Author: Jason

Years ago I was conversing with a friend in the field— a UX developer who worked at large Ruby consulting firm. It was the early teens, that is, 2010s, and…

So your Rails application with a MySQL database was humming along and all of a sudden it hit this error: Mysql2::Error: Incorrect string value: '\xC5\x99\xC3\xA1k What does that mean? Upon…

Since the global quarantine working-from-home, or remote work, seems to be everything anyone can talk about.  About 15 years ago when I started my career, software engineers were a rare,…

I sit here as the World Health Organization declared last night a global pandemic due to COVID-19, and all everyone can seem to think or talk about is how scary…

The most essential Node packages to set up your React app today. (This article was written in the context of React versions 16.9, 16.10, and 16.11 in late 2019/early 2020)…

A photograph on the backdrop of coronavirus panick throughout the city. Angus Grieve-Smith (@grvsmth) treated us to a display of how to audio interfaces using native web controls, appropriately titled…

React’s Virtual DOM arguably revolutionized web development. In short: React will keep a copy of the DOM in its own memory space. When you make updates, for example, several updates…

Thomas Bery told us about his project to build jambuds.club, a social listening platform he has been working on as passion project. Fil Zembowicz, who says he runs a company…

If you own an Apple Airport Express Base station model number A1088 (sold 2004-2008), it will no longer update with Apple Airport Utility 5.7. If you have a later version…