Tag Tools

Installing Neovim with LazyVim (and the Config I'm Currently Using)

There’s something satisfying about owning your editor. I’ve worked in Visual Studio, Sublime Text, VS Code, Cursor, and a handful of others over the years, and they’re all great in...

Virtual Desktops for Windows

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. Windows now ships with native virtual desktops,...

Choose Your Tools Wisely

Note: this post is from 2014; one embedded image was hosted on a service that has since gone offline and has been removed. Let’s face it programming a computer is...

Tag Coding

Installing Neovim with LazyVim (and the Config I'm Currently Using)

There’s something satisfying about owning your editor. I’ve worked in Visual Studio, Sublime Text, VS Code, Cursor, and a handful of others over the years, and they’re all great in...

Using MFA/2FA with AWS CLI/CDK and 1Password for MacOS

When you’re using AWS on the CLI or with the CDK, you have to set up your credentials and you commonly have an Access Key and a Secret Key. Those...

Trying to Get Down to the Heart of the Matter

As engineers, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. We dive deep into solving problems, chasing edge cases and perfect logic, but sometimes forget to focus on the core...

The Importance of the Ubiquitous Language

Ubiquitous: /yoo-bikwitəss/ existing everywhere: present everywhere at once, or seeming to be Language: /láng-gwij/ communication with words: the human use of spoken or written words as a communication system speech...

Choose Your Tools Wisely

Note: this post is from 2014; one embedded image was hosted on a service that has since gone offline and has been removed. Let’s face it programming a computer is...

Tag Development

Installing Neovim with LazyVim (and the Config I'm Currently Using)

There’s something satisfying about owning your editor. I’ve worked in Visual Studio, Sublime Text, VS Code, Cursor, and a handful of others over the years, and they’re all great in...

Using MFA/2FA with AWS CLI/CDK and 1Password for MacOS

When you’re using AWS on the CLI or with the CDK, you have to set up your credentials and you commonly have an Access Key and a Secret Key. Those...

Trying to Get Down to the Heart of the Matter

As engineers, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. We dive deep into solving problems, chasing edge cases and perfect logic, but sometimes forget to focus on the core...

The Importance of the Ubiquitous Language

Ubiquitous: /yoo-bikwitəss/ existing everywhere: present everywhere at once, or seeming to be Language: /láng-gwij/ communication with words: the human use of spoken or written words as a communication system speech...

Why are you using source control?

Top Reasons 1. Save code other than on a local drive 2. Share code among teams 3. Version Control Everyone that uses source control will list these reasons. I list...

Choose Your Tools Wisely

Note: this post is from 2014; one embedded image was hosted on a service that has since gone offline and has been removed. Let’s face it programming a computer is...

Tag IDE

Choose Your Tools Wisely

Note: this post is from 2014; one embedded image was hosted on a service that has since gone offline and has been removed. Let’s face it programming a computer is...

Tag .NET

Choose Your Tools Wisely

Note: this post is from 2014; one embedded image was hosted on a service that has since gone offline and has been removed. Let’s face it programming a computer is...

Tag JavaScript

Choose Your Tools Wisely

Note: this post is from 2014; one embedded image was hosted on a service that has since gone offline and has been removed. Let’s face it programming a computer is...

Tag ghost

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 2)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 1)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Tag windows

Enhancing Sublime Text Context Menus on Windows

Sublime Text It’s a great code editor. It can be an IDE if you want it to be, but at it’s heart it’s a highly extensible text editor. I love...

Virtual Desktops for Windows

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. Windows now ships with native virtual desktops,...

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 2)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 1)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Tag github pages

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 2)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 1)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Tag buster

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 2)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 1)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Tag gh-pages

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 2)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 1)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Tag blog

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 2)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 1)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Tag node.js

ES6 Command-Line Parsing

ECMA Script has come a really long way and continues to add more great features. A lot of them borrowed from functional languages and libraries. Typically there isn’t a lot...

Setting up the package.json for node.js. The short, short version

Package.json Most tutorials start with the package.json. This is a very important step. Here’s an example of a live package.json, this is Ghost v0.5’s package.json: 1 2 3 4 5...

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 2)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Using GitHub Pages with Ghost and Buster on Windows (part 1)

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. The tooling described here is also outdated...

Tag YAGNI

Constant Vigilance: Classes or Structs in C#

I’m going to have a recurring theme on the blog from time to time. I’ll probably have several, but this is the first. The theme here is constant vigilance. The...

Tag C#

Constant Vigilance: Classes or Structs in C#

I’m going to have a recurring theme on the blog from time to time. I’ll probably have several, but this is the first. The theme here is constant vigilance. The...

Tag Source Control

Why are you using source control?

Top Reasons 1. Save code other than on a local drive 2. Share code among teams 3. Version Control Everyone that uses source control will list these reasons. I list...

Tag Ubiquitous Language

Trying to Get Down to the Heart of the Matter

As engineers, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. We dive deep into solving problems, chasing edge cases and perfect logic, but sometimes forget to focus on the core...

The Importance of the Ubiquitous Language

Ubiquitous: /yoo-bikwitəss/ existing everywhere: present everywhere at once, or seeming to be Language: /láng-gwij/ communication with words: the human use of spoken or written words as a communication system speech...

Tag Software

Virtual Desktops for Windows

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. Windows now ships with native virtual desktops,...

Tag Virtual Desktops

Virtual Desktops for Windows

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. Windows now ships with native virtual desktops,...

Tag Multiple Desktops

Virtual Desktops for Windows

Note: this post is from 2014; some embedded images were hosted on a service that has since gone offline and have been removed. Windows now ships with native virtual desktops,...

Tag node

Setting up the package.json for node.js. The short, short version

Package.json Most tutorials start with the package.json. This is a very important step. Here’s an example of a live package.json, this is Ghost v0.5’s package.json: 1 2 3 4 5...

Tag package.json

Setting up the package.json for node.js. The short, short version

Package.json Most tutorials start with the package.json. This is a very important step. Here’s an example of a live package.json, this is Ghost v0.5’s package.json: 1 2 3 4 5...

Tag tutorial

Setting up the package.json for node.js. The short, short version

Package.json Most tutorials start with the package.json. This is a very important step. Here’s an example of a live package.json, this is Ghost v0.5’s package.json: 1 2 3 4 5...

Tag npm

Setting up the package.json for node.js. The short, short version

Package.json Most tutorials start with the package.json. This is a very important step. Here’s an example of a live package.json, this is Ghost v0.5’s package.json: 1 2 3 4 5...

Tag npm install

Setting up the package.json for node.js. The short, short version

Package.json Most tutorials start with the package.json. This is a very important step. Here’s an example of a live package.json, this is Ghost v0.5’s package.json: 1 2 3 4 5...

Tag npm init

Setting up the package.json for node.js. The short, short version

Package.json Most tutorials start with the package.json. This is a very important step. Here’s an example of a live package.json, this is Ghost v0.5’s package.json: 1 2 3 4 5...

Tag Sublime Text

Enhancing Sublime Text Context Menus on Windows

Sublime Text It’s a great code editor. It can be an IDE if you want it to be, but at it’s heart it’s a highly extensible text editor. I love...

Tag Context Menu

Enhancing Sublime Text Context Menus on Windows

Sublime Text It’s a great code editor. It can be an IDE if you want it to be, but at it’s heart it’s a highly extensible text editor. I love...

Tag Right Click

Enhancing Sublime Text Context Menus on Windows

Sublime Text It’s a great code editor. It can be an IDE if you want it to be, but at it’s heart it’s a highly extensible text editor. I love...

Tag Open Directory

Enhancing Sublime Text Context Menus on Windows

Sublime Text It’s a great code editor. It can be an IDE if you want it to be, but at it’s heart it’s a highly extensible text editor. I love...

Tag Open Folder

Enhancing Sublime Text Context Menus on Windows

Sublime Text It’s a great code editor. It can be an IDE if you want it to be, but at it’s heart it’s a highly extensible text editor. I love...

Tag cli

ES6 Command-Line Parsing

ECMA Script has come a really long way and continues to add more great features. A lot of them borrowed from functional languages and libraries. Typically there isn’t a lot...

Tag Javascript

Rethrowing Errors for Proper Stack Trace

Javascript, like many other languages provides the try/catch block for error handling. So what happens when you want to log the error but not handle it? That’s when it’s time...

Tag Error Handling

Rethrowing Errors for Proper Stack Trace

Javascript, like many other languages provides the try/catch block for error handling. So what happens when you want to log the error but not handle it? That’s when it’s time...

Tag Go

Hot Dog Vending Machine in Go

Some years ago I had the pleasure of learning Clojure. We’re not going to talk about Clojure much today, this post is about Go. One of the main resources I...

Tag GoLang

Hot Dog Vending Machine in Go

Some years ago I had the pleasure of learning Clojure. We’re not going to talk about Clojure much today, this post is about Go. One of the main resources I...

Tag Threading

Hot Dog Vending Machine in Go

Some years ago I had the pleasure of learning Clojure. We’re not going to talk about Clojure much today, this post is about Go. One of the main resources I...

Tag Async

Hot Dog Vending Machine in Go

Some years ago I had the pleasure of learning Clojure. We’re not going to talk about Clojure much today, this post is about Go. One of the main resources I...

Tag Mac

Setting up GPG signing on Mac

The first question you might ask is why would I want to do this? Well, if you’re using git and you want to sign your commits, you’ll need to set...

Tag GPG

Setting up GPG signing on Mac

The first question you might ask is why would I want to do this? Well, if you’re using git and you want to sign your commits, you’ll need to set...

Tag Security

Using MFA/2FA with AWS CLI/CDK and 1Password for MacOS

When you’re using AWS on the CLI or with the CDK, you have to set up your credentials and you commonly have an Access Key and a Secret Key. Those...

Tag Neovim

Installing Neovim with LazyVim (and the Config I'm Currently Using)

There’s something satisfying about owning your editor. I’ve worked in Visual Studio, Sublime Text, VS Code, Cursor, and a handful of others over the years, and they’re all great in...

Tag LazyVim

Installing Neovim with LazyVim (and the Config I'm Currently Using)

There’s something satisfying about owning your editor. I’ve worked in Visual Studio, Sublime Text, VS Code, Cursor, and a handful of others over the years, and they’re all great in...