November 26, 2020

My Annotated Vim Configuration File

I love Vim. Folks who’ve programmed with me, or attended a Vim Meetup when I was an organizer, can attest. When I was learning to code, getting fast at Vim changed everything for me. After almost a decade using this editor, here are my personal configurations.

October 29, 2020

Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot

Programming is a new and abstract field, and so we place great emphasis on ideas. When I find one that sticks with me, I end up sharing it again and again. These are some of my favorites.

October 20, 2020

My Development Roadmap

I’ve been working on a development roadmap for my projects, and wanted to share my process. Consider this my recipe to turn an idea into software.

October 16, 2020

You Have New Mail

Here’s a familiar scenario: you open a new terminal, and before the prompt appears, you see the following.

You have new mail.

What’s going on here?

October 9, 2020

Duplicate your Development Branch for QA

I’m working on a team where we keep a clone of the development branch (the main place where work is done), used to deploy to a QA environment. The benefits of this branching technique are:

clone is isolated from work
It’s easy to tell what was deployed to QA– clone is the source of truth

August 3, 2020

How I Clean Up JavaScript Dependencies

Unused dependencies are bad: they increase the size of your project, slow down your processes, require upgrades, and send incorrect messages to fellow developers about what’s important. Make your project better by periodically auditing your dependencies, and removing those that are unused.

December 31, 2019

My Annual Review 2019

Here’s my annual professional review covering 2018.

September 28, 2019

Technologist Reading List

Here’s my list of favorite programming books.

September 11, 2019

A Short Introduction to Test-Driven-Development (TDD)

I’ve practiced TDD (Test-Driven-Development) a lot and feel knowledgable about when it’s useful and when it isn’t. In this post, I’d like to summarize what I’ve learned.

July 29, 2019

Pangram in TypeScript

I’ve been doing Exercism’s TypeScript exercises, and wanted to share my pangram-checking utility.