Where Did All the Tech Bloggers Go?

  August 30th 2024
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The other day I noticed I don’t follow any tech bloggers personally anymore. Some of that may be the rise of social media and aggregator sites filling the void but the bigger reason I think is that I haven’t been seeking out individuals to follow since around the time Coding Horror stopped blogging regularly. It’s a bit of a shame really since I think you can learn a lot by following individuals and seeing their own progression arc.
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Failing Upwards Again

  August 13th 2024
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My journey building BreezyTerm over 4 months and it's sudden demise
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Planned App-solescence

  February 27th 2024
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Today is both a good day and a bad day. Bad because I finally have to come to terms with the game I spent four years making is no longer available on the App Store or the Google Play Store which effectively means you can't run it anywhere anymore. The bittersweet part is that it's given me the excuse to open source the game as well as my previous game project Solaria Tactics.
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Tradeoffs in Testing

  May 17th 2023
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I’m finally getting around to putting down in words the testing philosophy I’ve developed over the years. Some of it might rock the boat a bit, other parts may be obvious to some folks, but what I’d like you most to take away is a reflection on your own testing philosophy and the tradeoffs your making. There’s no free lunch.
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Testing Next.JS with Cypress and Mock Service Worker

  November 8th 2022
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If you’re running a Next.js app and want to test it with Cypress you probably noticed a problem when it came time to test a server side rendered page. There’s no built in way to mock out requests made in getServerSideProps. When I ran into this and searched around for solutions I found this article that has a good explination of the problem (and diagrams), but I wasn’t satisfied with any of the solutions.
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What it Takes to Make a Game by Yourself

  September 15th 2022
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Macrocosm is a mobile game that takes you from atom to galactic empire across seven interconnected stages where making progress in one stage gives you a boost in the next! This post is a deep dive into the (nearly) four years of free time I spent making it.
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What Language am I Writing Again?

  March 23rd 2022
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Have you ever had that brainfart moment when you’re writing code and forget what syntax you’re supposed to be using? An example is helpful:
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How Hard is your Email to Say?

  August 1st 2020
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You’re at the doctors office, talking to an acquaintance, or ordering something on the phone and they ask the question: What’s your email? Depending on your name, age, and your life choices this can be a breeze or the dreaded question. How long does it take before you have to break out the phonetic alphabet? How many times do you have to repeat it?
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