I’ve come to realize that with complexity comes a large hit to the velocity at which one can develop software. Minimizing complexities when it comes to documentation and code discovery happens to be, in my experience, critical to a team being successful when programming anything with significant lines of code.

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2016 is now over and the new year has begun. It’s a great time to reflect on the past and also make predictions for the future. Technology, world events and software engineering tend to affect me the most these days. Why not take a fun guess at what 2017 has in store.

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Hexo has a simple method for displaying characters that need to be escaped; using the raw and endraw tags. It’s possible to use the backtick character provided by Markdown to display the special characters and Hexo provides the {% raw %} {% endraw %} option to capture raw information not to be interpreted by Hexo, but hexo cannot support all strings. Like in the case of mixing the backtick ` statements provided by Markdown. The trick to be able to display any backticks (`) is a combination of the raw and endraw as well as using multiple backticks.

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# Here is a codeblock using 3 backticks

# Render a backtick in Hexo
 ``{% raw %} `{% endraw %}``

 # Rendering {% raw %} and {% endraw %} in Hexo
 `{% raw %} {% {% endraw %}{% raw %}raw %} {% {% endraw %}{% raw %}endraw %}{% endraw %}`

An issue can occur when working within CMDER when Git complains that an index.lock file exists and cannot continue. This happens to be an annoying bug in Windows and CMDER. To immediately fix this issue in Windows, the task manager must be opened and all git-for-windows processes need to be ended. Then the index.lock file can be deleted manually. Or… the bug can be fixed instead!

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Refactoring is a process of revisiting code and attempting to make it ‘better’. The code is no longer useful due to its age, functionality, or preference and it has been decided to be replaced with an equal set of ‘better’ code. At no point does a developer learn the best way to refactor code. Refactoring is a skill learned through experience. JavaScript refactoring is notoriously hard due to scope and dynamic accessing of object properties. There is a clear pattern, however, that can be followed that promotes success and is pragmatic.

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