Go-inspired HTTP clients in JavaScript
A description of how I build HTTP clients for external APIs I integrate with. The design philosophy is heavily influenced by Go.
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Using Environment Variables
After writing tests for functions that depended on environment variables became a chore, we asked ourselves a few questions, and arrived at the conclusion that, in our application logic, we might be using environment variables the wrong way.
ActiveRecord Should Ask For More Than ID
To use or not to use database triggers, and functions default values for ActiveRecord models?
Function Parameters
Functions are the staple of programming. In this post I recount frustrations programmers have unintentionally created for ourselves by creating functions that take several arguments. I argue that every function should take a maximum of 2 arguments.