Quickly Find the Element That Is Causing Horizontal Scrolling
A fast way to find the elements that are causing horizontal scrolling on a page.
Welcome to my blog. I write about things that interest me, mostly about web development, productivity, and being a life-long learner. I've written 20 posts so far with a total of 14,841 views.
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Building a Reverse Proxy with Cloudflare Workers
Building a reverse proxy with Cloudflare Workers is super easy. I use a worker to bypass CORS restrictions when using html2image.
Sending Slack Messages with Images using Go
The Slack Go SDK isn't officially supported or documented. Here's how I figured out how to send Slack messages with images.
Forming habits by taking advantage of the consistency and commitment biases
What if you check off the habit before you've done it? I think it'll lead you to forming habits better.
Notes on Computer Science at the University of California Riverside
My personal notes on my experience as a computer science undergraduate at UC Riverside.
Enabling brotli compression in Go and Chi
Enabling brotli compression is an easy performance win. Enabling it in Go and Chi isn't well documented. This will show you how to enable it in your app.
How to create animated product updates
Learn how to spice up your product images by using animated media instead of static screenshots.
Hiding Microsoft Teams status icons
To promote more async-work behaviors, learn how to disable the status/precense icons in Microsoft Teams.
Debugging Checklist
The checklist I go through when I'm debugging a non-trivial problem.
Build a better email verification experience
You find a new application and you're excited to use it. You go through the account creation process but are blocked from using the application until you verify your email. This is a pain point in the user journey and can be the point where potential users stop using your application.
Fast track yourself through hackathons with APIs
You're at a hackathon, have a stellar team, and a really cool idea but only 24-36 hours to work on it. Your team could implement everything from scratch. If your goal is to learn then do that! If you want to test an idea then you should leverage APIs and focus on building what makes your idea unique.
Notes on working at NASA JPL vs. Microsoft
I wanted to sum up what it's like working at a research facility vs. a big tech company.
Checklist for Starting a New Job in a New State
Starting a new job is exciting. Moving to another state is exciting too but can also be daunting. I hope you find this checklist useful for when you find yourself in this situation.
Toggling Comments for Custom CodeMirror Modes
Adding the ability to toggle line/block comments for Custom-defined CodeMirror Modes isn't well documented.
How to make your bundle size smaller if you're using Lodash with Angular
If you're using Lodash in your Angular project, you may be importing everything Lodash ships with causing your bundle to be huge.
What it's like working at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
There's a ton of buzz around what it's like working at big tech companies but not much on gems such as NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Printing over ssh using lp
Learn how to use printers over ssh using the command line.