Jerry Cheung

Ok Google, call Dad.

Dennis (AD6DM) told me about Meshtastic before Defcon 34, so I bought 2 little radios from the merch area to try it out.

My son has been building a game called MONKEY MADNESS GHOULS GHOSTS (beats the initial working name of "w/ dad copy") on Makecode Arcade.

I'm a big fan of spreadsheets for tracking stuff.

I built Audiobook Player to play local and iCloud audiobooks offline1 without any syncing2 or importing3.

After migrating from Debian Bookworm to Fedora Workstation 43, I getting ip addresses from my main network.

Gather around folks, here's what I learned and applied to jch.app from 37signal's "Modern CSS Patterns in Campfire", and the source code from Campfire and Fizzy.

Introduction Modules Minimal reset Customization with CSS variables Low specificity defaults Responsiveness Icons Conclusion Introduction A minimalist and lightweight starter kit that prioritizes semantic syntax, making every HTML element responsive and e…

What I’m learning and building Learning The Easy Way to Pick UI Colors.

I consolidated the form and typography styling I was using across jch.app and reduced the stylesheet bundle size 56% from 156kb to 68k.

When a new iOS lands, a handful of features are highlighted after the phone restarts.

Remember CSS Zen Garden?

Works with https://localhost:3000 or https://custom-hostname.local No insecure site warning because certificated is signed by a system trusted CA My goal was to test jch.app serviceworkers with different devices on the same network.

This was our first trip to Japan.

Fugit parses cron syntax and various time and date strings.

I shared my personal experiences with these personal finance topics with r/HENRYfinance.

After reading When and How to Use CSS Multi-Column Layout, I tried to use it for a masonry layout for the jch.app dashboard.

A tidy home is easier to clean.

The last time I was excited about hardware was 2008, when I spent hard earned Starbucks money to buy a 12" iBook G4.

During covid, I ran out of yeast.

Popover made it into baseline this year.

This morning I read "You might not need Websockets".

This was a fun one.

Bit of clean up for the blog.

Apple announced the new iPhone 16e today.

This article documents what I learned building a search page for stocks, ETFs, and other securities for https://jch.app.

https://jch.app now runs on a 2016 Macbook Pro with i7-6920HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz, 16GB DDR3 ram, and 2TB SSD.

When entering a money value, I like to see the number in my locale.

View transitions and Turbo https://jch.github.io/turbo-cancel-view-transition/.

View transitions became available in Safari 18.

tl;dr I spent a week to bring https://jch.app from 3s+ pages to ~150ms at the 99%tile Back again after my earlier rant about deployments this week.

Played with kamal for the first time today to deploy my app to a digital ocean droplet.

When interest rates were near 0% between 2008 through 2020, it made a negligible difference to pay bills from checkings or savings.

I had a test in jch.app which fetched data by date, and kept being off by one day.

tl;dr: Over thought it.

This speeds up tests and other rake tasks.

Rails 5 prevents bad things™ from happening to production databases: $ RAILS_ENV=production rake db:drop rake aborted!

Too many GitHub notifications in Gmail?

I have half hour weekly one on one meetings with my manager, Dave.

Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

Resque ships with a Sinatra app that can be mounted within your application for inspecting the status of your workers and jobs.

I love working with John Barnette, even if we don't work on the same stuff regularly.

String encodings is like air.

Rack is a simple and flexible library for building Ruby web applications and web frameworks.

It's been four years since I initially started this blog.

Rails views are typically rendered after some controller action is executed.

Twitter popularized the term "firehose API", to mean a realtime stream of data sent through a persistent connection.

Rails ActiveRecord models have a lifecycle that developers are allowed to hook into.

Faraday is a Ruby HTTP client which allow developers to customize its behavior with middlewares.

Republished from Opperator blog If I told you that a page took 130 requests to load 170 KB of data?