ChallahScript

Hazel Bachrach's technical blog. Should include some dumb and not-so-dumb stuff about software engineering.
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What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
11 Nov 2024 | original ↗

I’ve been working professionally for the better part of a decade on web apps and, in that time, I’ve had to learn how to use a lot of different systems and tools. During that education, I found that the official documentation typically proved to be the most helpful.

JavaScript Improvements
7 Oct 2020 | original ↗

In this article I go over three things that, in my mind, would make JavaScript better. None are new ideas. This post is an expansion of a tweet I had when I saw someone asking about improvements for JS. (though probably are impossible for various reasons). I’m going to be primarily speaking about browsers and the web, though much of this might...

A Hierarchy of Documentation
24 Apr 2020 | original ↗

“Where should this information live?” is a common question I encounter daily as a software engineer. I (alone or in consultation with others) will make a decision and that information needs to persist…somewhere. The goal of course is to prevent some future engineer (often myself) from encountering some code and asking “why?” or, even worse,...

A Brief Tour of Tools
1 Apr 2018 | original ↗

Core philosophy

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