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I'll be using AI on this website—to help me learn and experiment with using LLMs to build things outside of work. Mostly, this will be to add features and to maintain the blog. I may use AI to help me brainstorm post ideas, help me edit my…

Assumptions! Let's get on the same page. This guide assumes you already have a prettier config and eslint config set up. This will be useful if you want to figure out how to make prettier and eslint Just Work™ in VS Code on save. If you're…

When it comes to home decor, being stuck inside our own spaces during a global pandemic has mostly driven each of us one of two ways: either wanting to eliminate visual noise around them OR amping up how their personality is reflected in…

If you've been here before, you know I'm a frontend developer! If not, welcome to my blog! Like any dev, it's hard to resist that well-known itch to re-do my personal website. So here we are. I've given my website a facelift for two…

In July 2020 I found myself as part of the many people affected by COVID-19 related layoffs. Before that, I was writing anything from Elm to Ruby to Elixir at NoRedInk. And before that I was working with JavaScript and React for three years…

Dear JavaScript, We’ve barely spoken in the past year but I still think about you. You were my first self-taught language and it built me a career. JavaScript, you taught me to let go some of my perfectionism because it’s so easy to just…

For elm-conf 2019, I created a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon inspired game for the Marvel universe. I found a Marvel GraphQL endpoint and created 6 degrees of Squirrel Girl. You can find a pdf of my slides here. Enjoy!