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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? ...

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 ...

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. ...

Here’s my annual professional review covering 2018. ...

Here’s my list of favorite programming books. ...

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. ...

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

A few weeks ago, I built an app with React.js and create-react-app that I call ‘JavaScript Equality’. View deployment here. This application demonstrates the JavaScript value-comparison operators == and ===. It’s inspired by the JavaScript Equality Table. ...

My current favorite command line alias is mgrim, composed of four other aliases. Here’s what it is, and what it does. ...

A user opened an issue in Tilex last week that I spent a significant amount of time thinking about and talking about (thanks JB) before responding to. Here’s the truncated request: May I ask you to compile a step-by-step list to set up a running TIL instance? ...