Jeremy LenzWhen Active Record is too slowI’ve been doing quite a bit of work lately on the Rails API for BusRate, my personal project around measuring performance of NYC buses…Feb 20, 2019Feb 20, 2019
Jeremy LenzUsing JavaScript Sets in a Redux StoreIn writing my latest side project, which has a front-end written in React & Redux, I made a cute little CSS loader/spinner so that my…Nov 28, 20183Nov 28, 20183
Jeremy LenzWhy I love Ruby: An exampleI was having fun doing an easy HackerRank challenge this morning. (The gist of the problem is, given an array like [4, 4, 3, 1, 2], return…Aug 21, 20181Aug 21, 20181
Jeremy LenzIf you’re using Atom with Rubocop and you have git pre-commit hooks that run it before it lets you…… Install this Atom package here. It fixed it for me!Jun 8, 2018Jun 8, 2018
Jeremy LenzMaking an OAuth 1.0 signature for TwitterMerry Christmas! Your Christmas present is a blog post on how to make an OAuth 1.0 signature for sending requests to Twitter’s API.Dec 24, 20172Dec 24, 20172
Jeremy LenzImplementing Sign in with Twitter from scratchWhen I made my final project for Flatiron School, Bikeways, having Sign in with Twitter available was very important to me because the…Oct 29, 2017Oct 29, 2017
Jeremy LenzReact Router basics: What I wish they’d told meOkay, so here’s my problem with React Router:Oct 22, 20172Oct 22, 20172
Jeremy Lenz5 Things I Learned from Doing Group Programming ProjectsWhen reading articles on the Internet, have you noticed that usually you can skip the first two paragraphs or so and you’ll be just fine…Aug 30, 2017Aug 30, 2017
Jeremy LenzCross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS): My JourneySo I was playing around recently with the MTA Bus API. It’s pretty cool. You can get a list of all the bus lines, bus stops, etc.. and even…Aug 18, 20171Aug 18, 20171
Jeremy LenzPair programming: A few observations.As I write this, we’re at the midpoint of our time at Flatiron School. Seven and a half weeks complete, seven and a half weeks to go. Hard…Jul 28, 2017Jul 28, 2017