very opinionated thoughts on the web, by tiff

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Volta for Node Version Management

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I was working on a project I found on GitHub and it suggested using Volta instead of nvm for your node version management.

I was skeptical at first but since I started using it, I don't think I'll use nvm again.

Check out the Volta docs.

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Mustache Fix for my static site generator

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