Lately I’ve been following this series on dev.to on writing your own OS from the ground up - it makes a nice change of pace from the web stuff I’ve been doing, from very near the top
Paul Walker
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Too Many Headers
Also known as "things I've learned today"... I've been using Insomnia the last couple of days to test a web API. Insomnia's a great client - it's got lots of features to make life easier. You can set arbitrary headers
Vue and PWA = awesome
I just had to take a minute to say - Vue’s automatic PWA support is amazing. Enable it with the Vue CLI and it Just Works. Okay, you have to supply your own icons and stuff, but that's pretty
X doesn't exist
When Linux keeps reporting that a binary doesn't exist, when it clearly does? That's annoying. One possible reason is below - this is the one that bit me a few days ago. If you don't know what bits and bytes
GraphQL - first steps
I was following Flavio Copes' tutorial on creating a basic GraphQL server in Express the other day. The tutorial was good, but I realised at the end that it didn't give you an example of a query to actually see
Microphone not working in Windows
Just sharing this for anyone else who Googled/DuckDuckGo'ed and didn't have any luck. Short versiontl;dr - if you've already done the "sound settings", "set default", update drivers etc. dance, check the "privacy" settings. In there is "allow access
Parameter handling for Node.js logging with Winston
Making Winston log statements act like console.log()
Easy certificates for Localstack
I found myself having to generate certificates for a Localstack instance, several times (because I forgot the syntax and they got overwritten); eventually I gave up and wrote this shell script to do it. The script uses the excellent mkcert,