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Ashton MacKenzie

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Layer 1 – Media

December 28, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

A quick reference to the very foundation layer – turning the lights on.

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Email Forwarding and DNS

December 12, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

It’s always DNS, even when you don’t think DNS is part of this configuration In November, I rediscovered that my domain registrar and hosting provider

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Handling Requests That Update Multiple Models in Ruby on Rails

December 6, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

“It’s called ‘Business Logic’ “ It starts simply enough. You have a many to many relationship, or even a one to many or one to

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the question is not "when does this effect run", the question is "with which state does this effect synchronize with" - Ryan Florence, 2019, Twitter
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If You Want Your State To Have Effects, You Need To Use useEffect

November 18, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Maybe they’re right, am I out of touch? No, it is the hooks who are wrong.

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DNS

November 12, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

DNS is very important for development because it allows us to write calls to resources outside of a program in a resilient way.

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Introduction to Networks for Software Engineers

November 12, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

You might have experience in programming but not in the underlying technologies that support network methods… and you might be too afraid to ask.

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Subshells

November 8, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Learning to troubleshoot code is already coming back and healing my self-taught habits.

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Notes on Mythical Beasts for Junior Developers: “Shell Environment Script”

November 2, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

In which you adopt a mythical beast of your own, and start to learn to spin them from the threads of your own shell scripts.

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Things I’ve Learned Converting my First React Methods to Typescript (Part 0)

October 24, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

I haven’t even done much TypeScript yet. Apparently it’s hard work to migrate a whole legacy codebase from one framework to another!

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Why React is Like Knitting

October 4, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Why doing things the React way is analogous to advanced knitting construction techniques.

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