The blog of dlaa.me

If you've been sent a link to this post, it's probably because you submitted a pull request for an open source project I maintain and those changes appear to violate one or more guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.md.

If you're a member of a club, organization, committee, etc. with regularly-scheduled events, you may want those events to automatically show up on your calendar.

Last year, the GitHub blog outlined efforts to secure the Node.js package repository by Introducing npm package provenance.

A few days ago, I posted a response to a question I get asked about open-source project management.

I maintain a few open source projects and get asked some of the same questions from time to time.

It's "Connect season" again at Microsoft and I thought it might be useful to address something managers see pretty regularly: reluctance by their direct reports to fill out the required "paperwork".

As someone who likes to make backups of all my data, storing things "in the cloud" is a little concerning because I have no idea how well that data is backed up.

The New York Times Crossword app includes a daily puzzle called "Spelling Bee".

I stumbled across a programming challenge while looking for info on UglifyJS.

From time to time, discussions of a markdownlint rule come up where the popularity of one of the rules is questioned.

About 5 years ago, Igor Shubovych and I discussed the idea of writing a CLI for markdownlint.

In October of 2017, an issue was opened in the markdownlint repository on GitHub asking for the ability to automatically fix rule violations.

I wrote and shared MouseButtonClicker almost 12 years ago.

Since the beginning of the year, I've been doing all my OSS project development on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS (née Raspbian).

I happened across another coding puzzle recently that caught my interest.

A few days ago, Brent Simmons published a thoughtful blog post about one aspect of programming interviews.

A few months ago, I dashed out a JavaScript function to efficiently generate a random (version 4) UUID per RFC 4122.

I've been a happy user of the nodeunit test harness for a long time, but it was deprecated a few years ago.

One way I learn about new technologies is by using them.

Almost 5 years ago, I moved my blog (and website) from a hosted environment to a Node.js implementation of my own creation.