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How to bump all your dependencies

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Sometimes, you want to bump all your libs to newest version. If they also depend on each other, you may run into version conflicts. One of the way how to do it with bower (and likely also npm) is: Read more

The Agent, The Tool and The Act

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Reality bites in different ways, almost always bringing up some edge case. In today's world of the mobile apps, there are lots of events and one needs to track referrers (which traffic source led to Read more

Leaving Github

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Yes, as the title says, I am going to leave Github. The story started in July 2015. After I finished ECOOP, tired, I logged into github to see what’s new (during conference, I did not check it, I Read more

O kanbane

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Keď sa to vysvetlí, nie je to vlastne nič svetoborného. Každý by na to mohol prísť. Áno, ale pozitívne výsledky tohto malého nápadu sú skryté v disciplinovanom dodržiavaní. Kanban Read more

Branching message chain (was: Customizing Cascade)

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So I touched React Native and got my hands on JSX for the first time. I hope it's not only me, but in many times before, I felt I need something in Amber to better specify tree hierarchies (thinking Read more

Silk is just too flexible

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Oscillating indecisiveness personified as an essay Introduction Silk¹ is the young, in-development library for Amber Smalltalk for creating and manipulation of the DOM elements of a host web page Read more

On commits and history and also on people

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On Github I recently became a part of a sort of a cultural clash over the topic of git commit granularity and structure of a project history. This opened a question on what values do I prefer and Read more

Empowered data

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This proposal tries not to add new entities into the language, it only tries to take what already is there and reusing it mercilessly. Also number of abstractions is lowered, since some of them could Read more

Boolean shortcuts

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Booleans are very nice concept, but can get bulky. That is why people may avoid using it, sometimes. Moreover, booleans are often put inside nice "traity" names like isRetired or done which are nice Read more

Consolidated core

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Finally I have made a version which is consolidated to my liking. The need to setup the domain at two places was solved by putting a default domain in the storage and slightly modifying boot.js: // Read more
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