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April 20, 2024

Solving the New York Times Letter Boxed Puzzle with Regular Expressions

Our household has been playing a lot of the NYT games lately. I find the Letter Boxed puzzle particularly tricky, whi...

January 3, 2024

Behind the Scenes: How We Fixed Leftover Underlines in the Grammarly Text Editor Plugin

This blog post was originally written for the Grammarly for Developers blog, and was published there on November 8, 2...

December 19, 2023

Recover a Lost Commit Message

Today, I was writing a long, careful git commit message. No git commit -m "fixes" for me—this was a real novel. It ha...

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December 13, 2023 Swimming with Audiobooks
September 18, 2023 Changesets vs Semantic Release
March 24, 2022 Contentful migration strategy
February 23, 2022 Raw SQL Array parameters in Rails
November 5, 2021 Alpine.js vs Stimulus
October 1, 2021 Avoiding CORS with a proxy
August 29, 2021 Clipbox for S3
July 8, 2021 DB Export for Datalake
May 20, 2021 Aurora Serverless DB Export
January 7, 2021 Readable Bash Scripts
November 17, 2020 Vue Browser Extensions with Parcel
January 1, 2020 I was Promised Pizza
December 30, 2019 Writing an Implementation Plan
May 3, 2019 A Tale of Two Sorted Lists: Comparing Inheritance and Composition
January 26, 2019 Scheduling a Medical Residency using Python
December 12, 2018 Migrating an ASP Web App to .NET Core
December 3, 2018 Vanquishing CORS with CloudFront and Lambda@Edge
November 3, 2018 Programming on MacOS in 2018
October 24, 2018 A Cloudfront Mystery
January 30, 2018 Mongo Schemas with Pokemon
December 7, 2017 Copy on Read with ES6 Proxy
September 28, 2017 d3 Event Issues
September 26, 2017 Inline SVG styles
September 20, 2017 Python-style Context Managers in JavaScript
March 23, 2017 Migrating a Primary Key to Bigint
March 22, 2017 Django Migrations Tribulations
August 31, 2016 Setting up GNU pass with Alfred
March 31, 2016 Meddlesome Decorators
March 15, 2016 Facebook Messages Auto-reply
July 22, 2015 Postgres Advisory Locks
May 25, 2015 More Than Smoke and Mirrors
February 1, 2015 Decorators without the Magic
September 18, 2014 Wolfram Presentation at Strange Loop
July 18, 2014 Pair Programming with wemux and ngrok
March 7, 2014 Where's the Facebook app?
December 12, 2013 pthreads and PRNGs, oh my!
November 10, 2013 Grading on a Curve
September 19, 2013 Putnam Boxes and Balls
August 31, 2013 Muggles and Base Two
June 21, 2013 LaTeX Therefore package
June 1, 2012 Minishell
September 28, 2011 LaTeX Class