Author Archives for vlucas

Airtable API filterByFormula

June 12, 2019 4:05 pm Published by Comments Off on Airtable API filterByFormula

There 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 Published by Comments Off on New Blog Design

Finally, a blog that doesn’t look like every other blog out there. I had a simple and clean design up... View Article


Building a Custom Swing Set

October 26, 2018 4:29 pm Published by Comments Off on Building a Custom Swing Set

Sometimes 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 Published by Comments Off on Using window.confirm as a Promise

When 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 Published by Comments Off on YakYak: Google Hangouts Desktop App

The 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 Published by Comments Off on Chromeless: Switching to Firefox

I 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 Published by Comments Off on My Biggest Regret of 2017

Now that 2017 has come to a close, I can safely say that my single biggest regret of 2017 was... View Article


ThunderPlains 2017

November 1, 2017 4:26 pm Published by Comments Off on ThunderPlains 2017

ThunderPlains is coming up fast – just two days away! This is the fifth year of co-organizing the conference, and... View Article


Vim With ESLint

July 7, 2017 6:58 pm Published by Comments Off on Vim With ESLint

If you’re looking to add ESLint capabilities to Vim, check out ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine). It’s faster than syntastic, and... View Article


Effective Browser JavaScript Debugging

June 7, 2017 11:37 pm Published by Comments Off on Effective Browser JavaScript Debugging

How to effectively debug your web application is increasingly becoming a critical skill for any web developer, especially with the... View Article


ChurchMint Apps Are Published

March 17, 2017 2:58 pm Published by Comments Off on ChurchMint Apps Are Published

This is a big milestone for my main side project. After over half a year of hard work leading up to... View Article


Oracle Acquires NetSuite

March 17, 2017 2:34 pm Published by Comments Off on Oracle Acquires NetSuite

This is old news at this point, but I now officially work for Oracle since Oracle acquired NetSuite. The employment transition... View Article


One Project

August 19, 2016 9:50 pm Published by Comments Off on One Project

Last year, I committed to launching 4 new projects by the end of the year. I did succeed in that... View Article