The tech-related writing of Nicholas C. Zakas

Apr 23, 2021

Two approaches to win an argument as a software engineer

If you’ve spent any time developing software professionally and then you are probably used to the spirited debates that take place between software engineers as well as between software engineers and management, design, and product…

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Nicholas C. Zakas in Human Who Codes

Oct 10, 2019

Scheduling Jekyll posts with Netlify and GitHub Actions

Last year, I wrote about how to schedule Jekyll posts using Netlify and AWS Lambda[¹]. I used that approach from the moment I wrote that blog post up until today. What changed? In the past year, GitHub has introduced GitHub…

Nicholas C. Zakas in Human Who Codes

Mar 12, 2019

Computer science in JavaScript: Circular Doubly-linked lists

In my previous post, I discussed what changes are necessary to turn a singly linked list into a doubly linked list. I recommend reading that post before this one (if you haven’t already). This post is about modifying a doubly…

Nicholas C. Zakas in Human Who Codes

Sep 29, 2020

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 1: Constructor

Early on in my career, I learned a lot by trying to recreate functionality I saw on websites. I found it helpful to investigate why something worked the way that it worked, and that lesson has stuck with me for decades…

Nicholas C. Zakas in Human Who Codes

Oct 21, 2020

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 4: Promise.resolve() and Promise.reject()

When you create a promise with the Promise constructor, you’re creating an unsettled promise, meaning the promise state is pending until either the resolve or reject function…

Nicholas C. Zakas in Human Who Codes

Jan 19, 2021

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 6: Promise.all() and Promise.allSettled()

In my last post, I walked you through the creation of the Promice.race() and Promise.any() methods, both of which work on multiple promises and return a single promise that…

Nicholas C. Zakas in Human Who Codes

Jul 27, 2020

How to safely use GitHub Actions in organizations

GitHub Actions [1] are programs designed to run inside of workflows [2], triggered by specific events inside a GitHub repository. To date, people use GitHub Actions to do things like run continuous integration (CI) tests, publish releases…

Nicholas C. Zakas in Human Who Codes

Feb 11, 2021

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 7: Unhandled rejection tracking

When promises were introduced in ECMAScript 2015, they had an interesting flaw: if a promise didn’t have a rejection handler and was later rejected, you would have no idea. The rejection…

Nicholas C. Zakas in Human Who Codes

Apr 23, 2019

Outputting Markdown from Jekyll using hooks

One of the things I most enjoy about Jekyll[1] is writing my blog posts in Markdown. I love not worrying about HTML and just letting Jekyll generate it for me when a post is published. Using Liquid tags directly in Markdown is also helpful, as I can…

Nicholas C. Zakas in Human Who Codes

Mar 9, 2021

Introducing Env: a better way to read environment variables in JavaScript

If you write server-side JavaScript, chances are you’ve need to read information from environment variables. It’s considered a best practice to share sensitive information, such as access tokens, inside…

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