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Yesterday I was targeted in a fairly convincing phishing attack disguised as the Washington State toll payment system known as Good To Go. Luckily I realized it was a scam before p…

This website was my dad’s second bible when I was a kid. He went down the rabbit hole and ended up building a massive steel spud gun that had a 10 foot copper barrel. That thing co…

A charge from something I bought today says March 1st.

My wife’s company had an issue with this today. A couple hours before I read this she mentioned it to me and I just assumed human error was the cause. Then I read this and it click…

I just released my latest Open Source project, Env Magic. It offers a better way to responsibly access Environment Variables in Node.js applications. I am very open to feedback to …

Over the weekend I integrated GPT with the Node.js REPL and the results are pretty compelling. Using this to build simple a proof of concept feels almost magical. Give it a try and…

Working in a large team to integrate WebHooks from 3rd parties can be challenging and cumbersome. You need a proxy or a port forward so the WebHooks can reach your machine on a loc…

Same here. Also having trouble publishing to S3 via CLI and API.

He has some interesting points. I can't say I agree with his opinion of where the "real value" of a service comes from. No doubt a service would be nothing without it's users, but …

This man is a hero.