Steve Dignam

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• Sharing Links To track, or not to trackAug 12, 2023
• Writing Java like TypeScript Embracing varJul 9, 2023
• The Many Problems with Celery With some possible fixesMay 20, 2023
• Abandoning logging for structlog Structured logs for greater goodApr 9, 2023
• Dark Mode for Emails Auto conversion and media queriesMar 2, 2023
• The Case for JavaScript Without Semicolons Less is more!Feb 12, 2023
• Scraping Whisk's GRPC-web API Binary is annoyingFeb 2, 2023
• Preloading with JS Apps Injecting some JSON and metadata into the pageJan 12, 2023
• Backwards Compatible API Changes What is safe to merge?Jan 8, 2023
• Free Tier Hosted Postgres Comparision Free Trials and Actual Free TiersDec 13, 2022
• Blurhash or Downscaled and Blurred Quality vs storageDec 6, 2022
• Zero to Connection String it's a race!Nov 19, 2022
• cursor: pointer and user-select: none and their usageNov 19, 2022
• Cutting Peak CPU in Half By Caching SSL Context A little py-spy goes a long wayNov 9, 2022
• Undoing changes to a file in a GitHub Pull Request A little `git diff`, a little `git apply`Nov 8, 2022
• The Limits of Browser Storage Depends on the browserOct 31, 2022
• Sync to Async Python for Speed 10x perf gains by using asyncio in PythonOct 15, 2022
• Gradually Enabling noImplicitAny TypeScript ESlint to the rescueOct 1, 2022
• HTTP Timeouts Setting an overall timeout in various languagesSep 4, 2022
• Scroll Restoration with Client Side Routing Instagram's vs Flickr's approachJul 15, 2022
• Inaccurate Theme Flashing Some examplesJun 11, 2022
• Reachability and Apple Music UIKit has forsaken usMay 14, 2022
• Problems Debugging iOS Safari from Mac ERROR: invalid input syntax for type inetApr 10, 2022
• A Decent Database Service Lots of features requiredMar 19, 2022
• Problems with Flow TypeScript FTWMar 1, 2022
• Prefix Your Env Vars Namespaces are goodJan 29, 2022
• Hosting Apps on a Subdomain? A SurveyJan 14, 2022
• CSP and CSS-in-JS No runtime CSS-in-JS for you!Jan 13, 2022
• Trimming Text -webkit-line-clamp enhancedJan 1, 2022
• Async Data Loading in React Sum Types vs Bools vs SuspenseNov 20, 2021
• input[type="number"] Unexpected change eventsSep 9, 2021
• Avoiding Implicit Conversions in TypeScript With the help of ESLintAug 11, 2021
• Beware of Array Spread hitting the limits of the call stackJul 24, 2021
• Better Review Apps aka Preview Deployments, Deploy Previews, etc.May 28, 2021
• What Node.js' HTTP server gets wrong Or, how CPS isn't user friendlyApr 7, 2021
• Are you sure you want `?` and not `| undefined` in your type? Optional vs possibly `undefined` in TypeScriptMar 16, 2021
• Debugging a Chrome Performance Bug A lesson in measuringFeb 4, 2021
• Handling Signals in Heroku Insufficent configJan 17, 2021
• Typed SQL Client & Query DSL in Python Pushing Python's static typing to the limitsJan 4, 2021
• Static Typing an ORM in Python Tips for adding static types to an ORMNov 23, 2020
• Type Stubs for Native Python Modules Packing and unpacking wheelsNov 12, 2020
• Towards a Better Heroku Requirements for a PaaSOct 25, 2020
• Leaving the ORM Behind Composing raw SQL queries in PythonOct 4, 2020
• Heroku Deployment Deception Deploys take a whileSep 18, 2020
• Relative and Absolute Imports in Python & TypeScript Beware of ambiguitySep 7, 2020
• ./.venv/bin/activate isn't magic You don't need itSep 7, 2020
• Pesky Globals, Even with TypeScript And how to avoid themJul 24, 2020
• Dynamic To Static Languages Type checkers for dynamic languagesJul 8, 2020
• Faster CI Builds in a Monorepo A little bash goes a long wayMay 3, 2020
• Stylex in TypeScript Another approach to CSS-in-JSApr 18, 2020
• Avoiding Another TypeScript Compiler Bug with ESLint ESLint FTWApr 15, 2020
• User Defined Ordering Made Easy ints, floats, decimals, rationals, and stringsMar 31, 2020
• Preventing Unindexed Queries in Django An exploration in runtime checkingFeb 15, 2020
• Preventing N+1 Queries in Django Django ORM requiredFeb 9, 2020
• Debugging Performance Issues with Py-Spy With included SVGsFeb 8, 2020
• Newtypes in TypeScript Nominal typing in a structural worldDec 11, 2019
• Distributing a Python Project with Pex and Poetry Executable zip filesNov 17, 2019
• Soundness with Mypy, Flow, and Typescript A brief comparisionNov 9, 2019
• Arbitrary Precision Decimal Fields with Django ORM Using Postgres features from DjangoOct 24, 2019
• Avoiding TypeScript Compiler Bugs via ESlint Rules Initialize your declarationsOct 14, 2019
• Exhaustiveness Checking and Breaking API Changes Adding enum variants is breakingSep 15, 2019
• Python's Async Stack Traces Much nicer than JSAug 30, 2019
• Replacing YAML With Dhall Static typing your configJul 31, 2019
• Unclogging an Asyncio Event Loop A little cProfile goes a long wayJun 13, 2019
• Python's Pathlib in Swift Cute operator overloadingMay 13, 2019
• Deterministic Bundles With Webpack Beware of random in SassFeb 10, 2019
• Tslint Rule Lessions in writing a new ruleJan 18, 2019
• Sum Types for Remote Data in TypeScript Use the compiler Luke!Dec 27, 2018
• Creating A Flake8 Lint Pretty straight forwardDec 16, 2018
• Detecting Recursion In Python Fun with inspectDec 13, 2018
• Autonomous Transactions in Postgres By using another connectionOct 12, 2018
• Are Parser Generators Common? No. Handwritten vs generated language parsersSep 18, 2018
• React, Redux, and TypeScript walk into a – Type Error Comparing Redux libraries for side-effectSep 2, 2018
• Handling Strings A comparision of various languagesAug 8, 2018