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2026

entr: watch some files, and run something whenever they changeoriginal ↗
28 May 2026
thoughts on software development and the rise of LLMsoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2026

2024

mocking in Vitest: how to conditionally modify a mocked imported function's behaviororiginal ↗
20 Nov 2024
Cypress component testing with Svelte v5 (and SvelteKit)original ↗
9 Oct 2024
Setting up SvelteKit to use SQLite and prerender a static site to be hosted on GitLab Pagesoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2024
Oghamic Toki Ponaoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2024

2023

a Vim syntax file for Toki Ponaoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2023
sourdough pizza dough ratio calculatororiginal ↗
28 Jul 2023
Oghamic Lojbanoriginal ↗
25 May 2023
nasin pi lipu nimioriginal ↗
23 May 2023
how to consistently pay back dependency tech-debt in an Agile environmentoriginal ↗
11 May 2023
👈 ⏮️ 🧠 🗣 ⏩ 🗣 👍original ↗
24 Apr 2023
framework-less CLI TDD with NPM* OMG LOLoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2023
Hot Ones standuporiginal ↗
30 Mar 2023
creating a new Git repo based on the history of an old oneoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2023

2022

npm ci with legacy-peer-deps is a thingoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2022
resizing tab width on GitHub diffsoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2022
BReport is dead; long live the microlithoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2022
upgrading Cypress to v10 within a Gatsby projectoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2022
open Mac application from the command-lineoriginal ↗
25 May 2022
Git archaeology tipsoriginal ↗
4 May 2022
how to run React on top of Ruby-on-Railsoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2022
One Weird Trick to Easily Remove (maybe) Anything from a Webpageoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2022

2021

reviving this blogoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2021

2018

counting eggs before they hatchoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2018

2017

logging meta tagsoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2017
hapi — unset a cookieoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2017
how to find the merge where your code disappearedoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2017
eslint — Cannot read property 'value' of undefinedoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2017

2016

don't be scared of merge conflictsoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2016
use a Dvorak keyboard layout on iOS Simulatororiginal ↗
4 Aug 2016
notes for npmCamp 2016original ↗
30 Jul 2016
version control commit messagesoriginal ↗
20 May 2016
linking to code? always use an href which is tied to a specific commitoriginal ↗
6 May 2016
search Git history, ignoring certain directoryoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2016
getting Hound-CI to show Rubocop "cop names" againoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2016
installing an old version of something via `brew`original ↗
19 Feb 2016
how to mark an email as "not-spam" in Google's Inboxoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2016

2015

ElixirConf US 2015 notesoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2015
typing an ellipsis in OS Xoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2015
La trahison des motsoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2015
getting started with Spacemacsoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2015
advanced filtering in Chrome's Network dev toolsoriginal ↗
30 May 2015
only show single branch status in CI status feedsoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2015
notes — Erlang Factory 2015original ↗
27 Mar 2015
jiggling the handle of OS X 10.8.5's dockoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2015
project naming chains of nonsenseoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2015
wanted — a replacement for actionitems.usoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2015

2014

sometimes iTunes doesn't show the currently-playing song's name and positionoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2014
Sharpening Your Toolsoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2014
killing processesoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2014
RequireJS 'invalid require call' errororiginal ↗
16 Aug 2014
setting up fancy fonts for vim in iTermoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2014