In this article, I’ll walk through a simple implementation I use to automatically post a link to a random blog article I’ve written to my Twitter feed. This implementation is written in JavaScript, but the concepts are easily translated to other languages. The breakdown: I have a blog …

If you have a need to merge multiple simple or complex JavaScript objects together into a single object, overriding or extending previous values, this helper function is handy. I often use multiple different objects to manage things like the configuration values for my applications. I might have one …

If you’ve ever had a long JavaScript sting that needs to maintain it’s string like format but is too long for your text editor or IDE’s window then this trick will help. Let’s say for example I need to create an OAuth URL for logging into my favorite provider. The values …