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Aaron Crowder

Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.

Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web. I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together). I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare time.

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JavaScript: Array's with named Properties

Adding named properties to arrays in JavaScript can be handy in a few different cases. For instance: You need a nice formatted title / description for a data set. Rather than having multiple objects you can use named properties and get away with only using one. You want to add some functions to an array for whatever reason Lots of other reasons that I can't think of right now! Basically, this just buys you a nice way to encapsulate all the data you might need, without having to use an objec...

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Powershell Markdown Preview

I'm at Angle Brackets. I've decided that I wanted to try taking all my notes in vim. I LOVE using vim. It's a really awesome, powerful, and extendable command-line editor. I enjoy that it's really distraction free. Being distracted is something that I struggle with so I really look for ways to stay focused. I write in Markdown as well. It's a great way to get a simple, clean, well formatted plain text document that can be processed and produce HTML. One of the biggest things I look for in a M...

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