How to sleep() With Promises and async/await
September 10, 2020 3:25 pm Comments Off on How to sleep() With Promises and async/awaitOccasionally you may find the need to sleep for a bit or use setTimeout in your code or your test... View Article
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BudgetSheet
August 25, 2020 2:38 pm Comments Off on BudgetSheetBudgetSheet is your own bank transactions in your own spreadsheet so that you can budget your own way. That’s the... View Article
How to Fix Git fatal: The current branch has no upstream branch
August 20, 2020 3:44 pm Comments Off on How to Fix Git fatal: The current branch has no upstream branchIf you constantly get the following git error message after attempting a git push with a new local branch: Then... View Article
Scorched Earth: Quitting Twitter and Deleting Everything
August 5, 2020 4:48 pm Comments Off on Scorched Earth: Quitting Twitter and Deleting EverythingAfter getting into yet another stupid and pointless opinion scuffle on Twitter where no one wins, I decided to pull... View Article
How to Delete Tweets and Likes from Twitter
August 5, 2020 4:21 pm Comments Off on How to Delete Tweets and Likes from TwitterI recently quit Twitter and deleted all my tweets and likes. This post shows how you can do the same.... View Article
Increasing in Relevance
May 20, 2020 5:25 pm Comments Off on Increasing in RelevanceThe #1 question I ask myself before starting any new side project idea or startup venture: “Is this increasing in... View Article
Using Google Analytics With React
January 9, 2020 3:25 pm Comments Off on Using Google Analytics With ReactIf all you want to do is add the default Google Analytics tracking code to your website with no other... View Article
How To Troubleshoot JavaScript Memory Leaks
November 26, 2019 8:31 pm Comments Off on How To Troubleshoot JavaScript Memory LeaksMemory leaks in server side JavaScript with Node.js can cause your server to crash and reboot constantly in a cycle,... View Article
Joining RentPath as Engineering Team Lead
November 12, 2019 3:45 pm Comments Off on Joining RentPath as Engineering Team LeadI put in my notice with NetSuite/Oracle in mid-September, and started with RentPath in early October. There were a lot... View Article
Frisby.js v2.0 – The REST API Testing Framework
August 14, 2019 2:12 pm Comments Off on Frisby.js v2.0 – The REST API Testing FrameworkI have been working on Frisby.js for the better part of a decade now. Frisby.js 2.0 has been released for... View Article
Airtable API filterByFormula
June 12, 2019 4:05 pm Comments Off on Airtable API filterByFormulaThere is not a lot of documentation around advanced usage of the Airtable API, but it has some fantastic features... View Article
New Blog Design
June 12, 2019 3:27 pm Comments Off on New Blog DesignFinally, a blog that doesn’t look like every other blog out there. I had a simple and clean design up... View Article
Prosper vs SEC Over Technical Debt
April 19, 2019 6:32 pm Comments Off on Prosper vs SEC Over Technical DebtProsper just got hit with a cease and desist order from the SEC over an issue that apparently stems from... View Article
The Importance of Side Projects and Why You Need One
February 23, 2019 4:53 am Comments Off on The Importance of Side Projects and Why You Need OneI put together a presentation for Free Code Camp OKC on why side projects are so important, and how a... View Article
The AdTech Industry is Ruining Web Push Notifications for PWAs
January 30, 2019 9:24 pm Comments Off on The AdTech Industry is Ruining Web Push Notifications for PWAsBy the time web notifications are widely supported in all browsers and mobile devices for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to... View Article
Stepping Down From President of Techlahoma
January 25, 2019 3:05 pm Comments Off on Stepping Down From President of TechlahomaAs of January 15, 2019, I am no longer the President of Techlahoma. I am still on the board however,... View Article
Building a Custom Swing Set
October 26, 2018 4:29 pm Comments Off on Building a Custom Swing SetSometimes it’s good to spend some time away from the computer and do some real hands-on work. Last weekend I... View Article
Using window.confirm as a Promise
April 23, 2018 7:05 pm Comments Off on Using window.confirm as a PromiseWhen writing a modern JavaScript application that uses Promises or async/await, it is sometimes useful to wrap other things in... View Article
YakYak: Google Hangouts Desktop App
January 12, 2018 8:38 pm Comments Off on YakYak: Google Hangouts Desktop AppThe biggest downside to switching away from Chrome, is that you effectively lose access to Google Hangouts, because of how... View Article
Chromeless: Switching to Firefox
January 12, 2018 8:24 pm Comments Off on Chromeless: Switching to FirefoxI have been a long-time Google Chrome user, but have been wanting to switch to Firefox for the past several... View Article
My Biggest Regret of 2017
January 8, 2018 9:48 pm Comments Off on My Biggest Regret of 2017Now that 2017 has come to a close, I can safely say that my single biggest regret of 2017 was... View Article
2018 Techlahoma Board Re-Election
January 8, 2018 9:33 pm Comments Off on 2018 Techlahoma Board Re-ElectionMy board term for Techlahoma – a non-profit I co-founded along with Jesse and Amanda Harlin – was up at... View Article
ThunderPlains 2017
November 1, 2017 4:26 pm Comments Off on ThunderPlains 2017ThunderPlains is coming up fast – just two days away! This is the fifth year of co-organizing the conference, and... View Article
Social Media Is Bad For Your Health
July 25, 2017 8:32 pm Comments Off on Social Media Is Bad For Your HealthOver the past few months, my own outlook on the wide use of social media has grown dim. I have... View Article
Vim With ESLint
July 7, 2017 6:58 pm Comments Off on Vim With ESLintIf you’re looking to add ESLint capabilities to Vim, check out ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine). It’s faster than syntastic, and... View Article