What does ‘Pin screen’ mean? The idea is that I can select a portion of the screen, then that image will stay in place as I work on other things. The image can also be easily dragged around, made partially transparent, or zoomed in/out. Since stumbli...
Problem The application I’m currently working on requires some local config changes in order to run. The values in source control aren’t suitable for local running, but there is no infrastructure configured for injecting local secrets from outside so...
Sometimes I want to copy a network request which I've made in Google Chrome, so that I can edit or save it in Postman. Happily, this is easy to do by following these steps: Right click on a network request in your chrome dev tools Network tab. In t...
Two ways I use unit tests while fixing bugs
Adding references and explanations to commit messages to help other developers understand your reasoning
With git, it is possible to commit several times in one branch, then squash those commits together when merging into another branch. I most often use this workflow for experimental work. I'll have a feature branch which is what I will create a pull r...
