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Josh Branchaud

I'm a developer and consultant focused primarily on the web, specializing in React, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL. Newsletter: https://crafty-builder-6996.ck.page/e169c61186

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Independent Software Dev @ VisualMo.de

Reduce a JSON Object to just Entries of a Specific Type with jq

Reduce a JSON Object to just Entries of a Specific Type with jq

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Breaking Down a Complex Mapped Type

Breaking Down a Complex Mapped Type

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Speeding Up An Expensive PostgreSQL Query: B-Tree vs. BRIN

Speeding Up An Expensive PostgreSQL Query: B-Tree vs. BRIN

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Strong Confirmation Modal with XState

Strong Confirmation Modal with XState

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1/7 GUI Tasks with React and XState: Counter

1/7 GUI Tasks with React and XState: Counter

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Test ActionMailer `deliver_later` in RSpec Controller Tests

Test ActionMailer `deliver_later` in RSpec Controller Tests

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Give your Postgres Queries More Memory to Work With

Give your Postgres Queries More Memory to Work With

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Tackle that Big Task

Tackle that Big Task

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There is no triple-quote multi-line string syntax in Ruby

There is no triple-quote multi-line string syntax in Ruby

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Upgrade a Rails app from the Heroku-16 to the Heroku-18 Stack

Upgrade a Rails app from the Heroku-16 to the Heroku-18 Stack

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Beware The Missing Foreign Key Index: A Postgres Performance Gotcha

Beware The Missing Foreign Key Index: A Postgres Performance Gotcha

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Use an XState Machine with React

Use an XState Machine with React

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My Annotated Vim CoC Config

My Annotated Vim CoC Config

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Build a Custom RSpec Matcher for Comparing DateTimes

Build a Custom RSpec Matcher for Comparing DateTimes

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4 Months in to a 3 Month Experiment

4 Months in to a 3 Month Experiment

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Reinstall PostgreSQL with OpenSSL using asdf

Reinstall PostgreSQL with OpenSSL using asdf

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Add Tailwind CSS to a Rails app

Add Tailwind CSS to a Rails app

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A Few Methods for Returning Default Values when Creating ActiveRecord Objects

A Few Methods for Returning Default Values when Creating ActiveRecord Objects

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The Modes of tmux

The Modes of tmux

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Test Timing-Based JS Functions with Jest

Test Timing-Based JS Functions with Jest

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Reapply the Previous Visual Selection in Vim

Reapply the Previous Visual Selection in Vim

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Interactively Browse Large Lists of Data with FZF

Interactively Browse Large Lists of Data with FZF

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Referencing the global namespace with Ruby's Scope Resolution Operator

Referencing the global namespace with Ruby's Scope Resolution Operator

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Introducing Vim Un-Alphabet

Introducing Vim Un-Alphabet

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Living Notes on Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Living Notes on Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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"30 Days of X" Strategies

"30 Days of X" Strategies

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Next-Gen Blogging

Next-Gen Blogging

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Fullstory Study Hall

Fullstory Study Hall

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Save The Title For Last

Save The Title For Last

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Code Decay

Code Decay

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Practicing Well

Practicing Well

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Culture of Collaboration

Culture of Collaboration

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Deliberate Note-Taking

Deliberate Note-Taking

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Crafting Commits

Crafting Commits

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Fight Focus with Atomic Work

Fight Focus with Atomic Work

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Software Side-Quests

Software Side-Quests

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Atomic Commits

Atomic Commits

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Slower Debugging

Slower Debugging

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Good Commit Messages

Good Commit Messages

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Conversation Mitigators

Conversation Mitigators

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Cleanup Commits

Cleanup Commits

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Whiteboards as a Shared Resource

Whiteboards as a Shared Resource

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Adjust the Audience Knob

Adjust the Audience Knob

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Stepping back from the developer mindset

Stepping back from the developer mindset

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Give pair programming another chance

Give pair programming another chance

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Don't Leave Your Empty States Empty

Don't Leave Your Empty States Empty

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New features are a liability

New features are a liability

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Writing without Publishing

Writing without Publishing

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A Little Peppermint

A Little Peppermint

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How I learned to Learn in Public

How I learned to Learn in Public

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Into the Flywheel

Into the Flywheel

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A Time without a Zone

A Time without a Zone

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The Digital Garden

The Digital Garden

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Write More, Write Small

Write More, Write Small

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A Little Bit of JavaScript: classnames

A Little Bit of JavaScript: classnames

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