The World Until Yesterday
What can we learn from traditional societies?
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How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
Pure Functions in JavaScript
Pure functions are essential to understanding functional programming and writing clean code. But what does it mean for a function to be pure?
Understanding the lifecycle of Gatsby
Gatsby is a static site generator built with React at its core that allows you to build modern websites and applications that come with…
Upheaval
Jared Diamond reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes, a coping mechanism more commonly…
Sort Object by property
Sort Object by property using JavaScript.
When Breath Becomes Air
Dr. Paul Kalanithi describes his transformation from a medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, and finally…
Format text with JavaScript
Remove space characters from a string with JavaScript.
The Spy and the Traitor
Ben MacIntyre's thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent.
Range
David Epstein makes an interesting argument for how to succeed in any field by developing broad interests and skills, instead of following…
Wavy Underline
Add a wavy underline to your text with CSS.
Border Gradient
Wrap your text with an animated border.
Animated Gradient
Animate your gradient color with CSS.
Text Gradient
Add gradient color to your text with CSS.
How to Get the Current Page URL in Gatsby
Gatsby uses Reach Router under the hood to handle routing. If you want to provide anywhere in your app, you need to use the React Router’s…
Smooth Scrolling in Gatsby
The following guide describes how to implement smooth scrolling in Gatsby using the smooth-scroll package. Instructions add the package to…
Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson shows how Leonardo’s “genius” was built on skills that anyone can develop, such as curiosity, careful observation and a…
Check if there is a missing item in an object
Given an object, we want to check if there is any missing item in it using JavaScript.
Remove a property from an object
Remove a property from an object using the ES6 rest operator.
Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton, the merchant king of the late 20th century, shares his thoughts and decision-making process that took him from opening a small…
Video Games
My favorite video games of all-time.
Uses
My favorite tools and software.
Why Nations Fail
In this book, Acemoglu and Robinson answer the question, Why are some nations rich and others poor? The authors show that it is man-made…
Using Google Fonts in Gatsby
Google Fonts is a great resource for adding beautiful fonts to your website. Adding fonts to a Gatsby project is as easy as installing the…
Reclaiming Conversation
Sherry Turkle investigates the problems that arise in our society when we sacrifice conversation for simple connection, and why reclaiming…
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly’s optimistic and hopeful guide through the twelve technological realities that will shape the next thirty years and transform…
But What If We're Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman visualizes our contemporary world as it will appear to those who will perceive it as the distant past. Favorite quotes from…
How Google Works
Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg helped grow Google from a young start-up to a global icon, while relearning everything they knew about…
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert’s book urgently forces us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human as we go through the most…
How to add custom JavaScript to a Gatsby site
While working on a side project recently, I found myself in the need to add some custom JavaScript to a Gatsby site. Gatsby doesn’t use an…