Desantis LLM Covered By Politico 🔗
My post about the weird LLM bot from the DeSantis campaign got a link from a Politico story today. It did reveal a little more info that I thought wa [...]
Alan Johnson
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Mocking ESM Without Loaders 🔗
I’ve been using the new node:test based testing framework more and more, and recently hit a tricky issue. I often mock dependencies for a file to keep [...]
Writing CSS With JavaScript 🔗
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a big fan of CSS. It does what it does really well, and you can’t beat the backward compatibility of web standards. Sometimes, [...]
The DeSantis Campaign Texted Me with a Large Language Model 🔗
Last night I got a text from the DeSantis campaign. Since I live in South Carolina and Republican primary season is right around the corner this is no [...]
Minimalist PostgreSQL Migrations 🔗
There are a ton of database migration tools out there, and they all have a similar set of features. A lot of times the decision on what migration tool [...]
Automate Github Actions Node Version 🔗
I use GitHub Actions for all my CI, and one annoying thing I hit early on was having to keep my GitHub Actions Node version in sync with the Node vers [...]
An Experiment With Dynamic Loading 🔗
I’ve been thinking about how to hot reload within server code to improve my development experience a lot lately. One thing that doesn’t appeal to me m [...]
Stop All Docker Compose Related Containers 🔗
I jump around between projects very frequently, and often those projects use Docker Compose. When moving around I typically go to start Docker Compose [...]
A Couple of Github Cli Aliases 🔗
One thing I love about GitHub CLI is that it’s easy to define aliases. You can run gh alias set ... to define a new alias and add all sorts of useful [...]
Bug Pattern: Ignoring the Default Case 🔗
I’m going to be writing up bug patterns as I see them, as a bit of a personal learning project. When I create bugs, what caused me to create them? Thi [...]
Ava and React Testing Library 🔗
The other day I needed to test a React hook with Ava, which lead me to try to use React Testing Library, and it took me a few minutes to figure out th [...]
Run Current File With Babel Node and Vscode 🔗
A lot of times I’ll open up a scratch file and run it through babel-node to see how it works while spiking out an idea or testing something that’s jus [...]
VSCode Task for Jest 🔗
I’ve tried the VSCode Jest extension a few times and never had much success with it. That said, the promise of tests running automatically and failure [...]
Adding Scripts to Next.js 🔗
I needed to add a queue processing script to my Next.js app, and really wanted to use the Next.js compilation chain to build it so that I wouldn’t hav [...]