HTTP Status as a Service
My latest side project is status.icu a toy product for automated testing. More info is available on Medium
PrettyLoader: A Pattern for Wait Animations in React
8 Tips for Dealing With Large React Codebases
(X-posted to Medium)
Typecheck Your JS With Flow and Get Code Comments for Free
Available on the Revelry Labs Blog
My Simple VIM Setup
Available on the Revelry Labs Blog
Migrate Github Wiki to Media Wiki in 10 Not-So-Easy Steps
Available on the Revelry Labs Blog
Xtreme Learning: 9 Tips to Getting Up and Running When You’re Cutting Your Teeth Against Development Problems
Available on the Revelry Labs Blog
DJ Chrono: A Slackbot Using the Toggl API
Available on the Revelry Labs Blog
Tips for Building a Text-Based UI in Node
Over the past week or so, I’ve been working on building Straturgery, a text-based game, playable over telnet, written in node.js.
The game, being both text-based and only accesable over telnet has provided some interesting challenges. I can’t use ncurses (since telnet is text-only), and have to build my windows and interfaces by hand. Here are a few things I’ve learned.
Side Project: Watching All the Tech Job Openings in New Orleans
For a long time, I’ve been fascinated by websites that are simply a generated set of flat files. 9 times out of ten, the content you want to put up on the web doesn’t change enough to warrant a big back end database. Generating files (HTML and the like) up from and simply serving a bunch of static files is a great way to have a simple and fast website.
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