Getting Started with Podman

Taking a closer look at podman as a developer, is it worth switching to for heavy users of containers?

Rethinking Data: A Journey of Relationships

Most data can be separated into two categories: that which has a relationship to other data in the dataset and that which does not. For years, we've spent time organizing data into hierarchical, relational databases. While this is generally fine, being able to put that data into a

Linux Laptop Experiment PT: 2

About a month into my linux laptop experiment and its going pretty well, the major hurdles have been tackled and I am able to be productive with most of the apps im used too and decent battery life ~8 hours.

Linux Laptop Experiment PT: 1

is the linux laptop experience smooth enough for everyday use by dev's without too many headaches?

A Tour of Github Actions

A quick overview of github itself, its place in the general code management ecosystem and finally github actions themselves.

Drone.io: Cheap and Effective CI

Effective and cheap CI for public and private repos on a $5 a month vm

Python Dependency Management (pip/pipenv/poetry)

A fairly high level look at the state of the python packaging ecosystem and a showcase of two tools with different approaches of how to make your life easier.

Statistical Analysis in C#

A while back, I used to play a game called Eve Online. It's an interesting game, and I played it a lot. During my time playing Eve, I used to do quite a bit of market trading. In order to really take advantage of the ability to pull

Let's Build a Simple Statistics Class in ES6

I needed to build a simple statistics tool for analyzing some timing information across a small section of our application. I only needed this during debugging (as it won't be in production), and I did not really want to include a huge library just for a few small

Graph Theory and Javascript, Five Links to Check Out

This week, I plan on continuing my educational list of links. There is a push towards graph theory in this list, as I really do love it. Graph Theory and Recommendation Engines Why do I like this? I'm a huge fan of graph theory, and when I have

Five Links to Learn From

This week, I want everyone to learn a little bit. Actually, I want everyone to learn a lot. This week's links are geared mostly towards learning things. Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide Why do I like this? Don't let the title of this e-book

Eight Articles To Start Your Week

I had so many articles to choose from this week, that paring it down to even these eight links was nigh impossible. I started with 43 different links that all caught my fancy. These are the best of the best. I am even including an old article, because it'

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Five Links to Start Your July With a Bang!

Welcome to July! This week we are going to link a number of interesting things, from AngularJS directives to machine learning to accessbility and a ton in between. Let's start the second half of the year getting to know ES6 better, learning new algorithms to make our lives

The Final Five of June

The final week of June is a short work week for me. You are still going to get your five links, however, I couldn't find anything funny that I really liked, so no humour this week. I did write something humorous that you can check out, however. More

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The Five Stages of Agile Software Development

In our office yesterday, we were discussing our current epic. One of the engineers asked "Why is no one panicking?" One of our other engineers replied that "We've moved beyond panic to acceptance." At this point, we had a good laugh about the Five

So You Want to Build an App in ES6, Part Five

In the previous article, we built a controller, a service, and a directive in AngularJS. While that will get you started in developing a robust application, you cannot really build large-scale applications without testing. This article is going to go over unit testing using Karma and Jasmine. This article will

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Five More Links (and a Bonus to Boot)

This week, I've got a bonus link for you that I thought was just fun to have around Destructuring in ES6 Why do I like this? Destructuring in ES6 makes life in general better. It allows us to quickly map between variables and objects with little overhead. I

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Five Links You Should Totally Check Out

This week's links have a bunch of interesting content that I wanted to share. Design Patterns Simplified Why do I like this? Design patterns are hugely important in software development. Being able to understand the more complicated patterns allows you to write better, more maintainable code. It leads

So You Want to Build an App in ES6, Part Four

In the last article we talked about using concepts of fractal design to build our application architecture. This means separating your application into features instead of into models, views and controllers. This seems at odds with the MVC architecture as a whole, but the reality is that it really works

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This Day in Video Game History

I love big, historical things happening in the world of video games. On June 11, 1983, Capcom was founded. It's original intent was to manage the internal sales department of its parent company: Sambi Co., Ltd. Sambi Co., Ltd. was originally I.R.M. Corporation and Japan Capsule

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I Love JavaScript, but...

I really do love JavaScript. It's an incredible tool to build applications that people everywhere can use. However, there are tons of weird things that you can, but shouldn't, do with it. This little article is meant to showcase what is sometimes referred to as the

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So You Want to Build an App in ES6, Part Three

In the previous article in this series, we discussed building our baseline from a git repository and using gulp tasks to turn ES6 code into ES5 as well as perform our unit tests. In this article, our goal is going to be to write some simple ES6 and get it

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One Week In; Five Links to Go

This week's choices were tough. In my backlog I gained something like 30 links, and these are the five I ended up with. 7 Essential JavaScript Functions Why do I like this? David Walsh is full of great information, and he shares it all the time. This article

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So You Want to Build an App in ES6, Part Two

In the first article in this series, we discussed what ES6 was and some tools that we planned on using. Our goal with this article is to get started actually using the build tools. You are going to need a few things in order to actively participate: * A web server.