Get to da Terminal
One bored day I decided to make it as easy as possible to open a Terminal on my Mac. Here’s what I did.
Isomorphic JavaScript, Web Standards and Documentation Driven Design
Documenting a library I haven't even created, and probably won't.
Eleventy WebC in a nutshell
Quickly get started with WebC in an Eleventy website.
Creating a HTTP proxy with Deno
Turns out its pretty easy to create a reverse proxy with Deno, here's how.
Host an ics calendar feed with Eleventy
Using Eleventy, you can create a website that hosts an ical feed that people can subscribe to in their calendars of choice.
Embed JSDoc comments in an Eleventy website
How to embed JSDoc comments from an API into an Eleventy site to referecnce it rather than duplicate it.
Yoath released
My app got published!
Using URLPattern to add "edit on GitHub" support to my blog
I had a quick idea to add "edit on GitHub" similar to how github.com uses the "." shortcut to open github.dev
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Regrets of a Research Software Engineer’s tech stacks
I've been thinking about all the JavaScript I've written and deployed recently
Trying to make a vanilla web app
Last year we rebuilt our lab's co-operative coffee system and I didn't use any frameworks
Creating drag interactions with setPointerCapture in JavaScript
Using "pointer" events and setPointerCapture in JavaScript you can create drag interactions with quite little JavaScript.
Deploying ESP32 with SPIFFS using github actions
Playing around with ESP32s has led to some interesting automations to make the whole process easier.
ESM Node.js TypeScript with subpath exports
ES Modules are the future, now you can use them in TypeScript and publish them on NPM with subpaths.
Getting started with kube-prometheus-stack
I recently added monitoring and alerting to my Kubernetes stack to discover and respond to failures faster. It took me way too long so here's what I did and learned along the way.
Creating custom JavaScript errors
Custom errors are a powerful tool in JavaScript. Here's how to create them with modern ES classes and static methods.
Creating a Nova Extension with TypeScript
I've been playing a lot with Nova recently, here's my experiences and best practices for creating Nove extensions with TypeScript.
Bundle JavaScript with Eleventy and esbuild
How to add JavaScript and bundle it together for an Eleventy project plus integration with the development server for automatic reloading.
Compile Sass with eleventy
How to add Sass/Scss to an Eleventy project and integrate it with the development server for automatic reloading.
Quick Array to Map Conversion in JavaScript
How to quickly and concisly convert a JavaScript Array into a Map to enable efficient lookups.
Running Node.Js as a systemd service
I had a Node.js app that I wanted to run when my Raspberry Pi Zero started up in a minimal manor. Here's how I created a systemd service to do it.
My first generator function
I finally did it, I found a use for JavaScript's generator functions, wrote one and now its deployed!
Automating developer operations for Node.js
I've been working on my GitOps for a while now and wanted to document it all in one place.
Tales from the bashrc: d1
One of my most used bashrc commands, docker-run-once-interactively or d1
Useful Raspberry Pi WiFi commands
I keep needing these commands when doing pi things, so I thought I'd put them here in one place
Spoofing a Raspberry Pi's mac address
Sometimes you just want to fake a raspberry pi's mac address to appear as something else on the network. This is how to do that.
Tales from the bashrc: bashrc
I added a command to make adding commands easier.
Connecting a Raspberry pi to 802.1x WiFi
I've been playing around with Pis while on University Pi's recently so I want to document this non-simple process.
Tales from the bashrc: npr
I added a new alias to my repertoire to make running npm commands more usable.
A minimal kiosk mode for a Raspberry Pi
When you need a Raspberry Pi to just display a webpage, you don't really need an entire operating system and window manager. This was my solution.
Using jsx WITHOUT React
I wanted to do some lightweight javascript recently and didn't want to use a massive framework. Creating all my DOM elements manually was laborious and ugly so I setup jsx to do it for me.