I was recently making minor code changes and noticed I broke the unit tests with my updates. I ran into the following error: What triggered the unit test failure left me stumped longer than I care to admit, so I figured I’d write up this quick blog post to ensure I never make the same…
Trijam #261 Game Jam Diary: One Wrong Move
We have big chess fans in the family so I’ve always wanted to incorporate a chess theme in a game jam. Trijam is a weekly game jam where the goal is to create a game within 3 hours of development time. Trijam’s 261st theme was a perfect fit with the theme: one wrong move. Try…
Using WSL on Corporate VPN
By Michael
Disclaimer: Be sure to get approval from Cyber/IT team before following this process. Developers on corporate networks may find that the typical instructions for installing WSL2 do not work. For example running wsl –install might give the following error: Even after enabling all of the required windows features. Many corporate networks will block the Windows…
Uncaught TypeError: util.inherits is not a function
By Ashley
I recently ran into an issue when I tried to import a reference to jsonwebtoken into a new Vue 3 project configured with Vite. I’ve observed others encountering the same error (although through different circumstances) and I figured I’d document what I did to resolve the problem for me in case it helps someone else…
Snow Globe Single DIV CSS Drawing with Animating Snowflakes | Tutorial
By Ashley
Learn how to draw a snow globe with a single div and CSS. In this blog post I will walk you through how I created a snow globe with animating snowflakes using one div and a bunch of CSS. With the holidays right around the corner, I wanted to create something festive. I went back…
CSS Magic with a Single Div
By Ashley
In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basic building blocks of single div drawing with CSS, putting them all together at the end to draw a lollipop. The goal of this blog post is to introduce you to the world of single div drawing. Hopefully by the time you reach the end of it, you will…
Southeastern Technical Conferences (2020 Edition)
By Ashley
I love attending tech conferences, and I highly encourage all devs to attend at least one conference in their career. I always leave a conference feeling refreshed about the craft, motivated to apply my new knowledge and feeling more aware of how to do or use things I had not considered before. I’m in North…
Counting Pixels in the Browser with the HTML5 Canvas and the ImageData object
By Ashley
Count pixels by color in the browser using JavaScript and the HTML 5 Canvas Element I recently wrote a small Python script that accepted an image file and returned the count of pixels per a unique color. The script worked great for my use case (making 8-bit pixel art), and it has saved me a…