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Your AI Chatbot Is a Gatekeeper original ↗

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Clawdbot's Missing Layers original ↗

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Joining Voltus to work on climate!original ↗

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Why I'm turning my home into a virtual power plant original ↗

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Finding a job in climate as a front-end engineer original ↗

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Easily upgrade Ghost 0.x to 2.0 original ↗

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Which elements support shadow DOM?original ↗

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Don't use jQuery plugins with Shadow DOM original ↗

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Regarding the broken promise of Web Components original ↗

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Custom Elements That Work Anywhere original ↗

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Exploring HTML Imports original ↗

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RequireJS: Embracing the Awesomness of AMD Modules original ↗

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HTML5 Template Tag: Introduction original ↗

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A RequireJS multi-page shimmed site: How-To original ↗

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Writing a Command Line Tool in Ruby original ↗

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Make Your Own jQuery Deferreds and Promises original ↗

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How to use EJS in Express original ↗

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Using jQuery Deferred to Load an Underscore Template original ↗

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Testing AMD Backbone Modules original ↗

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Mocking Requests with Mocha, Chai and Sinon original ↗

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Getting started with Mocha and Chai original ↗

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Backbone Events: Framework Communication original ↗

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Backbone Events: Adding Views to the DOM original ↗

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How do you switch between views in Backbone original ↗

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Exploring the Backbone Router and History API original ↗

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Some More Backbone.js Basics original ↗

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Hacking the PATH variable in Sublime Text original ↗

15 May 2012

Pangrams in Ruby original ↗

10 May 2012

Building a Simple Scraper with Nokogiri in Ruby original ↗

6 May 2012

D3 Basics: The Linear Scale original ↗

4 May 2012

D3 Basics: An Introduction To Scales original ↗

3 May 2012

D3.js and Octopress original ↗

2 May 2012

Ruby Objects and Dot Syntax original ↗

1 May 2012

Playing with Ruby Dates original ↗

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2011

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NoMethodError in Rails 3 original ↗

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