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This is a place for my thoughts on many of the things I love in life. From web development, to restaurant reveiws and recipes, to woodworking. These thoughts are my own for the world to hopefully learn a little more about me.
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Thoughts on Tesla Service: A Seamless User Experience
When you think of car servicing, you might conjure up images of cumbersome paperwork, long waiting times, and a general sense of…
The problem with chronic illness
It is so difficult for people to comprehend chronic illness. I was in the cancer clinic today for a routine checkup but dislocated my ankle…
Easily Password Protect NextJS pages with Iron Session
Say you want to set up a simple password protected page (or a bunch of pages), just for yourself, in your NextJS application. It's super…
Connect To fly.io Sqlite Production Database
Gonna give a quick how to for connecting to and getting your sqlite database from your production app on fly.io. It can be a bit confusing…
Sorting One Array With Another in JavaScript
Recently I needed to sort one array I had no control of to show specific categories in a specific order. Any items in the array of…
Angular Dynamic Page Titles with Nested Routes
This is a quick demo of one way you can accomplish dynamic page titles in the html head tags with Angular. This should work in most recent…
Apply Auto Setting to Multiple Photos in Lightroom CC
This is a relatively simple problem to solve but didn't see it posted elsewhere. After reading this tutorial you will know how to copy and…
Destructure Optional Params in Typescript
Sometimes you have a function with an optional Object argument that you want to destructure in the function. Like so: However you'll get an…
How to find a Database in 2021
I haven’t been around as long as some, but I’ve been around web development to remember the days where everyone had a cpanel and managed…
Cancer Imposter Syndrome
I know we usually reference "imposter syndrome" when we talk about jobs and the fear that you might be exposed as a fraud who fooled their…
Automate Firebase 🔥 hosting with Github Actions
UPDATE 01/21/21: Using the firebase init command you can now automatically set up deployment from Github through the CLI and you shouldn't…
How to generate a random ID in JavaScript
I'm sure this is posted in a ton of places already but I thought I would share a method I sometimes use to generate random strings of…
Going Home (Almost) - day 28
Update: A weekend pathologist made a mistake and what they thought were leukemia blasts were really just new white blood cells. We did…
The Fight Against Leukemia Begins
Three weeks ago I found myself lying in a hospital bed after a full day in the ER, a blood transfusion dripping into one of my IVs…
Conditional Vue Hash Router
Recently I built a Vue app for a client that existed inside an existing Wordpress site. The Vue app was responsible for handling a complex…
Webpack Image Loading
Sometimes you have to make a custom webpack config. Whether you're working on making a vue app inside a server rendered framework like…
Gratinata Pasta Sauce
prep time: 20min / cooking time: 10min This amazingly delicious pasta sauce is perfect for baked pasta dishes with shrimp or chicken or…
Netlify Dev + Serverless Functions + Mailchimp Subscribe Form Tutorial
You've probably heard about Netlify , the amazing static host that literally makes everything about static website hosting feel like a walk…
Why don’t we talk to users?
Have you ever been in a meeting with a stakeholder and you or someone else suggests interviewing users or looking at user feedback in order…
Easy Weeknight Chicken Thighs
prep time: 5min / cooking time: 30-40min Been really loving how easy and delicious this recipe is from cookinglsl Ingredients 2 lb…
