kevin f.

#2025 Retrospective 2025 was my first full year as a married man, and I've come to appreciate the "settled down" life.

#Deno LSP in Sublime Text 4 Using Deno with Sublime Text 4 can be surprisingly tricky.

#A Tour of BeanCMS BeanCMS is a minimalist content management system.

#2024 Retrospective I have never done a retrospective, but I've been inspired by a peer at work to start doing a recap of accomplishments, changes, and wishlist items for the future.

#React Patterns in Umai Last year, I forked hyperapp to create the single-page application library I've always wanted -- umai. umai is heavily influenced by Mithril.js, which has unfortunately been in stasis for a few years now.

#Modern bundling with esbuild These days, you can get a pretty robust build setup for a modern browser app using just esbuild.

#A minimal RSS Feed Reader TL;DR: Visit kevinfiol.com/reader for my new daily RSS reader, updated hourly.

#Mithril.js + esbuild + JSX EDIT 7/18/2022: esbuild has since added support for string literals as JSX fragments, meaning much of what I wrote below is now unnecessary.

#Binding Mouse Button + Scroll Wheel to System Volume Control (on Windows or Ubuntu Linux) #Some Context About six years ago, I purchased a ROCCAT Savu gaming mouse to serve as my daily driver.

#Getting rid of the Credential Helper Selector on Git for Windows If you've ever been tormented by the following pop-up when trying to push or pull from an HTTPS Git origin: There may be a way out of your misery.

#Making your numeric keypad work on a Xubuntu 20.04 VM (VirtualBox) I fought with this for a good 2 hours before I finally got it working.

#Hosting Your Invidious Instance on a VPS Update 2022: This post is likely outdated.

#Books A collection of (free) web books, guides, and references by category that I've found over the years.

#I'm on Netlify First of all, happy birthday to my big bro!

#Hard Symlinks on Windows Posting this here to remind me. mklink /H link.exe C:\tool\bin\original.exe

#Simple State Management in Mithril.js Mithril.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework that has become a staple in my development stack after I discovered it two years ago.

#Brew Candy Review For my birthday, a very dear friend of mine sent me these Brew Candies.

#Validating Checksum on Windows This is a common command that I constantly seem to forget and have to look up over and over again.

#Git Cheatsheet This is a collection of git commands that I use frequently.

#Bullet Pools with Timers in HaxeFlixel One of the more useful features of the flixel library is the inclusion of the FlxTypedGroup class, which makes it easier to organize, update, and render multiple instances of an FlxBasic object.