• VSCode deleting my code

    VSCode has been automatically deleting unreachable code for me. Seems like that’d be nice, but it really isn’t most of the time. I often want to deliberately make code unreachable while in the middle of development so that I can test a specific branch. When I go to do that and VS Code deletes half…

  • Typescript in Node and the Client

    Hey! Another one for the debug journal. We’re adding some back-end endpoints using Express.js to our Typescript/React front-end. So I threw together a server.ts file and tried to run it with ts-node. But nope: Yeah, imports. We’re not yet in the future where require is gone and everything just works. But that’s alright, someone from…

  • On creating a development build of the Expo client

    I finally reached the point in development where it was time to add custom native code to a project and try out Expo’s development builds feature. I followed a YouTube video and the official Expo docs to make a build for my project, but was confused when the build finished and there was no “install”…

  • Doing less, well

    Not to be confused with doing less well. This is a short post about software that does just what it’s supposed to. I have a lot of items in Things 3. Over the years, I’ve been frustrated by its lack of one feature or another and played with alternatives. But I keep coming back to…

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