September 08, 2024
My father passed away suddently in April of 2021 almost to the day of his 76th birthday. An otherwise healthy man, he was sitting in the back yard reading and journaling as he often did when began to feel unwell. Returning to the house, he sat down in the living...
May 16, 2024
Since the birth of ChatGPT, we’ve been fascinated by this new idea of “Prompt Engineering”. Much has been written on this subject with multiple Prompt Engineering tutorial sites springing up and countless videos on the subject. I’m guilty of making them myself. The term “engineering” implies (at least to me)...
May 12, 2022
All of us have, at some point, stood in front of a mirror looking into our own soul and asked the question that every JavaScript developer is destined to ask before they die - “How do you run Express and React in the same project”? This week I revisited my...
October 29, 2021
One of the first things you are gonna realize after you get started with Codespaces, is that you desperately want your own custom environment setup that you enjoy locally to somehow magically be in Codespaces as well. You can do that using a “dotfiles” repo, and in this post, we’re...
August 05, 2021
Cosmos DB automactially adds a timestamp field called “_ts”. everytime a document is created or updated. And it looks like this… { "_ts": 1628083065 } That number is described by this blog post as an “epoch value in seconds (not milliseconds) since an item was last modified.” The number of...