A few months back I was searching for a way to audit stale branches and ran across a really useful script on Stack Overflow. The script…
For the uninitiated, "Standup" is a metaphoric title given to a daily team meeting where all attendees stand. The intent of this is to…
I've been using Obsidian to manage my notes. It's an editor that allows you to write all your notes in Markdown format. I've been using two…
A tale that relays my experiences getting Capybara system tests to run successfully in a dev-container on an Apple silicon based computer.
The Journey Begins At the end of last year my main work machine was upgraded to a MacBook Pro with an M1 Max processor. I quickly got to…
An exploration of how to utilize regular expressions to change the design of your website when using TailwindCSS.
Are you using TailwindCSS in you project? ... of course you are it's all the rage lately, and everyone’s using it. Need to change all the…
We decode a mystery involving comma operators, property accessors, and a single missing character.
What The Javascript? Consider for a moment, the problematic code sample below that unexpectedly evaluates to : Exhibit A It's using or as…
A developer's experience using Windows for Node and Ruby on Rails development.
When I first heard about Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), I got excited. I hadn't used Windows for development in years. Configuring Node…
The fourth, and final entry of the JSON API tutorial series. In this phase we'll be creating an Ember app that will connect to the JSON API server.
Building an Ember App that connects to a JSON API server ○ Phase 1: Setting up your projects ○ Phase 2: Designing your API with Swagger and…
The second entry of the JSON API tutorial series. In this phase we will be implementing our JSON API server with Express.
UPDATED MAR 2020: Updated code samples to eliminate deprecation warnings for current version of Mongoose, fixed a test name, and adjusted…
The second entry of the JSON API tutorial series. In this phase we'll be designing our API and using Swagger
UPDATED MAR 2020: Updated indentation in YAML code. Designing your API with Swagger and JSON API Phase 1: Setting up your projects Phase…
The first entry of the JSON API tutorial series. In this phase we'll be setting up our api and client projects.
UPDATED MAR 2020: Updated versions of assumed software and the nvm install command, and moved some Swagger setup steps forward from part…
We show how to hit the ground running with webpack and start your development with a basic configuration.
With Webpack 2.x out of the release client phase, we're here with a quick start guide to get your development project running. This guide…
We show how to optimize your ci and webpack builds with a few plugins and adjusting your configuration.
Recently, I was running into issues where the builds for a Node project were becoming painfully slow. Local development builds would take…