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I’m working on a side project that uses DynamoDB. I got tired of waiting for my DynamoDB table changes to complete, so I decided to try…

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Triggering actions within a React app, in a way that's not gross.

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Shortcuts and aliases for easy version control.

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General guidelines for not angering coworkers (or your future self).

Setting up `npm` on a new machine.

Using a Docker container to experiment with idempotent package management.

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Last hurrah for JSConf US.

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Using `dd` to flash an image to a USB device.

I use nginx over Apache for a number of reasons. First of all, its config files make a lot more sense to me. Since I work mostly with C…

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In a previous post , I mentioned that I’d integrate the formula so that coffee consumption could be considered an event of finite duration…

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For a while now I’ve been longing for a personal infrastructure---a Git server, a Jenkins server, and some form of automated deployment. I…

Looking through an old server from a hosting provider I’m migrating away from, I found an old algorithm I used to estimate blood caffeine…

At work I’ve been tasked with converting a cronjob to run on Ubuntu’s excellent Upstart system. I have to say, Upstart is freaking awesome…