Last month, Destiny and I attended the high power rifle match at Northwest Texas Field and Stream Association. This was the first match that Destiny and I had competed in at the club, and it was only the second time that we had ever competed. The first time that we competed being at the Rifle … Read more
I spent last week, July 8th-14th, at Camp Perry in Port Clinton, Ohio for the National Precision Pistol Championship. The Trip The trip was about a 17 hour drive to get from Wichita Falls, Tx to Port Clinton, Ohio. And with 4 people and all of our gear, you can imagine that the van we … Read more
On May 17th-19th, the Texas State Precision Pistol Championship was in Wichita Falls, TX at the Northwest Texas Field and Streams Association’s turning target range. This was my first state match that I attended and it was great to get to meet some really great shooters from Texas as well as surrounding states. Below are … Read more
I use Unison to sync code between my local machine and my dev servers. To sync between two servers, it requires that the same version of Unison be installed on both servers. Now, this isn’t usually a big deal, because once you get Unison set up, it’s set up. But, I usually get a bit … Read more
Recently, when I was trying to download a gif file from Giphy, I noticed that when I went directly to the file, https://media.giphy.com/media/14kdiJUblbWBXy/giphy.gif for example, that it was actually loading a web page instead of the gif file. Now, on this page, you could choose to alternative/right click on the image and then click “Save … Read more
I got the chance to go to the Hotter N Hell criteriums a week or so ago to take some pictures. The action is much faster than I’m used to working with, so I threw out a ton of photos that I took. 🙂 Here are a few that I liked.
I recently ran into an issue where JSON encoding some objects in my code wasn’t working properly. After experimenting, I realized that casting everything to an array before JSON encoding magically fixed things. Casting an object to an array is simple enough: But, what happens when an object or array contains references to other objects … Read more
At Automattic, we use SVN and Phabricator for much of our source control needs. One issue that I often run into is a warning about untracked files when creating a Phabricator differential: This warning’s purpose is to make sure that the differential being created has ALL of the changes so that a file isn’t forgotten … Read more
Over the past year, there have been a couple of times where I've needed to sort some large list of values, more than 100 million lines in one case. In each case, I was dealing with a data source where there was surely duplicate entries. For example, duplicate usernames, emails, or URLs. To address this, I … Read more
I remember the first time I saw a setTimeout( fn, 0 ) call in some React. Luckily there was a comment with the code, so I kind of had an idea of why that code was there. Even with the comment though, it was still confusing. Since then, I’ve read several articles about the event loop … Read more
Not too long ago, I took the kids up to the Wichita Mountains for a day trip. We got up close and personal with some bison and prairie dogs while there, and I got a few pictures of that.
