Author Archives for vlucas
December 17, 2020 4:52 pm
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With all the outcry over censorship on social media by tech giants after the most recent 2020 election cycle, it... View Article
September 10, 2020 3:25 pm
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Occasionally you may find the need to sleep for a bit or use setTimeout in your code or your test... View Article
August 25, 2020 2:38 pm
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BudgetSheet is your own bank transactions in your own spreadsheet so that you can budget your own way. That’s the... View Article
August 20, 2020 3:44 pm
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If you constantly get the following git error message after attempting a git push with a new local branch: Then... View Article
August 5, 2020 4:48 pm
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After getting into yet another stupid and pointless opinion scuffle on Twitter where no one wins, I decided to pull... View Article
August 5, 2020 4:21 pm
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I recently quit Twitter and deleted all my tweets and likes. This post shows how you can do the same.... View Article
May 20, 2020 5:25 pm
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The #1 question I ask myself before starting any new side project idea or startup venture: “Is this increasing in... View Article
January 9, 2020 3:25 pm
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If all you want to do is add the default Google Analytics tracking code to your website with no other... View Article
November 26, 2019 8:31 pm
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Memory leaks in server side JavaScript with Node.js can cause your server to crash and reboot constantly in a cycle,... View Article
November 12, 2019 3:45 pm
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I put in my notice with NetSuite/Oracle in mid-September, and started with RentPath in early October. There were a lot... View Article
August 14, 2019 2:12 pm
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I have been working on Frisby.js for the better part of a decade now. Frisby.js 2.0 has been released for... View Article
June 12, 2019 4:05 pm
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There is not a lot of documentation around advanced usage of the Airtable API, but it has some fantastic features... View Article
June 12, 2019 3:27 pm
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Finally, a blog that doesn’t look like every other blog out there. I had a simple and clean design up... View Article
April 19, 2019 6:32 pm
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Prosper just got hit with a cease and desist order from the SEC over an issue that apparently stems from... View Article
February 23, 2019 4:53 am
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I put together a presentation for Free Code Camp OKC on why side projects are so important, and how a... View Article
January 30, 2019 9:24 pm
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By the time web notifications are widely supported in all browsers and mobile devices for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to... View Article
January 25, 2019 3:05 pm
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As of January 15, 2019, I am no longer the President of Techlahoma. I am still on the board however,... View Article
October 26, 2018 4:29 pm
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Sometimes it’s good to spend some time away from the computer and do some real hands-on work. Last weekend I... View Article
April 23, 2018 7:05 pm
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When writing a modern JavaScript application that uses Promises or async/await, it is sometimes useful to wrap other things in... View Article
January 12, 2018 8:38 pm
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The biggest downside to switching away from Chrome, is that you effectively lose access to Google Hangouts, because of how... View Article
January 12, 2018 8:24 pm
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I have been a long-time Google Chrome user, but have been wanting to switch to Firefox for the past several... View Article
January 8, 2018 9:48 pm
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Now that 2017 has come to a close, I can safely say that my single biggest regret of 2017 was... View Article
January 8, 2018 9:33 pm
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My board term for Techlahoma – a non-profit I co-founded along with Jesse and Amanda Harlin – was up at... View Article
November 1, 2017 4:26 pm
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ThunderPlains is coming up fast – just two days away! This is the fifth year of co-organizing the conference, and... View Article
July 25, 2017 8:32 pm
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Over the past few months, my own outlook on the wide use of social media has grown dim. I have... View Article