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2024-05-06

Self-hosting Stuff

There comes a moment in every tech-inclined person's life where they look at some service on the internet and think "Man, I could host that". My time is now. Why can't I hold all of these ~limes~ CAT 6 cables? Pi-hole Pi-hole — the place where ads go to die™ Or as they put it, and maybe with a litt...


2024-05-01

Tilt and Task

A frictionless development environment is hard to achieve. It's harder to make that repeatable and idempotent on every developer's machine in an org. A few sticking points for any org of a particular size are: Onboarding new software engineers quickly, quietly, and with as little fuss as possible B...


2018-05-29

Vue, Jest, and Netlify

Frontend programming is hard Frontend programming is difficult to do rigorously. It's too easy to cobble together some frontend code that kinda works. Crafting a good user experience with a coherent UI is a craft and a science. And to be honest, a good UX/UI usually makes or breaks a product. The wo...