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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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Navigating the Adderall Prescription Maze in 2024: A Monthly Adventure

21 October, 2024 12:30 PM

// Written with ChatGPT Ah, the joys of modern healthcare! If you’ve ever had the pleasure of refilling an Adderall XR prescription, you…

Gatsby Dark Mode with Themes

21 October, 2024 12:29 PM

Implementing Dark Mode in GatsbyJS 4.7 With the release of GatsbyJS 4.7, developers now have more tools and features at their disposal to…

Thoughts on Tesla Service: A Seamless User Experience

07 March, 2024 11:52 AM

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

30 March, 2023 10:46 PM

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

22 October, 2022 3:56 PM

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

08 June, 2022 10:46 PM

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

13 March, 2022 9:55 AM

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

30 September, 2021 9:21 AM

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

29 September, 2021 8:58 AM

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

06 May, 2021 2:15 PM

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

14 January, 2021 6:55 PM

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

23 July, 2020 5:23 PM

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

23 May, 2020 12:49 PM

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

22 February, 2020 1:34 PM

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

28 January, 2020 9:39 PM

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

16 January, 2020 12:47 PM

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

02 December, 2019 4:28 PM

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

23 September, 2019 1:23 PM

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

20 September, 2019 11:45 AM

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

06 September, 2019 7:13 PM

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?

28 June, 2019 3:17 PM

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

27 June, 2019 2:37 PM

prep time: 5min / cooking time: 30-40min Been really loving how easy and delicious this recipe is from cookinglsl Ingredients 2 lb…

Welcome!

27 June, 2019 1:40 PM

Hey there, my name is Matt. I’m a husband, dog dad, software engineer, musician, photographer, coffee enthusiast, life-long learner…