Pete's Points

So as you have probably learnt and been frustrated by, JSON does not officially support comments.

Here's a snapshot of podcasts I'm checking out these days.

I commonly groan as a new product, service, protocol, or format is launched with one of my trigger words in the name.

Article of the week right here: Being an effective ally to woman and non-binary people.

For any of you command line code searching nerds out there, just wanted to point out the newest addition to a long line of command line filesystem search utilities.

I recently endeavored to use an analytics database called pipelindb to build a leaderboard type feature for a client.

I just had the pleasure of being a guest on the JavaScript Air podcast/screencast.

Just a quick post to point out some fantastic web applications to help you craft regular expressions in your text processing adventures.

My work setup requires a non-administrator account for normal login.

Just a quick "today I learned" that if you pass a number < 1 as the delay argument to setTimeout node.js will attempt to run your callback at that time even if it's less than 1ms in the future. const pretty = require('pretty-hrtime') setTimeout(() => {…

Using lambdas with Bluebird.map A situation came up this week where a coworker had stumbled upon some really terse code.

Big news in node.js land!

My current work involves many microservice (ish) node.js projects.

I just listened to The Changelog Episode 201 on SQLite with Richard Hipp.

Ever have a node process you expect to complete and exit just hang there?

It is possible to write solid javascript code almost entirely without using try/catch.

I've recently tried a few tools to help me keep the dependencies of my node/npm projects up to date.

There's some drama in the expressjs world today and I just wanted to express my thanks to all the contributors and supporters.

Introducing Quick Thoughts Thinking about ways to share my tech thoughts and engage with the Internet, I've been feeling frustrated by twitter's tweet length limit and ensuing conversation and clarification struggles.

Part One: Bow to Your Sensei These tips are the dojo ground rules you must learn before even the most basic command line work can get done.

So the Chase mobile banking app does not work properly on my new Google Nexus 5X phone.

I've open-sourced my mongodb/couchdb data integrity analysis tool called white glove.

So after having a Google Nexus 5 smartphone for the last 2+ years, when I saw that Project Fi had the potential to give me better coverage and a higher data limit for lower cost than T-Mobile, I decided to go for it.

In my consulting work, I encounter a pretty high quantity and diversity of codebases as client projects flow in and out.

The world of javascript code linters is a fertile breeding ground for vociferous debate over unimportant details.

Just a quick tip from some code I encountered today.

I was just reading some articles and comment threads debating the issue of git merge verses git rebase.

Here's my talk for the node.js Boulder meetup group about 12-Factor apps in node.js.

This post will describe my current setup for development on OS X.

So I was recently scheduled to do an AirPair pair programming session to help someone understand the various javascript functions available for asynchronous programming.

So I wrote an article on using the Chrome Developer tools debugger in the browser and node.js.

So when I started dealing with 1099-MISCs for tax season this year in January, I found myself struggling to get my data in a single place and compute a few simple sums for expenses, income, etc.

I released an open source node.js package called wallah.

I'm back in consulting mode these days, so I went and spruced up the web site a bit.

I'll be holding open office hours all day this Tuesday January 28th at the Scrib coworking space on Broadway near Spruce (basement level in office building where Unseen Bean is).

So after about two years of preferring CoffeeScript for my application code, I'm switching back to JavaScript.

So after a few months of Chinese holiday delays, my ErgoDox DIY keyboard kit has finally arrived.

Here's a few quick links that I found really helpful setting up an nginx web site to use a TLS certificate.

Try my flickr date fixer app!

TechCrunch has this article on AirPair today with a nice quote about me.

Here's a post about my recent experience with the new AirPair service connecting entrepreneurs with technology experts.

So I've just been one of the earliest progragrammers to get involved with AirPair.

You are working on two npm modules that are both actively being developed: my_app: some application, which depends on my_lib my_lib: a shared library There are 2 modes you'll need inside my_app: 1) using a published release of my_lib and 2) using a local…

Here is the full text of a recruiter email I received today.

I have written a little bookmarklet that will allow you to filter your OKCupid matches by a smaller geographic region.

So I use one of the famous Herman Miller Aeron chairs in my home office.

Updated: 2016-04-14 So let's talk about managing runtimes and interpreters for projects and applications.

If you like CoffeeScript, you should write applications in CoffeeScript.

So I've taken a new full-time position as a Web Developer at Social Communications Company.

So I flew out to San Francisco last week for the Node Summit conference.