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Alex MacArthur

Developer for Dave Ramsey, most exceptional Enneagram #3.

Location Nashville, TN Joined Joined on  Personal website https://macarthur.me github website twitter website

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Developer at Ramsey Solutions

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When a JavaScript WeakMap() Actually Came in Handy
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When a JavaScript WeakMap() Actually Came in Handy

#javascript #ecmascript #weakmap #performance
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When DOM Updates Appear to Be Asynchronous
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When DOM Updates Appear to Be Asynchronous

#javascript #animation #performance
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Why I Like Tailwind CSS
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Why I Like Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #css #styling #frameworks
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Don't Feel Bad About Using XMLHttpRequest
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Don't Feel Bad About Using XMLHttpRequest

#ajax #fetch #xmlhttprequest #javascript
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When It Makes Sense to Use a Utility Function Instead of a Polyfill
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When It Makes Sense to Use a Utility Function Instead of a Polyfill

#performance #polyfill #javascript
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Clean Up Your Redux Store Listeners When Component State Updates
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Clean Up Your Redux Store Listeners When Component State Updates

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Cleaning Up Redux Store Listeners When Component State Updates
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Cleaning Up Redux Store Listeners When Component State Updates

#react #redux #statemanagement #lifecycle
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Streamlining Conditional Statements with Logical Operators
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Streamlining Conditional Statements with Logical Operators

#javascript #logic #programming #syntax
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A Plot Proposal for Frozen III
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A Plot Proposal for Frozen III

#entertainment #browsers #chrome #firefox
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If the Democratic Presidential Candidates Were JavaScript Packages
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If the Democratic Presidential Candidates Were JavaScript Packages

#javascript #politics
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For the Sake of Your Event Listeners, Use Web Workers
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For the Sake of Your Event Listeners, Use Web Workers

#javascript #performance #webworkers
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Blog for Your Own Sake
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Blog for Your Own Sake

#blogging #writing
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Building a Shell Function to Copy the Latest Git Commit SHA
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Building a Shell Function to Copy the Latest Git Commit SHA

#zsh #bash #shell
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Should We All Start Implementing Differential Serving?
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Should We All Start Implementing Differential Serving?

#performance #javascript #frontend
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Deploying Code with a Git Hook on a DigitalOcean Droplet
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Deploying Code with a Git Hook on a DigitalOcean Droplet

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A Simpler Unit Testing Setup for WordPress
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A Simpler Unit Testing Setup for WordPress

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Creating a .map() Method for Objects, Strings, Sets, and Maps
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Creating a .map() Method for Objects, Strings, Sets, and Maps

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Remember to Probably Target an Empty Object with Object.assign()
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Remember to Probably Target an Empty Object with Object.assign()

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Formatting My PHP More Efficiently with a Bash Function
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Formatting My PHP More Efficiently with a Bash Function

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Quickly Spin Up MySQL w/ Docker Compose
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Quickly Spin Up MySQL w/ Docker Compose

#mysql #docker
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Writing a Regular Expression to Target Images Without a Class
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Writing a Regular Expression to Target Images Without a Class

#regex #php
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Best-ish Practices for Dynamically Prefetching & Prerendering Pages with JavaScript
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Best-ish Practices for Dynamically Prefetching & Prerendering Pages with JavaScript

#performance #javascript
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Using the 'posts_where' Filter with WP_Query in WordPress
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Using the 'posts_where' Filter with WP_Query in WordPress

#wordpress
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Preloading JavaScript Assets in WordPress
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Preloading JavaScript Assets in WordPress

#javascript #performance #wordpress
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Let's Stop Making it Cool to Hate jQuery
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Let's Stop Making it Cool to Hate jQuery

#jquery #javascript
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Build Your Own Simple Lazy Loading Functionality in WordPress
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Build Your Own Simple Lazy Loading Functionality in WordPress

#wordpress #performance #javascript
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Building a Lambda Function with Netlify
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Building a Lambda Function with Netlify

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