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2020-08-24

• 20:24 UTC (new) (history) 2020-08-24 Sorting object keys with Lodash . . . . mbork – I have been extremely busy recently, so I have only a short tip today. Imagine having a JavaScript object like this: { a: 1, b: 3, c: 2, } and needing to have an (almost) identical object, but sorted by increasing values. (Yes, I know that theoretically the order of object properties does not matter and should not be relied upon, but come on.)

2020-08-17

• 19:39 UTC (new) (history) 2020-08-17 A simple bash one-liner to check a bunch of files for the terminating newline . . . . mbork – Some time ago I had a bunch of csv files in a directory, and some of them had terminating newlines. I wanted to check if every one of them was newline-terminated. After a while of thinking, I came up with this Bash one-liner:

2020-08-10

• 20:53 UTC (new) (history) 2020-08-10 Custom git-log format and a poor man's changelog revisited . . . . mbork – A few months ago I wrote about a “poor man’s changelog” in Git. This post is a short follow-up with another tip on how to make this “changelog” more useful.

2020-08-03

• 14:55 UTC (new) (history) 2020-08-03 Look up a global variable in the database in Node.js . . . . mbork – Today I encountered an interesting problem. Assume that you want a global constant in your Node.js backend, but its actual value is to be taken from a database. This means that fetching the constant should be done asynchronously. Unless you use Node.js 14.3.0 or newer (which as the time of me writing this is not yet ubiquitous), you cannot await your database request at the top level

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