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When Can I Use Abbreviated Variable Names?

Most advice says to avoid abbreviations in variable names, but are there situations where they're acceptable?

August 21, 2023

~10 min read

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Mastering React Component Callbacks with Currying

How to use functional currying to make React callbacks more clear and maintainable

May 5, 2023

~8 min read

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Welcome to my New Blog!

How my new website is built using the latest NextJS app directory, and other bleeding-edge features

May 1, 2023

~14 min read

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The Dangers of Optional Chaining Overuse

Optional chaining is one of my favorite javascript operators (if such a thing exists), but it's best to avoid using it when not necessary.

March 16, 2023

~10 min read

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Filling in the Connected Fitness Gaps with Apple Shortcuts

How I use Apple Shortcuts to complement my current fitness and health tracking tools

January 31, 2023

~7 min read

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Review Your Own Pull Requests

Leave the coding mindset and enter the reviewing mindset to improve the quality of code you submit

January 20, 2023

~4 min read

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Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays, and thanks for reading for another year! See you all in 2023!

December 23, 2022

~2 min read

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Using AI to Generate DALL·E 2 Prompts

Using ChatGPT to generate prompts that can be fed into DALL·E 2 to generate images

December 5, 2022

~4 min read

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ChatGPT Writes Poems About the Internet

I asked ChatGPT to write poems about various concepts in networking.

December 2, 2022

~5 min read

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Statically Generating Twitter Embeds and Sharing for a Performance Boost

Embedded Tweets and share buttons were bogging down my blog, so I wrote custom UI that is statically generated using the Twitter API to speed things back up

October 11, 2022

~10 min read

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My Connected Fitness Tools (2022 Update)

After a year of using my connected fitness tools, a second look at what's new and what I changed!

October 10, 2022

~14 min read

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Why Write a Newsletter?

I recently started a newsletter - it's a bit of extra work every month, but here's why I think it's valuable.

October 4, 2022

~4 min read

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