Jacob Short·Dec 5, 2024A Programmer’s Road To Physical HealthHi! I’m a software engineer and I work at home. It’s great. Seriously, if you’ve never worked at home, try it. I have my own office and…
Jacob Short·Oct 28, 2024Concerning Rails: Simple Single-Purpose ServicesThe Single Responsibility Principle is a concept in the SOLID principles which states that all classes, modules, and methods should do one…
InJavaScript in Plain EnglishbyJacob Short·Jan 17, 2021Redux: Hook, Line, and SimpleThe React Redux guides are a bit verbose, to say the least, so I am hoping this quick start guide is simpler.
InJavaScript in Plain EnglishbyJacob Short·Jan 13, 2021Why Engineers Should Have Yearly ThemesTl;dr — Make a theme of how you want to grow for the foreseeable future. Something like ‘year of backend’ or ‘year of challenges’ if you…A response icon1A response icon1
InJavaScript in Plain EnglishbyJacob Short·Jan 5, 2021Setting Up Auth Guards with React RouterRendering certain routes or pages based on a user’s authentication is important and that’s why I was surprised to see that my googling…
Jacob Short·Dec 26, 2020How I Learned to CodeI am going to share the journey of how I learned to code in a series and continue to share the journey once I get a job. One thing that is…
Jacob Short·Dec 6, 2020Learning Node.js After RailsI started learning Ruby and the rails in Flatiron Coding Bootcamp somewhere around October of 2020; which is approximately two vaccines…
InThe StartupbyJacob Short·Nov 5, 2020Representational State Transfer (REST) Is a Convention That Is Simple and Much Needed in a…There are seven primary paths we use in Ruby on Rails. Get requests are pretty self-explanatory, they get data from a server. The naming…
Jacob Short·Oct 17, 2020Arguments, should you have them, and when. In Ruby.In Ruby you can set default argument to your functions like in many languages and there seems to be a need for hash argument information.
