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Ashton MacKenzie

Ashton MacKenzie

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Want to hear something about query languages that will make you actually appreciate callback functions and promises in programming languages?

October 11, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Thanks, I hate it

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March – A Retrospective

March 28, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

If you don’t schedule maintenance yourself, maintenance will schedule itself for you.

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The Guild of the Magi – Pre Alpha

January 20, 2023April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

My final project for Flatiron School, where we learn about project management, development hell, and browser games.

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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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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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Discogs Utility

September 16, 2022April 21, 2025 A MacKenzie

Project at Flatiron School to demonstrate competency with JavaScript fundamentals

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