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by Frank Lin
Seamless integration Cmder in Hyper
Hyper looks pretty good and Cmder offers lots of functions. Why not combining them together to get a better terminal on Windows.
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by Frank Lin
Get a JavaScript array with unique values
As I need to update an array in Firestore with duplicate-free values, let's summarise the methods I found and see how they perform.
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by Frank Lin
Loop with async and await in JavaScript
Well, just got some problems in JavaScript loop with http request inside. Take a short note showing how to deal with it which got ideas from the post JavaScript: async/await with forEach().
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by Frank Lin
National Geographic Photo of the Day Downloader for Mac OSX
A shell script to automate the process of downloading National Geographic photo of the day. The script downloads the photo of the day in the same directory that it resides. You can use cron to make it automatically running everyday.
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npm install, concerns for me
While learning node.js, install packages is a commonly operation. However, as a newbie, I might install the packages not in the right way. So taking this note to refresh my mind on the npm install.
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by Frank Lin
Contact form for a static site without a backend
For a static site like those on GitHub Pages, everything is done in the frontend. The user just downloads a bunch of static files that execute in their browser. But for a "Contact" form, to deal with the submissions we typically need a backend service, either self hosted or a third a third-party service.
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by Frank Lin
Get your anaconda ready after brew install
Just add the anaconda into PATH after installing it with Homebrew. If no .bash_profile, you can append the "/usr/local/anaconda3/bin" to the paths file as well.
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