Blog Page #2

Here you'll find everything I've written for this site, all in one place, from newest to oldest. Some posts are deep dives, while others are just quick notes and fixes I wanted to remember. Feel free to dig in, and I hope you find something useful or interesting.

October 3, 2022
- Shareable TypeScript Configuration
  
  My personal notes on creating a reusable tsconfig for my TypeScript projects. The trick is to publish the base config files as a simple NPM package.
October 2, 2022
- ECMAScript and CommonJS Libraries
  
  A quick reference for building a single TypeScript library for both ESM and CJS. Here's the package.json exports and tsconfig setup I use.
September 28, 2022
- Article Schema Markup for Eleventy
  
  This is how I added the JSON-LD Article Schema to my Eleventy blog. My notes on installing and configuring the eleventy-plugin-schema.
September 26, 2022
- Shareable Prettier Configuration
  
  A quick reference for creating a shareable Prettier config. Just a simple NPM package with an index.js that exports all my formatting options.
September 17, 2022
- Coverage Report
  
  Codecov felt slow for my monorepo, so I built my own coverage report site. This is my log on using a simple Node script to collect Jest's HTML reports.
June 22, 2022
- Fix Cannot Redefine Property 'x' TypeError in Jest
  
  Ran into the "Cannot redefine property" TypeError in Jest. This is my log on fixing it with jest.mock or a local barrel file for spyOn.
April 13, 2022
- Same address deployments with Foundry
  
  My notes on how to deploy a contract to the same address on multiple chains. The trick is just to use a fresh wallet with the same nonce (0) everywhere.
April 12, 2022
- Vanity address on macOS M1
  
  My personal reference for building the profanity tool from source on an M1 Mac. A security note, it's broken, so please don't use it for wallets.
March 19, 2022
- dapptools on macOS M1
  
  My notes on installing the dapptools on M1 Mac. The process involved running under Rosetta and using a specific version of Nix.
April 26, 2020
- Hot Reload in AWS Lambda
  
  My sam local start-api wasn't hot reloading. This is my quick note on using -t template.yaml to fix it and --skip-pull-image to make it faster.
April 2, 2018
- Instrument Sanic Application
  
  Setting up a monitoring stack for Sanic. This is my quick reference for hooking up a Prometheus Counter via middleware to track all incoming requests.
January 8, 2017
- Hand Signals Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network
  
  My experiment with building a hand signal recognizer using a CNN. This is my log on collecting data with a webcam and implementing a LeNet-5-style model in TensorFlow.
December 26, 2016
- Whitespace Tokenizer in Rust
  
  My note-to-self for writing a UTF-8 tokenizer in Rust. The trick is reading byte-by-byte and only checking for whitespace on single-byte chars.
June 5, 2016
- printf in C
  
  My personal log on a classic C vulnerability. This post is a quick cheat sheet on using printf safely to avoid format string exploits.
May 6, 2016
- Anonymous Function in Scala
  
  A note on a Scala concept that confused me at first. This is my quick breakdown of anonymous functions and how they're used in Apache Spark.
April 12, 2016
- Work School Life Balance
  
  My experiment with a simple time management strategy. Just logging my thoughts on how planning and breaking down tasks is helping me find some balance.
April 9, 2016
- Scala on Debian
  
  I started digging into Scala and needed to set up my environment. This is my quick cheat sheet for downloading and installing Scala 2.12 on Debian via the command line.
February 8, 2016
- Debug Trait in Rust
  
  A quick reference for making structs printable in Rust. It shows how to use the Debug trait with the derive macro and how to implement it manually.
January 22, 2016
- Supreme C
  
  I've been thinking about what C would be like with a Go-style API. This is my early concept for "Supreme C", a library for high-level, safe I/O.
January 19, 2016
- Consistent Build in C
  
  I wanted a consistent C build, but -std=c99 was hiding POSIX functions. Here’s a quick look at using _POSIX_C_SOURCE to solve that.