Great Storytelling Connects Employees to Their Work

I once spent a few delicious days studying Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), a collection of high-end, casual eateries started by the famed New York restauranteur, Danny Meyer. He had recently claimed the key to his success was creating a “culture of hospitality.” I set out to discover how.

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Building a Slack Bot Using Node.js

Slack is quickly becoming the new industry standard for teams to communicate with. In fact, it is so popular that when I typed slack into Google, as I expected, the first result was the definition of the word from the dictionary. This was followed immediately by Slack's website! 

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ES6 Promises: Patterns and Anti-Patterns

When I first got started with NodeJS a few years ago, I was mortified by what is now affectionately known as “callback hell”. Fortunately, here in 2017, NodeJS has adopted the latest and greatest JavaScript features, and since v4 has supported Promises.

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React + Dataviz

There is a natural connection between Data Visualization (dataviz) and SVG. SVG is a graphics format based on geometry and geometry is exactly what is needed to visually display data in compelling and accurate ways.

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Modern JavaScript Cheatsheet

This document is a cheatsheet for JavaScript you will frequently encounter in modern projects and most contemporary sample code.

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25 Tested Web Tools & Services for 2017

There are only four months left to go in 2017, and we’re developing a pretty clear picture of this year’s best web tools and services that provide excellent value.

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TypeScript at Lyft

In my early days as a JavaScript developer, when I learned about efforts to add types to JavaScript projects, the first question I asked myself was: why? Now, as a seasoned JavaScript veteran, I cannot imagine writing JavaScript without support of a type system.

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