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Jesse Shawl10 Oct 2023
Just enough Java for Crafting Interpreters I've been working my way through Robert Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters and had to learn some Java in order to run the Scanner class implemented in...
Jesse Shawl8 May 2023
Require esm imports See what I did there? I recently encountered a project that used require for including external modules, and when upgrading the dependency's major version, I was met with this...
Jesse Shawl8 Apr 2023
HTTP Authentication via SSH Demo Visit https://auths.sh/ and follow the command line instructions, or browse the source code, specifically: Background and motivation I've been working on...
Jesse Shawl20 Sept 2022
Dual Range Input I recently had a need for an <input type='range'> with start and end buttons, so I built one: I made a few API and design decisions that I wanted to think through here for the next...
Jesse Shawl4 Jan 2017
Cacheing API Calls I recently made a few upgrades to updog.co which have decreased the Time To First Byte dramatically. Before: After: Wait, What?! How?!
Jesse Shawl2 Jun 2015
[book] The Art of Unix Programming I just finished The Art of Unix Programming and I highly recommend it.
Jesse Shawl20 Dec 2014
Contributing to Ruby gems I recently came across a gem for handling user authentication with sinatra - sinatra simple authentication.
Jesse Shawl27 Oct 2014
Link Workflow I've recently removed the /finds-links url from my site, which was a jQuery plugin powered by pocket.
Jesse Shawl27 May 2014
Clean up pull requests with git merge --squash Sometimes, I will receive a pull request to one of my repositories that has commits that affect several files.
Jesse Shawl23 May 2014
Clean up Commits with git cherry-pick -n Sometimes I binge code for like 3+ hours and work on several unrelated things.
Jesse Shawl21 May 2014
Warning! push.default is not set Have you seen this before when running git push with no remote or branch name specified?
Jesse Shawl12 Dec 2013
Practical Applications of Pseudo Elements and Classes A note about browser support: There's some pretty crazy stuff going on in this post.
Jesse Shawl3 Dec 2013
When to Rebase I've come to appreciate that scary git command - git rebase. I've found two incredible uses for it: - Updating feature branches with progress made on master.
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