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The "best" git log command

May 5, 2025 · 1 min read · git log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit It gives you a graph, commit hash (red), decorations like branch names (yellow), commit subject / message (white), relativ...

How to solve the Leetcode 1657. Determine if Two Strings Are Close problem in JavaScript

Dec 2, 2022 · 6 min read · The Problem This problem is described: Two strings are considered close if you can attain one from the other using the following operations: Operation 1: Swap any two existing characters. For example, abcde -> aecdb Operation 2: Transform every ...

How to add Google maps and markers to a React site

Nov 12, 2022 · 2 min read · To get started with Google maps, don't use the official Google documentation and NPM package. It's more difficult to use and the documentation is not great. The 3rd party google map react NPM package has 281,893 weekly downloads, whereas the NPM pack...

How to deploy a Ruby Sinatra Active Record app on Heroku

Oct 12, 2022 · 4 min read · This post will walk through deploying a full stack app with a React front end and a Sinatra, ActiveRecord, and Ruby back end on Heroku. PostgreSQL Heroku does not work with SQLite, so your app uses SQLite, you have to switch to using PostgreSQL in pr...

How to make a star rating display in React that's better than the one on yelp.com

Oct 10, 2022 · 6 min read · This post will discuss how to create a star rating display in React, and a star rating picker with color-changing hover effects similar to Yelp.com's version. Yelp's star rating display rounds to the half star: Yelp has over 5 million claimed busin...