Author Archives for vlucas
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
July 7, 2017 6:58 pm
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If you’re looking to add ESLint capabilities to Vim, check out ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine). It’s faster than syntastic, and... View Article
June 7, 2017 11:37 pm
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How to effectively debug your web application is increasingly becoming a critical skill for any web developer, especially with the... View Article
March 17, 2017 2:58 pm
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This is a big milestone for my main side project. After over half a year of hard work leading up to... View Article
March 17, 2017 2:34 pm
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This is old news at this point, but I now officially work for Oracle since Oracle acquired NetSuite. The employment transition... View Article
February 14, 2017 2:03 am
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Remember when all the blogs in PHP land were telling you to use single quotes because double quotes are slow?... View Article
January 26, 2017 11:50 pm
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If your encryption method produces the same encrypted result given the same original text input, your encryption is broken. Yet... View Article
January 4, 2017 4:27 pm
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Over the holidays, I spent about 20 hours spread out over a few days to build and launch the new... View Article
December 7, 2016 11:49 pm
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I was happy to be invited to speak at Confoo Vancouver 2016. I have spoken at Confoo Montreal in the... View Article
October 25, 2016 12:58 am
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If you use the widely recommended best practice of putting your application configuration in environment variables, then you have probably also... View Article
August 19, 2016 9:50 pm
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Last year, I committed to launching 4 new projects by the end of the year. I did succeed in that... View Article