Technology

I'm working on a fun new project that is making me write a lot of HTML and CSS. I've taken this opportunity to learn CSS grid. Wow, it's really nice. I wanted to share some treasures, as well as a…

Building on my last post, I wanted to breakdown a similar bash script that will install a tool from HashiCorp called Packer. HashiCorp is a company creating tools that make managing cloud…

Today, I'm going to run down a bash script for installing Firefox Developer Edition on Ubuntu 18.04+. I found several blog posts already out there on how to do this, but none of them actually worked…

Returning from a long break, I thought I'd try something totally new. I've long been looking for a way to programmatically rebuild my laptop, so I can nuke it whenever I feel like, run a set of…

I used to have a really big problem. I used to be a terrible procrastinator. I am way too good at distracting myself from what I should be doing. I'm changing that though, and I'm doing it by…

A shortstack developer is always two pancakes short of a full stack. A full stack of pancakes is five pancakes and a shortstack is only three. A fullstack software developer is expected to know…

I was listening to a podcast yesterday, and I had an epiphany while listening: The downside of making a language more expressive is it also makes it harder to learn. Javascript in 1996, when I learned…

Once again, the speed of JavaScript evolution is apparent. When you learn it all together, it's easier to see how an idea is being iterated upon. In this case, the Rest and Spread operators we…

Async functions are a special type of function that returns a Promise. They've been designed to make Promises easier to work with. Imagine they're kind of like all the new String methods, except…

ES2017 brings new String methods for us, which honestly, feel a little weird. I think they're mostly in response to the famous leftpad incident, whereby a disgruntled developer brought a shocking…