While learning Node you may get to the point where you want to upload photos from your client to the backend. As someone who has struggled with Rails active storage in the past, I was delighted to find that uploading images to your server with Node is easy. All it…

In the strategy card game Arms & Influence, playing the right 2 cards during your turn could be the difference between winning and losing. Here are a few creative ways to combine your 2 actions during your turn to gain and advantage and win sweet, sweet victory points. Competition + Baby Boom Putting a…

I have just been hired for a company that is using Angular on their tech stack. In preparation to get started I am following a course on Udemy that I will link below. https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-guide-to-angular-2 I am a Javascript developer with experience in React. And although this course is absolutely amazing…

Have you ever wanted to embed Tweets, TikToks, Spotify songs, videos or pretty much anything else in your React sites? Or are you a developer that would like others to embed rich content from your website? One way that is widely used on the internet is called oEmbed. https://oembed.com/ oEmbed.com…

Maybe you are a budding software developer and you’ve been hearing about AWS and you are wondering it is exactly. You’ve heard a bunch of acronyms like S3 and EC2 and are afraid of how complicated it seems. Well this article is to clear up some basics about AWS and…

In part 1 I highlighted some of the basic features of Sass. Check out the first part here: Learn the SCSS (Sass) Basics in 5 Minutes If you’re reading this that probably means you are familiar with CSS and have heard of SCSS or Sass but haven’t yet…medium.com In this article I will go over the remaining features that make Sass great. Those are Extend/Inheritance & Operators. Extend/Inheritance Sass has a few ways of making it so we don’t have to…

If you’re reading this that probably means you are familiar with CSS and have heard of SCSS or Sass but haven’t yet taken a dive. Well good news. Sass is going to make your life much better. …

We launched Arms & Influence on September 17th, 2020. Since then we’ve shipped the game and people all around the world have played it. We’ve been grateful to have such an amazing reception to game. …

Set’s are a new type of Javascript object that was introduced in ES6 to take care of a multitude of issues that could not be taken care of with a normal Javascript or Array. The primary focus being only storing unique values. Unlike and Object or Map, Sets function a…