Jolene Langlinais

Jan 12, 2021

Agile Improv

The Principles of Improv One of the things I miss most in quarantine is going to see live improv comedy. As often as I could, I used to go see shows at New York City’s Upright Citizen’s Brigade theater and lose my mind laughing at the incredibly talented improvisers there. I even took a…

Agile Methodology

5 min read

Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Dec 29, 2020

JavaScript Utility Libraries

Comparison of JS, Ramda, and Lodash With ECMAScript 2020 available, external libraries are not necessary for functional programming (FP) — specifically currying and composition. The two main libraries for this kind of work have been Ramda and Lodash FP. UnderscoreJS is another, but Lodash is generally thought of as an improvement on this library. Lodash is…

Java Script

4 min read

Feb 18, 2020

Year One: Lessons Learned

Setting Halfway through university, I was forced to drop out due to lack of funds. I then spent ten years cycling through different careers (or, perhaps more accurately, attempts at careers). Throughout that time, I worked multiple jobs that did not truly interest me, none of which were in tech. Moreover…

Software Development

9 min read

Published in Better Programming

·Aug 28, 2019

Modern Javascript Techniques

Clean and scalable syntax in pursuit of purity — As a beautifully complex and adaptive language, JavaScript has many advantages that only continue to grow every year. It is no wonder that the language and community are so popular given that it had a large hand in bringing user-interface interactivity and responsive web design to the internet. While sometimes…

Java Script

13 min read

Published in Better Programming

·Jun 19, 2019

Git Workflow Etiquette

Repository organization for clean codebases — Version control with Git provides for powerful collaboration, whether it be a tight-knit tech team or a distributed network in an open-source format. Still, proper care must be taken. Git is used widely within the software development field and can manage a constantly evolving codebase. Most of its usefulness comes…

Git

12 min read

Published in The Startup

·May 28, 2019

Asynchronous with Redux Sagas

Sophisticated Side Effect Flow Management and Testing — Building an app with React can get a bit confusing when data is being shared among components and different states lead to too much complexity and difficulty. Redux is a lightweight state management tool which can be used with any JavaScript framework or library to maintain a consistent and predictable…

Redux Saga

8 min read

Nov 5, 2018

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (and Blockchain) for Voting Anonymously

In the United States, voters are registered online or by mail through the Department of Motor Vehicles, using government-issued documents such as a driver’s license. On election day, voters go to the poling station geographically nearest to their residence, where their identities are verified by poll workers (through means such…

Politics

3 min read

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (and Blockchain) for Voting Anonymously