Oembed, Webmentions, Twitter, Threads & Bluesky
Many months back now, I excitedly wrote up an article about custom twitter embeds.
10/23/24, 9:41 PM
Software Development
How Do I Name a Unit Test?
{ describe('methodName()', () => { }) }) All my tests for this method go in the method name describe block.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
8/6/24, 9:00 AM
Software Development
How to change the return value of a Spy in Jasmine?
{ myValueSpy.and.returnValue({ prop1: 'x', prop2: 'a' }); // rest of the test ) }); Tada! That's what I needed.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
7/16/24, 10:00 AM
Software Development
React Tic Tac To Expansion: Display Move Location
This video expands the React Tic Tac Toe Tutorial to display the coordinates of the move in the history list. View the Video Check out the source code from this sample in my GitHub
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
7/9/24, 9:00 AM
Software Development
React Tic Tac To Expansion: Winning Square Highlights
This video expands the React Tic Tac Toe Tutorial to highlight the winning squares, or tell the user that the game ends in a draw. View the Video Check out the source code from this sample in my GitHub
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
7/2/24, 9:00 AM
Software Development
React Tic Tac To Expansion: Toggle History Direction
This video expands the React Tic Tac Toe Tutorial to dynamically create the game board. View the Video Check out the source code from this sample in my GitHub
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
6/25/24, 10:00 AM
Software Development
React Tic Tac To Expansion: How do I create a Board Loop?
This video expands the React Tic Tac Toe Tutorial to dynamically create the game board. View the Video Check out the source code from this sample in my GitHub
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
6/18/24, 3:53 PM
Software Development
React Tic Tac To Expansion: You are at X Move
This video expands the React Tic Tac Toe Tutorial to make the current move a text display instead of a button. View the Video Check out the source code from this sample in my GitHub
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
6/11/24, 9:00 AM
Software Development
How do tell GIT not to change the line endings in a File?
A bit earlier I wrote about creating a Docker Image and it trying to interpret the line endings as a command to run inside the docker image.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
6/4/24, 9:00 AM
Software Development
How do I fix Failed to solve: Canceled: context canceled When Building a Docker Image?
I am setting up a new work computer, and ran into an issue building a Docker Image.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
5/28/24, 9:00 AM
Software Development
$'\r': command not found when building a Docker Image
I ran into this problem while building a Docker Image: $'\r': command not found As part of this docker image, a script was run, and the error came from running that script.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
5/7/24, 9:00 AM
Software Development
mikevdv.dev - What I'd do differently
I write a large number of articles which I never end up publishing for various reasons.
5/6/24, 6:05 PM
Software Development
4/23/24, 9:00 AM
Software Development
Predicting solar eclipses with Python
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
From: Erik Bernhardsson
4/7/24, 12:00 AM
Software Development
Promise.withResolvers in JavaScript
Let me know if you've heard this one before.
3/30/24, 12:17 PM
Software Development
Daily Group Code Reviews - Increasing Efficiency
While many junior Devs struggle with code reviews, both when performing and receiving them, I've found that even the more senior team members sometimes struggle with comments left on their code.
3/17/24, 5:17 PM
Software Development
3/15/24, 10:44 AM
Software Development
Domain Expiration - A Reminder
Yesterday around mid-day, mikevdv.
3/6/24, 5:34 PM
Software Development
Apple going to intentionally kneecap the web: PWAs
Remember the days that Apple used to pitch itself as David in the David and Goliath stories? Well, over the years, the tables have turned as safari has become like the IE of Old. Apple, in a short number of days, are going to intentionally kill off PWA support.
3/1/24, 8:39 AM
Software Development
My Books are Updated for Angular 17
Angular 17 is out; and the Learn With Series is updated.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
2/1/24, 9:00 AM
Software Development
Simple sabotage for software
CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”:
From: Erik Bernhardsson
12/13/23, 12:00 AM
Software Development
How do I Access a Service Provider in a Route Guard in Angular?
{ return true; }; That was new to me, and I'm not sure if this was added to Angular 16 or 17.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
12/5/23, 9:00 AM
Software Development
How do I run Angular Unit Tests in IntelliJ?
I've been working on a new Angular 16 project, and tried to run tests through IntelliJ only to discover that IntelliJ couldn't find the config file.
From: Jeffry Houser's Blog
11/15/23, 9:00 AM
Software Development
CORS & Traefik in TrueNas Scale with TrueCharts
I've been building a homelab in my free time over recent months (alongside improving my smart home and building the next itteration of this blog).
11/9/23, 8:18 AM
Software Development
MDN Ads are actually really nice
Embedded advertisements get a bad rap.
7/19/23, 11:53 AM
Software Development