• GitHub Projects “OR” in filter

    GitHub sure doesn’t make it obvious, but you can filter issues in the the new Projects with an “or” operator in between conditions by joining terms with a comma: In this screen shot I’m specifying that issues with the milestone “2023.23” OR “2023.24” should be shown by joining the term with a comma, like this…

  • 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”…

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