Brandon Conway

Mar 29, 2021

WooCommerce Compatibility Table

I’m working on upgrading an outdated WooCommerce site, and I was struggling to figure out which versions of PHP and Wordpress each version of WooCommerce would be compatible with. I went through WooCommerce’s release history on GitHub, which allowed me to find the latest patch version of each minor version…

WordPress

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WordPress

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The Startup

·Aug 2, 2020

How to Improve Your Git Checkout Process

August 01, 2020 TL;DR You will need FZF, git, and a linux/unix-based operating system to follow along. The same workflow is probably possible on Windows, but I don’t know how to do it. Here is the command, I recommend setting up an alias for it: git branch | fzf | xargs…

Fzf

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How to Improve Your Git Checkout Process

Fzf

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The Startup

·Jul 28, 2020

How to Deal With Circular Dependencies in React Hooks

July 27, 2020 TL;DR Use this hook: // This hook provides a ref which is perpetually up to date but will // not trigger any renders. This is useful for resolving circular // references in dependency arrays. export default function useNoRenderRef(currentValue) { const ref = useRef(currentValue); ref.current = currentValue; return ref…

React

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React

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May 31, 2020

How to Write a Faraday Request Middleware

Faraday is a very powerful tool, and you can make it even more powerful. TL;DR Check out the repo to see the files we create in this blog post. Welcome Faraday is a Ruby web request library. Ruby’s standard library includes tools such as Net::HTTP to make requests, but using them can…

Faraday

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Faraday

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Mar 11, 2020

How to fix libv8 “bad version” error when using mini_racer

TL;DR Run bundle update mini_racer The Issue I Experienced I’ve been dealing with issues on my Mac for a while, so yesterday I decided to give in and wipe it. I upgraded to MacOS Catalina, then wiped my partition and did a fresh install. In a few hours, I had almost everything running. Today, I…

Ruby

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How to fix libv8 “bad version” error when using mini_racer

Ruby

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Mar 5, 2020

How to avoid using the base CarrierWave uploader class on accident

If you forget to specify a custom uploader, CarrierWave will generate a class for you, which inherits from CarrierWave::Uploader::Base. This can cause issues, which you might not catch at first. Unintended Consequences The first issue (and the one that caused me the most grief) is that CarrierWave will upload to the uploads…

Carrierwave

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Carrierwave

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Mar 2, 2020

How to handle unhandledrejection errors using axios

Axios is a great library, but unhandled promise rejections can be a problem. How do we get rid of them? TL;DR Use this interceptor: axios.interceptors.response.use( response => response, error => { throw error } ) The Backstory I was looking at my error reports on Honeybadger today, and I came across this:

Axios

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Axios

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Feb 19, 2020

How to add a layout to the notes theme for Gatsby

Gatsby’s notes theme is a great way to get a “notes” section up and running quickly on a Gatsby site. It doesn’t come with a layout that includes a nice page header though, which is what we’ll be fixing over the next few minutes. Setup You will need Node.js installed to…

Gatsbyjs

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How to add a layout to the notes theme for Gatsby

Gatsbyjs

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Jun 22, 2019

Which came first, the `yield` or the `content_for`?

A little background In a Rails app I have been working on for a while, there is something like this in the layout: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <%= yield :react_styles if content_for?(:react_styles) %> </head> <body> <%= render 'layouts/header' %> <%= yield %> <%= render 'layouts/footer' %> </body> </html> Sometimes I notice that…

Web Development

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Which came first, the `yield` or the `content_for`?

Web Development

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The Startup

·Jun 5, 2019

My journey into the React Portal

I recently needed to render a flash message elsewhere in a React app. As far as I could tell, I had three choices: Use Redux and a connected component to render the flash message. Use Context, which is easier than ever to use thanks to the awesome useContext hook. Use…

React

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React

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