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commitlog - A recap It's been about 2 years since I wrote commitlog#b0f1b1d2bc4265cb72b70b3ae5b60f8e65f47b12 and it's gone through a few changes from when it was first written.

Linux and Installation Disks Due to a recent unknown mishap my macbook decided to go blank on it's LCD.

Turn the Bass up This post has nothing to do with music, I'm sorry.

Minimalism in workouts Not a topic I've talked about much on here but I do work out (sometimes) to make sure my body stays functional.

The Web Libraries Another rant?

Going bonkers over island architechture If for some reason, you stalk my github, you'll see the past few days have been just commits upon commits to a repo dealing with creating your own islands architechture setup using existing tools instead of using a…

Updates and Decisions January - 2023 Time as always seems to be moving pretty fast and one more month vanished into thin year.

On Node JS and REST API Frameworks I've talked about how I like both REST and GraphQL as for me both of them are just an interface to expose functionality.

Decisions and Updates December 2022 Happy New Year humans!

Re: On the current decentralisation movement This is like a reply or more like, my thoughts after reading the post from Manu https://manuelmoreale.com/on-the-current-decentralisation-movement I've been on the same train for a while but did end up creating…

Playing around with Crystal Lang I'm no professional "Programming Language Reviewer" but I think readers at this point understand that I jump around multiple languages just cause it's fun.

Decisions and Updates November 2022 Here's what has happened in the past month and a summary of why they happened.

NeoVIM Configuration Yeah, no one asked for this, Just a couple of steps to reproduce my minimal shell configuration and neovim configuration.

Lower Level Projects Running away from complex projects is something most of us do, this is mostly because of not knowing what you are supposed to do and it involves a lot of trial and error and if you just can't handle that then you just start searching…

Don't use UI libraries/frameworks for everything!

My Open Source Almost everything that I love is tied down with Tech, and honestly that sounds kinda boring but for me at least, it's not.

Modern React, is a mess.

Projects for Self For me coding has been both a hobby and a way to distract myself from other problems that I might have.

Plugins, Lua, Alvu Now, this was going to go into kb but would better serve as a proper post so let's get to it.

The lab folder I've probably already written about this somewhere though I don't think it was on the blog so we're adding it here now.

Docker Compose, Prisma and the M1 Pointers, Make sure you have links defined for the app service The connect_timeout is a necessary param for the connection string if you are on M1 Everything else is pretty much standard docker compose version: '3.9' ser…

Atomic Forms in React I've mostly worked with Formik for most of my react form validations and the one thing that always feels out of place is the re-initialization of state based on the initial values.

Creating a blog If you've been around, you know this very blog has been re-done about 4 times now.

Iterative GraphQL I wrote a post talking about actual pros and cons of using GraphQL in a post before GraphQL isn't that amazing This was primarily for people just walking around social media throwing it around like they did for typescript.

Writing fastlane scripts in Javascript 3 Posts back to back!?

An attempt to reduce the monorepo complexity Note: This involves ESM quite a bit so you might wanna read about ESM first and then get to this.

Notes on fixing react native 0.61.5 on a M1 mac Here's a few references based on things that broke while trying to make an old project on react native to work with my Macbook M1 Undefined / Unknown symbol : , expected ) This happens when babel is unable to

We're polishing TillWhen, finally.

Contextual Helpers are easier to write but ...

GraphQL isn't that amazing I really didn't think it would come to having to explain this but people think that GraphQL is the holy grail at this point and that REST isn't needed anymore.

Full Stack Development with GraphQL in a Digital Studio GraphQL is what people are building on, a lot right now.

Multithreading in Nim - Notes Well, this topic has made a few people leave Nim and a few people just couldn't find enough examples to help them with it so they gave up.

Setting up a remote Mac machine for Gitlab CI There's a 1000 posts on this topic online and not one of them explains that you need to modify the location of the launching plist for this runner to work on sudden restarts.

The ESM and CJS Problem Disclaimer: I understand the advantages of moving to ESM and support that people do so but, I'm not a fan of just moving everything to new tech while breaking tech that was already working.

Working with Twilio Coversations Complaining about docs has been a global rant for now but then not everyone has the time and man power to write documentation, I don't know why Twilio skipped on this but the only way to figure out working with Conversatio…

Testing - Tools, Methods, Mentality If you are in a dilemma of whether to write tests or not, I did cover a bit about that in a previous post As for what this post is going to cover, here's the overview The tools (the one's I normally use) The methods (wh…

Be Unproductive?

Working with Async Code in React Due to the nature of my work I end up having to work with a lot of libraries and there's a lot of POC and experimenting that goes on to help junior devs not cry their eyes out when working with code.

Workation There's supposed to be a devlog today but there's basically nothing that I did in the past 7 days that would count as enough content for it.

Typescript, VSCode, JSDoc - An overview on managing coding style and restricting developers Javascript and Typescript , the unneeded debate as to which is better and which should be used has been around for as long coffeescript existed and the debate shif…

Writing cleaner state in React and React Native Ever since hooks got introduced in React, it made it a lot more easier to handle composition in react components and also helped the developers of react handle the component context a lot better.

Writing cleaner state in React and React Native Ever since hooks got introduced in React, it made it a lot more easier to handle composition in react components and also helped the developers of react handle the component context a lot better.

Should you use Hasura?

Custom Roms and the need for a custom rom index You already know where the post will lead, it'll lead to some side project I ended up doing during the weekend.

Fixing .mjs imports with ESM libraries in Webpack 4 No long story for this one.

Embedding Files in your Go Lang binary We talked about how I built https://status.barelyhuman.dev and what I was doing to handle adding the html data into the final binary so that the hosting provider could render the html from a single binary.

Status, Vercel and How I built it.

Product Development and a Developer's Role - Part 2 Do read the first part before you continue to read this.

Product Development and a Developer's Role - Part 1 As a developer and a CS Student we are normally taught about the waterfall method during college and we just naturally grab the "Development => Maintenance" phase to be the part where the developer is go…

Tests vs No Tests Every developer has mixed feelings about writing tests, some think it's for the testers to do, some would like to avoid writing these at all costs and some would judge you if you didn't write any.