Featured Blog Posts
How to Sync Obsidian Across All Your Devices (Including Free Methods)
A personal knowledge management tool like Obsidian only works well if you can access it from wherever you are. With Obsidian you have a few choices.
How to Add Search to Your Static Site Generator (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Nikola, etc.)
Add full text search to your static site without using a third-party platform or any type of service. Stop paying for search.
How I Finally Ditched Evernote for Joplin
The step by step process I used to migrate from Evernote to Joplin on two laptops, one phone, and a tablet.
JavaScript Reduce - A Complete Guide to the Only JS Array Function You Really Need
There are many JavaScript functions that you can use to manipulate arrays, but the JavaScript reduce method can do all their jobs.
Never Run Out of Freelance Work - An Exhaustive List of Writing Job Lists
Where to find freelance writing jobs online
How to Store JSON in PostgreSQL
Often the data for an application won’t fit completely into either a relational or NoSQL world. PostgreSQL gives you options.
How I Spent a Month Building a Cryptocurrency Trading Platform
And I made a million dollars...not.
How I Made $4000 in a Single Month Freelance Writing on the Side
Lessons from My First Three Years of Freelance/Content Writing
Recent Blog Posts
Jules AI - The (Currently) Free Coding Assistant That Can't Follow Directions But Gets Shit Done
Jules is currently free, so I figured it was worth a try. Of course, I had to find out what I could break.
Creating an Obsidian Plugin with Claude AI
I wrote the original script in Python. I had Claude perfect it, then convert it to an Obsidian plugin.
Building an Electron App from Scratch with Claude Code
In my last two posts on "vibe coding" I used Claude Desktop with MCP servers. Then I found out about Claude Code and now have a much better process.
Vibe Coding With Claude Desktop and MCP Part 2 - Switching to Scrapy
In my last post, I had a TypeScript-based scraper. In this one I switch to Scrapy.
Claude + MCP - 'Vibe Coding' Without Specialized IDEs Part 1
Cursor and Windsurf have gained popularity, but they can get expensive and they only do code. With Claude Desktop and MCPs you do the same thing and more.
Exporting Mac OSX Book Highlights into an Obsidian Vault or Markdown Files
Import your Mac Book highlights, notes, and metadata into Obsidian using the Python Scripter plugin or just run the script to export them in the same folder.
Leveraging React Server Components in RedwoodJS
The React team released React 18 in May 2023, which came with better support for React Server Components (RSCs). Less than a year later, RedwoodJS announced ...
Redux Toolkit adoption guide - Overview, examples, and alternatives
The UI generated by a React, Angular, Vue, or React Native app is a function of its state. For many frontend developers, Redux Toolkit is the perfect tool fo...
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