Emily DrevetsGet that POST Request Working by Enabling CORS on an Express Backend to Chat w/Ur React FrontendAnd now…. for the story.Aug 5, 20191Aug 5, 20191
Emily DrevetsExploring Unexpected Behavior With JavaScript Date Objects“As represented in seconds since the Epoch, each and every day shall be accounted for by exactly 86400 seconds.” — thus spoketh the Holy…Mar 22, 2019Mar 22, 2019
Emily DrevetsYou Can’t Prompt a File Download With the Content Disposition Header Using Axios (XHR). Sorry.If you’re reading this article, I’m really sorry. I can feel your desperation. You know, you BELIEVE, that using the content disposition…Mar 14, 201914Mar 14, 201914
Emily DrevetsHow to Display HTML Folium Maps Using Jinja2 Templating With FlaskYou have a beautiful, gorgeous Folium map that you’ve generated displaying something really awesome. It’s so great, you want the whole…Nov 14, 2018Nov 14, 2018
Emily DrevetsMaking lines of code disap…(whisper this: “refactoring….”)What’s the best part about writing code? Making cool stuff? Solving hard problems? Making beginners feel bad? Being a rockstar!? WRONG.Oct 16, 2018Oct 16, 2018
Emily DrevetsMapping Divvy Data Using PythonThe best part of any project is naming it. My project: Hot Bikes. The goal: make a heat map of where people are biking in Chicago, using…Sep 20, 20181Sep 20, 20181
Emily DrevetsWhy I Decided to Pursue Software Engineering Instead of ClowningIn the summer of 2014, I sent a good-bye email to my colleagues at a tech company in SF, telling them that I was quitting to go to clown…Aug 7, 20181Aug 7, 20181
Emily DrevetsA Few Things My Mom Never Told Me About PromisesNot the kind you make to Santa Claus to be a good girl. This kind:Jun 25, 2018Jun 25, 2018
Emily DrevetsOne Million Alligators Descend on Washington to Protest Trump Promise to Drain the SwampsWASHINGTON — Wearing crocheted pea-green swamp hats and carrying snarky signs that said things like, “Get your tiny hands off my swamp,”…Jan 30, 2017Jan 30, 2017
Emily DrevetsCoffee, Extra HotIn college, I thought I had umbrellas all figured out, but I actually knew nothing. At least, that’s what the oldest woman in the world…Jun 28, 20161Jun 28, 20161
