Three Tips for Running Windows from macOS with VMware Fusion

On my current project, it’s necessary to host a Windows virtual machine from my MacBook Pro using VMware Fusion. This can sometimes result in a frustrating and slow development process. Out of the box: I found myself unable to use my window manager to move and resize windows as I would’ve liked, I experienced window […]

Turning VS Code into a DIY Notes App

I’ve written several posts, about my search for a great note-taking app with a text editor that uses Markdown. I’ve bounced around between a handful of different apps, but they all have flaws that make me consider switching to something else. So I’ve come back to VS Code, and I’m trying to tailor it to […]

Holding a Key Down with W3C WebdriverIO

Since the summer of 2019, WebdriverIO has fully supported the W3C WebDriver protocol (announced in this post). As part of upgrading to the latest v5 version of WebdriverIO, I decided to also switch over to using the W3C protocol for our tests that use Chrome / ChromeDriver. After switching to the W3C protocol, we found […]

Visualizing Data with Vega-Lite

Have you ever wanted to quickly chart some data without coercing it into a spreadsheet? Perhaps you even want to do something mildly complex, like differentiate the data based on some facet that isn’t being charted, or have the ability to interact with multiple visualizations at once? Vega-Lite provides a lot more power than spreadsheets […]

Command Line Fuzzy Find with fzf

My first project at Atomic Object indoctrinated me into the magic of VS Code’s fuzzy find feature. It was mind-blowing to jump directly to a file by typing a rough approximation of its full name. Then, my next project found me working in Android Studio and Xcode, both of which implement similarly excellent fuzzy finders. […]

A Beginners Guide to htop for Process Management

Are you using memory-intensive processes? Do you need to closely monitor containers and virtual systems on your computer? htop is the tool you’ve been looking for. Its color-coded display makes it easy to understand the status of your system at a glance and gives you the power to manage processes with a single keystroke. What […]

Hybrid Task and Project Management with Asana

In the past, I’ve tried out many different tools for managing tasks and projects. There’s never been one that really stood out to me as superior or one I enjoyed using all that much. But I recently gave Asana a try and was very surprised by how much I liked it. At its heart, Asana […]

Localhost to Remote in Two Commands

Do you feel too constrained by localhost? Need a quickly-deployed remote demo? Localtunnel may be the tool for you. Localtunnel is a simple tool that provides you a publicly-accessible URL that reroutes every request to your locally-running process

Setting up GitHub Actions for a React/Node Project

This week I had a chance to try out GitHub Actions — GitHub’s continuous integration solution. I was at the point in a project where I would normally turn to CircleCI, so I thought I’d give GitHub Actions a try. If it worked out, that would be one less service I’d have to sign up […]

Developing Azure Functions in a Docker Container

Of late, I’ve become enamored with using Docker containers for anything and everything (I recently posted about doing development in a Docker container). So when I needed to do some work on a small Azure Functions project, the first thing I investigated was whether or not I could do my development/testing in a Docker container […]

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