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A list of software I find useful for programming on MacOS, circa 2018.

A detective story of debugging a Cloudfront 502 error

Using JSON Schema to validate pokemon documents in MongoDB.

Using a Proxy object to enforce making a deep copy of default values on read.

A detective story tracking down why d3.event was null in a throttled function.

A quick script to inline styles in SVGs

Python's context managers are a great feature.

High volume tables can run out of ids.

Ensuring merge migrations are unique in Django

How to set up pass, the open source password manager, with Alfred on OSX

When your decorators want to meddle with the function's arguments, things can get tricky.

Use selenium to check for unread Facebook messages and send a reply

Acquire and release postgres advisory locks from python with a decorator

Decorators look like magic when you first see them, but they don’t feel like something mere mortals could write.

Share your terminal with friends!

Disappointed by the lack of an official Facebook app for your Mac?

Event-triggered averages, also known as Peristimulus Time Histograms (PETHs) are a method of analysis commonly used in neuroscience, but also in the finance industry and others.

Professors teaching Concurrency classes are fond of saying that when there is a race condition in your code, anything can happen.

Everyone's happy to hear that a test will be curved, but what does that even mean?

Every December, undergrads across the country take the Putnam Exam, regarded as one of the toughest math competitions around.

You can be half muggle, quarter muggle, or even 13/16 muggle.

This LaTeX package alleviates the constant struggle in mathematical writing of finding synonyms for 'therefore'.

As part of the UNIX Systems class at WWU, each student makes a basic shell program, msh.

LaTeX is a markup language that's particularly useful for typesetting mathematics.