Brillskills Blog
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Game of Thrones: The Rains of Castamere
Warning! Here be spoilers for the Game of Thrones episode “The Rains of Castamere”, and also for the books. There is an existential bleakness and cynicism at the heart of George Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire books that often makes them hard to take. As a reader, you can fall in love with them, […]
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Good and Bad Podcasts, Nuance, and Rejecting Prescriptivism
I’m not a fan of podcasts, on the whole, particularly the ones that I’ve listened to that focus on coding and developer culture. For a long time, I couldn’t put my finger on what it was that put me off them, and I just figured podcasts weren’t for me. However, in the past year, I’ve […]
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Simulating Latency for AngularJS $http Calls with Response Interceptors
When writing an AngularJS application that communicates with back-end services via XHR calls, you need to cater for the latency that will occur when users are accessing the application for real over slow connections. This usually means showing things such as loading indicators when long running requests are in progress. However, when in development, the […]
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