I have updated /uses with some minor changes:
I’ve written a bit about my usage of Webstorm in the past, but I haven’t lately. There’s good reasoning behind it, I’ve switched to Visual Studio Code! I’ve really been enjoying using it, especially since I started working in Typescript. It seems like more and more people are enjoying it too! With that expanded audience, comes community written extensions for VS Code. These are my current favorite ones:
Do you have an extension that you love that you think I will too? Reach out to me on twitter and let me know! @AdamWeeks
I had previously blogged about how I use Mission Control Spaces in my workflow. Since my role at work has changed quite a bit (more web/less iOS) my layouts have changed a bit. It has been almost a year since I started using a ‘role based space’ setup and I’m still happy with the change.
Here’s my current setup:
As you can see, I’ve moved my iOS development space to the end since it so rarely gets used these days (sadface.gif) but I keep my web development space closer to the bottom of the stack. In the next few weeks, space 4 and 5 will probably get merged to keep things a bit more simple.
This weekend I decided to try to make an item I’d seen across instagram and pinterest, Bourbon Bacon Brittle. Now, I wouldn’t say I was a brittle expert, but I’ve probably made more batches of brittle for gifts than I’ve made any other food product (besides boxed mac and cheese!). I’d never put anything besides different kinds of nuts in the brittle though, so I wanted to give it a shot.
Let’s start with what I did and then I’ll tell you what I’m going to do next time.
Stage 1: Maple Bourbon Glaze
Ingredients:
Steps:
Stage 2: BACON!
Ingredients:
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Final Stage (3): Brittle!
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For Next Time:
Like I said above, I won’t get the thick cut bacon next time. It took longer to cook and the pieces were a bit chewy in the brittle. It was still delicious but I think having it be crunchy will make it even better.
I also put the bacon in the brittle with the almonds. I believe this basically wiped out a lot of my glaze that was on the bacon. Next time, I’ll wait until the very end (after the vanilla, butter and baking soda addition) so that the bacon retains as much glaze as possible.
While trying to wrangle custom directives in AngularJS, I’ve found the restrict property a bit tough to understand even after reading the guide:
The
restrictoption is typically set to:
'A'– only matches attribute name'E'– only matches element name'C'– only matches class nameThese restrictions can all be combined as needed:
'AEC'– matches either attribute or element or class name
Here’s a real world example of each one in use. For these examples, we’ll define our directive as:
directive('exampleDirective', function(){
return {
restrict: 'A',
template: 'This is an example directive',
}
});
Also notice that even though our directive is named ‘exampleDirective’, Angular converts it to ‘example-directive’ when compiling the html.
Adam Weeks 