Extracurricular Activities Home Automation in 2024: What’s New? After avoiding it for a decade or so, I’m finally dipping my toes into home automation. So, what's changed, and why now?
JavaScript Prune Your Monorepo’s Docker Build My software team recently applied the prune command and other techniques to great effect, reducing the Docker image size by half.
Developer Tools An Introduction to BalenaOS and BalenaCloud Here are a few things I learned from my first experience with an embedded-ish software platform: BalenaCloud and BalenaOS.
TypeScript Build a Lightweight Code Generator with TypeScript and JSON Imports On a recent project, my team created a lightweight code generator, with reusable techniques I want to share. Read on for the why and the how.
TypeScript Typescript Switches on Multiple Inputs I recently found myself wanting a two-dimensional switch statement in TypeScript. Here's one way to write one!
TypeScript Add CLI Scripts to Your TypeScript/Node Project with TSX (No, the Other TSX) One-off CLI scripts that share code with the application are valuable. Here's my favorite way to run them in a Node.js TypeScript project.
Developer Tools Integrating Contentful with a Server-Rendered Next.js App? Watch Out for Cycles! It can be hazardous to combine Contentful with server-side rendering (SSR). My first tip: watch out for cycles!
Developer Tools In the Market for a GraphQL server? Try GraphQL Yoga My team recently stood up a GraphQL API endpoint with a server called Yoga, and I was pleased with how easy it was to get going.
Developer Tools Why I Switched from Skitch to Shottr I have been using Skitch for marking up screenshots, but recently at the suggestion of a co-worker, I switched to a new tool: Shottr.
Exploratory Testing 2 Ways to Catch Software Deployment Problems Early Have you ever introduced a bug that lurked undetected until deployment? I'll describe a couple of these bugs and early-warning systems to catch them.
Developer Tools Stopwatch.sh: A Simple Tool to Measure Elapsed Time Many tools will measure how long it takes for a computer to do something. Stopwatch.sh is one I keep up my sleeve for when none of those other tools fit.
React / Redux Building a Terminal Wordle Game with React Ink I recently decided to write my own Terminal Wordle and used Ink, a library that lets you build Terminal UI apps using the same patterns as web apps.
