I’ve been motivated to move some of my side projects and blogs off of WordPress. It’s a great platform but I don’t like to see hundreds of attempts to hack my sites in my logs. So far, none have succeeded, but I resent having to block IPs from bots to […]
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COVID drove the UC Berkeley Coding Boot Camp online in early 2020. Sadly, it seems as though there are no plans to resume in-person classes. I say “Sadly” because I really enjoyed the in-person experience. It’s SO MUCH EASIER to teach real people than little black rectangles on Zoom. You […]
Looks like somebody broke something! Somewhere between Node v18 and Webpack 5, this little error started appearing: ‘digital envelope routines::initialization error’ Fortunately, I found a pretty simple workaround: In your package.json file, add this prefix to the scripts that break: export NODE_OPTIONS=–openssl-legacy-provider For example, instead of just start-storybook -p 6006, […]
Web site visitors tend to be very impatient (Fifty three percent of visits are likely to be abandoned if the pages take longer than 3 seconds to load). You can imagine now frustrating they become when they click on an element and nothing appears to happen, which occurs frequently in […]
Me and my team were excited to see our post published yesterday on the public AWS blog.
Learn more about Remix, the latest React SSR/SSG framework.
My younger daughter, Gemma, mentioned during lockdown last year that she wanted to learn to play the guitar. That inspired me to get my old bass guitar out of storage and relearn how to play. You can see my progress here.
Substitute instructing at universities
I got to substitute for most of the last month for UCLA’s Coding Boot Camp. This cohort presented their final group projects and graduated on 3 April 2021. Congratulations to all for completing an extremely intensive curriculum!
Remote substitute teaching a UX/UI boot camp at the University of Minnesota