Writing

2023

• Creating SQL insert statements programmatically from CSV with Python

  November 27 - 5 minute read

• How to sort by two keys in an array of objects in JavaScript

  November 13 - 2 minute read

• Pragmatic Programmer Code Navigation Challenges in VS Code

  October 23 - 9 minute read

• Shoshin 3: But what *is* JSON?

  September 25 - 3 minute read

• Learning Java with Co-Pilot

  September 1 - 6 minute read

• Five Things VSCode Part 3

  July 30 - 2 minute read

• Mocking named exports in Jest unit tests

  July 20 - 1 minute read

• Initial thoughts on Github Co-Pilot

  July 2 - 10 minute read

• Setting up Cypress tests in multiple directories

  May 20 - 2 minute read

• Setting up a new macOS machine for development

  April 13 - 3 minute read

• How to write Python on an iPad

  January 28 - 6 minute read

• How to setup the VSCode python unit test extension in subsystem linux

  January 18 - 2 minute read

2022

• How to get a segmentation violation in Go

  November 14 - 2 minute read

• How to use interfaces to create mocks in Golang unit tests

  September 27 - 6 minute read

• A bobblehead and a dev walk into a unit testing bar.

  June 8 - 4 minute read

• Go unit testing in VSCode

  May 24 - 3 minute read

• Shoshin 3: Sometimes walking backwards is better than forwards

  April 12 - 1 minute read

• Generating a Go trace and streaming it out of a pod

  March 9 - 2 minute read

2021

• On Learning

  December 31 - 24 minute read

• Conditional Call Stack Based Logging in Go

  November 30 - 1 minute read

• Five Things VSCode Part 2

  November 3 - 3 minute read

• How to see hidden files and folders in the MacOS popup Finder

  October 21 - 1 minute read

• The only constant is change

  September 21 - less than 1 minute read

• Rendering React components directly in Django HTML templates.

  August 12 - 11 minute read

• Docstring Driven Development: For when TDD struggles under the weight of shifting design.

  July 24 - 11 minute read

• Variable Ownership and Borrowing in Rust

  June 26 - 3 minute read

• Variable shadowing and scoping in Rust

  May 26 - 3 minute read

• Python and its named reference system

  May 2 - 4 minute read

• Custom snippets in VS Code

  March 10 - 1 minute read

• Aliasing JavaScript paths in Webpack, Eslint, Jest, and VSCode

  February 24 - 6 minute read

• Shoshin 2: Jest tests can be ran asynchronous

  January 18 - 3 minute read

2020

• Setting up different Webpack configs for prod and dev

  December 12 - 4 minute read

• Dividing a Git branch after opening a PR

  November 9 - 2 minute read

• The Scorched Earth Guide to Adding Vue 2 to Django

  September 26 - 11 minute read

• The Scorched Earth Guide to Adding React 16 to Django

  September 4 - 24 minute read

• Adding a key:value pair to a list of Javascript objects

  August 28 - 1 minute read

• Shoshin 1: body.json() is async

  August 7 - 3 minute read

• Changing VSCode's highlighting behavior

  July 17 - 1 minute read

• React Basics: State vs Props

  July 10 - 8 minute read

• Five things I use a lot in Visual Studio Code Part 1

  June 26 - 8 minute read

• Custom Sliding Checkboxes

  June 12 - 5 minute read

• Me vs Docker Round 2: Optimizing Dockerfiles

  June 5 - 7 minute read

• Me vs Docker Round 1: Nothing is as easy as it looks.

  May 29 - 13 minute read

• Finding a changed string in Git history

  May 20 - 2 minute read

• Misadventures in Jquery Typeahead

  May 13 - 4 minute read

• Quickly switching from Powershell to Bash using WSL

  May 6 - 2 minute read