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I have a nifty Divoom Pixoo-64 on my desk that I got for Christmas a few years back.

For our team’s final 2025 meeting, I made a nice 2025 end-of-year report on our code entropy over the past year, with a focus on recognizing the contributions of our team.

At WorkTango, a pull request (PR) moves through a predictable lifecycle: Developer opens a PR against the main branch (master, in our case) CI runs (tests, linting, type checking) At least one approving review required (more for certain files via CODEOWNE…

As a Node/TypeScript engineer constantly trying to prune build tools and layers of complexity away, I find ECMAscript modules quite the difficulty hurdle.

I got to thinking about all of the ire I often see directed toward Test Driven Development (TDD).

There are a whole lot of NodeJS ORMs and/or DB management drivers to choose from: Objection Sequelize Knex Prisma Hasura Raw mode (PG2, node-mysql, SQLite, etc.)

I’ve done a number of AI-related projects.

I just realized after a few months that our GitHub code owners file wasn’t properly covering our migration files.

Abstractions are a wonderful software development tool, allowing one to take common business rules and consolidate them into a centralized location for improved testability and reuse.

Developers unfamiliar with robust type systems that support generics might see the following code as a huge “WTF…” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 export function filterUndefined<TArrayElementType>( theArray: readonly (TArrayElementType | und…

At WorkTango, we mandate 100% code coverage.

The Problem In our codebase over at KazooHR.com, we generate all of our code with @graphql-codegen.

We should respect process.

Sublime Text 3 is awesome.

Magento2 uses RequireJS to load its javascript.

This short tutorial assumes you have Magento2 installed and ready to go.

If you haven’t heard about CSS Grids yet, what are you doing?

This past week, I’ve been taking a crash-course in Magento 1.x.