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• Creating App Features Using AI Assistant Structured Output

  How I use the structured response option in the OpenAI Assistant API to create app features, including a sample app, and some gotchas to look out for.

  Jan 20, 2025

• Rewriting My Personal Site in Astro

  I've been wanting to do a rewrite of my personal site for a while now. This is a summary of why I replaced NextJS with Astro, some of the main features that attracted me, a few unexpected delights, and some minor downsides I uncovered.

  Dec 27, 2024

• How to save anonymous content to a database

  For a recent app I worked on, I wanted to allow anonymous users to create notes locally, and then be able to save it to a database on login. In this post, I walk through how I implemented this."

  Sep 2, 2023

• Some of My Favorite Shell Commands

  A few custom commands I use almost daily.

  Sep 4, 2022

• How to Keep Your Footer at the Bottom of the Screen (or Below)

  Prevent the annoying "floating" footers in the middle of your screen.

  Sep 1, 2022

• A Process for Writing E2E Tests

  Part of the E2E testing series. A lot of tutorials focus on configuring and running E2E tests. Here we focus on how to approach writing the actual tests.

  Jun 30, 2022 • E2E Testing Series

• Ensuring Your E2E Tests Run On Every Code Push

  To help prevent regression, we want to make sure we run our full test suite every time we push code to a repo.

  Jun 30, 2022 • E2E Testing Series

• How to set up a local E2E test development environment

  Ensure E2E tests get written by running both your dev environment and your E2E test runner with a single command. Also, learn about writing resilient tests using test ids.

  Jun 30, 2022 • E2E Testing Series

• E2E Testing Series

  A detailed walk-through of how to write E2E tests and why it matters.

  Jun 30, 2022