Vercel Preview Branch Weirdness
An accidental hosting environment dependency revealed an irritating bug in Vercel’s preview deployment logic.
Recent Posts
Karmic Rule One
Troubleshooting works just like the regular kind: you won’t hit your target if you don’t have one. – Karmic Rules for Writing Pretty Good Code
Unexpected Mutations
An unexpected (and probably unintended) function parameter mutation inside the web3.js library had me questioning my sanity for a couple of hours.
Karmic Rule Zero
Minimize external dependencies and try not to use shitty libraries. – Karmic Rules for Writing Pretty Good Code
Testing Redux in NextJS
If you’re testing ES6 code referencing Redux in a transpiled build environment, you can save yourself a lot of trouble by putting your tests into JSX files.
Why Intent Trumps Action
Intent matters more than even massive action, because in the long term it is more effective at actually getting the job done.
Installing GitHub Repo Template Updates
Your project depends on a GitHub repo template that has released a new version. How do you integrate the changes?
Hello (Again) World!
You spend years of perfectly good writing time building gilded prisons for your words. If only there were a simple, beautiful way to write PORTABLE words.