I'm a full stack developer, musician, and educator living in Minneapolis.
Say you have two Claude accounts: a personal one you pay for, and a work one your company pays for. The work account should only ever touch company repos. The personal one is for everything else. By d
In React code, you may see the following ways of calling functions in jsx elements: onClick={handleClick} onClick={() => handleClick()} Understanding the difference and when to use which pattern is a common point of confusion. Let’s unpack what’s r...
The Ruby Koans are a fantastic resource to introducing the concepts and syntax of the Ruby programming language. In this post, we’ll explore the concepts posed by about_class_methods.rb: class methods, instance methods, and singleton methods. Objects...
In this tutorial, we'll build a lightweight, reusable Vue.js component that displays the current time in any specified timezone. This component will automatically update every second and handle timezone conversions seamlessly. Prerequisites Basic kn...
Say you have a branch called hotfix. You originally started by branching off of develop, but this was accidental. You need to rebase this branch from develop to main to release it as a hot fix. Here's an easy-to-follow guide on how to do it: On your...
I am approaching a one-year work anniversary at an awesome, creative company that uses Ruby on Rails to do some incredible stuff. I will admit that I was hesitant at first -- I have heard many developers online and IRL comment on how the language and...
If you have a .scss file that stores your project's colors, you can easily reference those values in Vue. I recently ran into this issue when using a third-party library that required styling information to be set in data(). Overriding the default st...
Sometimes it's nice to document the little wins. Today, I learned this useful bit of code to parse a string into an array of words, while removing punctuation. text.replace(/\p{P}/gu, "").split(" ")) To break this down: text: the string to parse .re...
Here are five tricks I reach for when making music with Sonic Pi. 1. :sync to a metronome Keep your live loops in sync by creating a metronome: live_loop :click do sleep 1 end Use :sync to keep all your loops together with the :click: live_loop :...