In my family, we played this game each General Conference where we all guessed which Apostles would speak in which General Conference sessions. It was a fun game, till my dad and brother figured out there was a predictable pattern. …

I asked ChatGPT to list examples in the bible where Jesus Christ demonstrated the charity attributes listed in Moroni 7:45. Here is how I wrote the prompt to ChatGPT: You are a bible scholar. You only report facts based on scripture from the King James Bible. As a…

There is a trend to make NPM modules ESM only. I’ve ran across several today, here are 6 just for example that I ran across today: tempy, pkg-dir, execa, node-fetch, node-data-uri-to-buffer, fetch-blob. Jest has some experimental support for loading ESM files. After reading their documentation, I figured what they were…

I’m a Dad at this startup people call “Parenting”. I’m CTO, my wife is CMO. Our startup culture has some of the things you’d expect, and some differences. Project management At Parenting, we found waterfall didn’t work. …

Here are 3 scenarios that I have found tricky to mock in Jest, and how I solved these problems. This article is about mocking, not about writing meaningful tests, so please don’t get caught up in the arbitrary test cases themselves. I will only make a few comments. Most of…

I think you will commit as deliberately as you code. If you believe in the careful following of clean code principles, your git patterns will reflect that. Here are 3 suggestions that I have to improve your git game: Use a GUI tool There are 2 big reasons why you should start using a…

I have believed, up until now, that the best way to learn a codebase/team processes/etc is to either A) learn it yourself through study or B) have someone verbally explain things to you. Written documentation has not been high on my list. I think I’ve been wrong. It occurred to…

How to find out what JavaScript ran Very frequently I’m trying to track down where code lives for a particular part of the web page. For some JavaScript features this is hard! How can you find out what JavaScript ran when something happened? Take for example an issue I was working on this morning. There was a…

Part 2 of 2 As you read in my last post, I built a very basic app. Along the way, I learned some tips, which I will explain in this article. I thought it would be very buggy on the web. …