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...
July 31, 2021
One of the great advantages to Azure Static Web Apps should be the ability to easily integrate with other Azure services. I’ve been working on a sample blog project a la the old Ruby on Rails tutorial, and I wanted to add the ability to upload an image to a...