Easy React Forms with FormData
Storing each form input value in React state can be tedious, but it doesn't have to be that way.
5 min read, 919 words
Writing on software development.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, and a few on music and drumming.
Build Your Own Comment Section
How to build your own threaded comment section using Supabase and Postgres functions
15 min read, 2876 words
Backend FAQs
A [small] collection of frequently asked questions related to backend development
5 min read, 912 words
Server-Side Rendering with React
Server rendering in React is often seen as mystical and esoteric, let's shed some light on it!
10 min read, 1949 words
Setting Up A Modern Webdev Toolchain
Modern JavaScript tooling can be a bit of a maze. Babel, Webpack, eslint, TypeScript, PostCSS... Maybe you've heard about them, maybe you don't know why you'd use them, maybe you just want to know how to get started with them. Read on!
20 min read, 3817 words
An Attempt At Explaining Category Theory
This is mostly a personal notebook of what I think I have learned. I make no guarantee about the accuracy of anything said here, I would appreciate any corrections or feedback on anything [I've ever] posted.
9 min read, 1637 words
Functional Programming: functional composition
Creating functions like Lego blocks
4 min read, 793 words
Functional Programming: currying and partial application
An explanation of currying and partial application using JavaScript
4 min read, 782 words
How I Made My Own Static-Site Generator
I had a fun time making my own static-site generator for a blog, and I thought this could serve as a practical introduction to Functional Reactive Programming (FRP).
10 min read, 1989 words
Creating a REST API in node.js
Getting started with making web APIs can be confusing, even overwhelming at first. I'd like to share my process for creating APIs in Node.js.
16 min read, 3187 words
Parsing Bash Config Files
Many times a script is written that needs extra/persistent configuration from the user. In most languages this is no big deal, you just import your json/yaml/toml parser and you're good to go. The common thing to do for many bash scripts that require configuration is to ask the user to put another actual bash script containing variable declarations in the file:
3 min read, 545 words
Bash Scripting
10 min read, 1841 words
Learning Vim
12 min read, 2208 words
Functional Programming: a small introduction
It seems there's some confusion on why you might use functional programming methods like map/reduce/filter, and so I thought I'd write something to try and explain why I think they're useful and interesting.
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Beginning Drums
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Killing the Display Manager
Display managers like LightDM and SDDM come standard with many Linux distros, and I personally find them useless. I'd like to share with you how to get rid of them and gain a bit of control over how X is launched, and take back a few precious megabytes of RAM.
6 min read, 1191 words
On permutations of rudiments
This post is still a work in progress, so bare with me please. If you spot any errors or have something you want to add, feel free to leave a comment below.
5 min read, 854 words
Vim beginner's customization guide
This article is for those who've been using Vim for a little while and have started to grasp modal editing and the powers of Vim, and now want to start customizing it. If you're completely new to Vim, I have another post describing some of the basic of learning Vim [here](/computers/vim-guide) but there are dozens of them on the internet, and Vim ships with `vimtutor` as well which is a great place to start.
25 min read, 4931 words
Fuzzy searching for MPD in Bash
I recently came across fzf, which is an interactive filter for your shell, and wanted to make a script that filtered through and played my music library
5 min read, 914 words
Backporting packages in Debian
Are you anxious for a new version of a particular package, and don't want to wait for someone else to submit it to backports? After a few hours of reading docs and testing this out myself I feel like I've gotten a good grasp on this, so I'd like to share what's been working for me.
4 min read, 663 words