SuperDB Website Build Review
hugo
My work designing and developing the superdb.org website is finished. The first commit was on October 4th, 2024 and the final commit was on February 5th, 2025.
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useStateObject: A Simple, Convenient API Around useState
react
I am loving this API for working with React state. It’s a very light wrapper around useState. I call it useStateObject.
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The 3 Types of CSS Utility Classes
css html
A 9.0 earthquake shook my front-end world when I discovered “layout primitives” at every-layout.dev. Then an aftershock rolled through when I learned about fluid sizing and spacing tokens from utopia.
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Ship That Code • Publish That Post
programming writing
Two articles I read this week have inspired the heck out of me. The first was by Jared Turner of thoughtbot with the punchy title “WIP is waste”.
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How to Debug NodeJS with Breakpoints in VSCode
javascript
I made a quick screen recording using the VSCode debugger to break on a line of code in my NodeJS electron process.
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The One Thing Missing in Every Budget App: Spending Commitments
money
The one thing missing in every budgeting application is the “Spending Commitment”.
Definition: “A thing I am already committed to paying for”
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Fix for Kamal Deploy Assets Not Updating
ci rails kamal
Does this sound like you?
You are using Sprockets to pre-compile assets for production. You are using Kamal to deploy. You have asset bridging enabled in your deploy.
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How to Set Output Values in Github Actions
ci github
This is the syntax for setting an output parameter in a Github Actions step.
echo "{name}={value}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" Here’s an example of using this syntax in a workflow step.
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Responsive Sizing for React Arborist Tree Component
javascript react react-arborist
Many people ask me about how to dynamically set the width and height of the Tree component based on its parent using react-arborist.
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Cache the Result of a JavaScript Getter Method
javascript
My first programming language was Ruby. Well, it was actually Microsoft Excel, then VBA, then C# for a university class, then Ruby.
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