One of my favorite small scripts I’ve written this year is my pr script, which allows the user to simply enter pr into their terminal of choice and open a pull request without having to specify anything else. Repo Home and Secrets if git remote -v | grep -q “bitbucket”; ( more… )
I set out recently to get more fluent in TypeScript, and after getting comfortable with syntax in browser-based interpreters, the next step was to get TypeScript running locally. As this is generally useful information, I figured I would write a blog post to share my approach. Global ts-node Install Assuming ( more… )
When I hear that friends or colleagues are visiting New York, I always recommend that they go check out a Broadway show. Musical theater has been a huge part of my life since I was a kid, and while I’ve only been to New York a handful of times, they ( more… )
I recently needed to build a Microsoft Teams bot to take simple commands and update a database. There are plenty of materials out there on this: tutorials and blog posts (like this one), an SDK, lots of docs from Microsoft, and yet I felt that all were either over-complicating the ( more… )
I wrote previously about coding the backend for Conway’s Game of Life with Python’s standard library. Unsatisfied with the relatively boring console output, I sought a GUI to give this simulation more visual appeal. We’ll be editing a copy of the same file we ended with in my last post. ( more… )
So this is kind of funny. For years, I’ve heard references to an algorithm for the Game of Life, and I always pictured this: I’ve never actually played this game, so I didn’t think about it too hard and figured it must be some weird case where an algorithm could ( more… )
I was recently developing a project with an S3 bucket. One of the steps of the development process was to add a security layer to the S3 bucket, namely: Add server-side encryption to the bucket, ensuring that data is encrypted at rest. Enforce SSL on all interactions with the bucket, ( more… )
I found myself in a position of needing to publish to WordPress programmatically recently, but despite using WordPress for years, I’d never delved into its API before now. There are a few outdated Python modules out there, but none worked out of the box for me, so I figured I’d ( more… )
As a public service for future travelers, here’s an incomplete list of latitudes and longitudes for about 165 neighborhoods in Tallahassee, Florida. This was annoying to collect, and if even one person is helped by posting it here, that would be cool. I’m open to additions and corrections; feel free ( more… )
I’m currently enrolled in an introductory Unix course at FSU. With the midterm approaching, the best way for me to cover the material is to write it down, and why shouldn’t I go ahead and publish those hard-written words? Of course I will do that! General Concepts on Unix Unix is a ( more… )