Stephen Charles Weiss articles - 86 total
AWS IAM In 30 Seconds
Preamble: I am exploring different areas of AWS and am finding the jargon overwhelming. To help myse...
Configuring The AWS CLI
Prerequisites Before we can configure the AWS CLI, we need to gather a few pieces of infor...
Memoization: A Primer
Preamble I’ve been spending more time with them lately as a way to remind myself of some o...
Global Themes, Variants, And Modes With Styled-Components
If I were to list my strengths, web design wouldn’t top the list. None the less, I like learning abou...
Another Angle To Understand Global State With React: Next.js
Recently, I was playing around with Next.js (simply referred to as Next from here on) to see how a fr...
Git Commit Archeology: Digging In With Grep And Pickaxe
In his talk “A Branch In Time” (which I wrote about previously), Tekin Süleyman discussed how an engi...
Building an XKCD Daily Digest
I love Randall Munroe’s XKCD, but going to his site every day is potentially problematic because it’s...
Node Version Management... Automatically
NVM, the Node Version Manager, is an invaluable tool when working on multiple node projects. Instead...
Locate Files Quickly On Your Computer
I was looking to find all instances of Postgres the other day in order to check the version. A web se...
Marty Cagan on Rewrites, Headroom, And 20%-Time
In 2007, Marty Cagan wrote a blog called “Engineering Wants to Rewrite!”. It’s a good example of how...
GraphQL Fragments: Reuse and Variables
After thinking more about Lee Byron’s talk and some of the uses for fragments1, I still had some ques...
Fixing My Embargo: Setting up a Cron Job
I wrote previously about setting up a simple embargo on my Gatsby site in the past. Even when I first...
Updating A Homebrew Cask
I recently started using FSNotes, an open source notes manager for MacOS and iOS. It’s been amazing...
Collaboration, Local Development, (Secret) Environment Variables, and NPM
At Remine, we have a shared UI library, repaint. Recently, I had the opportunity to upgrade our icon...
Shell Scripts: How To Run Them
I am constantly striving to improve my understanding and comfort interacting with my terminal. I reme...
Postgres Tuples Only
If you’re just learning how to use Postgres from the terminal (as I am), sometimes you click the wron...
Converting Synchronous Code to Asynchronous
I often find myself looking up patterns for converting synchronous code into async variants in Javasc...
Polymorphic Presentations With Styled-Components
Let’s say we’re building a simple web form with a twist: we want the submit to only appear if all of...
NPM - Cannot read property "match" of undefined
When trying to run an npm command, you can’t install the packages, you may get the error: stephen...
UseReducer With Typescript
When does it make sense to use a reducer vs a simple state value with React’s Hooks? There’s no hard-...
Typescript’s Omit: Pick’s Mirror
I’ve written in the past about the benefits of Pick in writing better interfaces with Typescript. To...
Gatsby & A (Simple) Publishing Embargo
Imagine you have a website, like this one, that aims to publish regularly. You’re not a big publicati...
Named Anchors & Markdown
When writing longer files in Markdown, I find it useful to create links within the document to help r...
Gitlab Description Templates
We use templates to help write descriptive tickets or MRs on various projects at work.1 Then I starte...
Supporting Submit On Enter
When asking users for their input, it’s often a pleasant user experience to allow them to submit the...
Swapping Array Elements In Place, Destructuring, and Automatic Semicolon Insertion
About a year ago, I learned about bitwise operators and using them to swap elements of a list in plac...
Masking Inputs And More Ref Fun
In learning about Auto-Complete In HTML Forms, I discovered that the type of an <input> makes c...
Validating Social Security Numbers
I continue to be enamored with the power of regular expressions — a feeling that only grows the more...
Auto-Complete In HTML Forms
Starting around 2015, browsers started treating the attribute autocomplete on <input> fields di...
Web-Safe Fonts and Font Fallbacks
Today, I had a colleague mention that the font we are using is “web-safe” in response to why it was s...