered through tight feedback cycles and well-defined responsibilities that both parties can expect from each other. More so than traditional contracts, an agile contract requires active participation from the Client.

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Reset mysql root password in Mac OS:

First Stop MySQL:

Go to: 'System Preferences' >> 'MySQL' and stop MySQL

OR,

sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop

Proving that 1 + 1 = 2 in Rust

The fact that 1 + 1 is equal to 2 is one of those things that is so obvious it may be hard to justify why. Fortunately mathematicians have devised a way of formalizing arithmetic and subsequently proving that 1 + 1 = 2. Natural numbers are based on the Peano axioms. They are a set of simple rules that define (along with a formal system) what natural numbers are. So in order to prove 1 + 1 = 2 in Rust we first need a formal system capable of handling logic. The formal system that we'll be using is not some random crate, but Rust's type system itself! We will not have any runtime code, instead the type checker will do all the work for us.

Implementing the Peano axioms

First let's go trough the Peano axioms. The first axiom is that "Zero is a natural number". Basically what it says is that zero exists. In order to express that in the type system, we just write:

Quite simply, because Observables can encapsulate many different types of sources and those sources don't necessarily have to obey that interface. Some like Promises always attempt to eagerly compete.

Consider:

const promise = $.get('https://www.google.com');

	/**
	* When manually subscribing to an observable in a view component, developers are traditionally required
	* to unsubscribe during ngOnDestroy. This utility method auto-configures and manages that relationship
	* by watching the DOM with a MutationObserver and internally using the takeUntil RxJS operator.
	*
	* Angular 7 has stricter enforcements and throws errors with monkey-patching of view component life-cycle methods.
	* Here is an updated version that uses MutationObserver to accomplish the same goal.
	*
	* @code
	*

	import {
	Component,
	OnInit,
	Input,
	ViewChild,
	ElementRef,
	HostBinding
	} from '@angular/core';

	@Component({