Some testing with Axios

Recently I’ve been working on integrating with a subscription/payment gateway. (It hasn’t been straightforward, but that’s a whole other post…) I wanted to be able to test my web-hook code without repeatedly triggering events from the gateway. I stored the incoming events in JSON format, which

Different Markdown Editors, And Why I Use Ulysses

I’ve tried various different editors for writing text - iA Writer, MarkdownPad, StackEdit, and of course Vim/Emacs. Here’s why I’ve settled on Ulysses for my editing.

How to make your Web Pages look Prettier with Alpine.js

I had a revelation the other day. In the beginning… I had this idea that to make your UI pretty and reactive you needed to be using Vue, Svelte, or some other web framework. Otherwise the page just sat there until you clicked a button, then reloaded. Silly, I now

Hapi: using pre-route functions for fun and profit

I started to think - Express has middleware, I wonder what Hapi has? There’s bound to be something so I can ...

7 tools I use every day - Home Edition

Sharing some of the less common tools ones I use.

Checking if a user owns a domain

The technique we’re using is the one used by Google, Microsoft and others to verify that you've got some authority over a domain.

7 Tools I Use Every Day at Work

Silver Searcher (ag for short) is a fantastically fast searcher, much faster than grep. It comes with ...

How I made my tests faster

Today I’ve been reminded of the importance of measuring first when debugging, rather than making assumptions.

Using templates and validation in Hapi

In this post we’ll add template rendering (with Vision) and input validation (with Joi) into our application from the previous set of posts.

Hapi - using routes from external files

[Last time we left it], the server only had a single route and was all in one file. That’s fine to start with but it’s not exactly scalable. Let’s add some routes from external files.