A fun detour is also progress in codingOnce after working really hard for past 2-3 weeks learning and head-banging on a Rails API, I decided I needed to switch up and do something fun instead. Sometimes taking detours make all the difference, even though it sounds unproductive and not add...Nov 2, 2021 · 2 min readjasonleow.hashnode.dev
Lazy debugging gone longThat’s what I learned from my first 4-day hitting-head-against-wall experience of trying to debug code. Debugged for 4 days because I was lazy I wanted to do a POST request to my Rails API using a Vue app. Both are super basic setups, just for learn...Nov 1, 2021 · 2 min readjasonleow.hashnode.dev
How I ended up making a JAMstack app on Rails & Vue"I WON!" I felt like a lottery winner when I finally made an API-first app. One that works not just in local but in production, out in the real world. It’s a todo list app, with Ruby on Rails REST API as backend, and a Vue.js app as frontend to fetch...Oct 31, 2021 · 3 min readjasonleow.hashnode.dev
Side projects I wouldn't build in 2021Learning coding by doing is one of the better ways to pick up coding. Code newbies are often advised to choose a side project and then use it as a vehicle to learn your programming language or framework of choice. Even experienced devs have side proj...3VJOct 30, 2021 · 2 min readjasonleow.hashnode.dev
Step 1, reboot the serverSome days, just rubberducking alone doesn't help. Today I had to seek help for a bug again again, but this time writing out the question out loud (aka rubberducking) didn’t work. A friend helped me out in the end, and all it took was that dreaded que...1JOct 29, 2021 · 2 min readjasonleow.hashnode.dev