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From pixels to pipelines – with detours into creativity and daily discipline.

npm Trusted Publishing and GitHub Actions

I'm building a little Yeoman-esque tool as a learning and practice opportunity, since I've got some interviews coming up, and I wanted to get the package published via GitHub Actions. I found the rele...

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Minimum Viable Prompt

You've been there, going back and forth with your AI coding agent, where what you're prompting just isn't getting through to the agent.

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F5: Some Life Updates

New year (well, more than a year since I really touched this site apart from updating my resume), new me. Also it's December, who cares.

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2023 Goal Update (1 of 11)

In my New Job, Atom Feed, 2023 Goals post I mentioned 5 goals for the new year. This is the first of 11 posts I will make throughout the rest of this year with updates.

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Returning Amazon Orders to Whole Foods

Two weeks ago, I ordered a wireless CarPlay adapter so my partner and I wouldn't have to plug in our phones when driving in order to use CarPlay.

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New Job, Atom Feeds, 2023 Goals

The new year has come; a time for new beginnings.

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2022 in Review

Another year has come and gone, and I've decided to redesign and reimplement certain features of this site. Let's start with a postmortem of sorts since the last time I wrote something here.

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Module Import Patterns in Javascript

I'm curious if anyone else has preferences on how imports are ordered in Javascript / Typescript files in the age of bundlers.

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Auto-Generating Social Preview Images

Social preview images are used to entice viewers to read your content when they come across the image on a social network. Websites like Twitter and Facebook read meta tags on your website, and will s...

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Tailwind Just-In-Time Compiler

Tailwind.css added a compilation mode in v. 2.1 to allow Just-in-Time compilation of the library, removing the need for enabling/disabling different variants or creating new styles for quirky one-offs...

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