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Homebrew: Switching Keg Versions

Homebrew lets you install and maintain system libraries. Here's how to use the switch command to switch between keg versions in Homebrew.

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Computational Narratives with Jupyter Notebook

Jupyter Notebook is a tool for exploring data, developing and testing algorithms, and constructing computational narratives.

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Simple Android REST calls with Retrofit2

In this post, I'll discuss the basics of getting started with Retrofit2, as well as a few tricks I've found useful when using it.

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How to Remove Extra Separator Lines in a UITableView

When your UITableView does not have enough data, it will show empty cells with separators to fill out the screen. Here's how to get rid of them.

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Bringing Rails-Like Migrations to JavaScript with Knex.js

With a little intuition and a lot of help from Google, we stumbled upon Knex.js—an SQL query builder that is meant to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.

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Tired of Your Shell? Try Zsh!

Zsh is a command line shell, similar to Bash—with many more built-in features. Here are a few of its features that boost my productivity.

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Reproducible Builds with NPM (And Why You Should Use Yarn Instead)

I'll show how you can get reproducible builds in NPM, and I'll demonstrate just how much nicer Yarn is than the alternative.

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Monitoring Stdout with a Timeout

An example of using expect's timeout feature to wait for specific stdout output coming from a background process.

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Using Jenkins To Perform Other Operational Tasks

Here's a discussion of a couple of other ways to leverage Jenkins to simplify and automate other tasks in your software operations

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Custom QUnit Assertions

QUnit makes it easy to write custom assertions that improve the legibility of your tests and their reports. Here's how to log an assertion.

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IDE Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

Text editors are great at just that–editing text. For large projects, I would recommend looking into an IDE. You might be surprised what you discover.

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Debugging ES6 Code in Node.js

There's been a lot of effort to add ES6 compatibility to browsers (and Node.js). I'm going to use three Node debugging techniques modified to work with ES6.

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