Nick's Blog

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git-crypt cheatsheet

We can safely include sensitive files under version control by using git-crypt to transparently encrypt/decrypt specific files using either public/private keys registered with gpg or a symmetric key.

02 Jul 2019

Dependencies in NodeJS

Static dependencies are well managed by NodeJS but once require is too limiting then try dependency inversion and an inversion of control container.

16 Nov 2017

Javascript class names

Since javascript classes are just functions they have a name property, but it's probably best not to use it.

12 Sep 2017

ES6 Proxies

ES6 Proxies open up some easy meta programming options.

22 Jan 2016

Currying and composition

Functional composition is something relatively new to me so here are some building blocks I developed to understand it better.

18 Jan 2016

TILs

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