My "Habit Sync for @todoist.com" app is about to get a significant update, so here are some "behind the scenes" of what it took. - 9 major version upgrades of #ReactNative - Writing my own component library - Translating #Java to #Kotlin @github.com #ZeroToMergedContest

"It felt a bit like the opening of 'A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy' ..." #RailsWorld 2025

"The message was clearly that individuals, like you and me, have the power to build things to improve the world – we don’t have to wait for someone else" #RailsWorld 2025

@thehale/react-native-keep-awake is now in the #ReactNative Directory!

"Thank you for existing", "I'm 11 years old and ... your library made it possible" It's amazing how far a single kind gesture can go.

This thread reminds me of Excel's formula evaluator, which lifts the values of each expression into the current context. It's so helpful for the debugging to come to me, where I retain full context. Picture Source: stackoverflow.com/q/6470263/14...

"Error: Invalid file name. Only characters on the basic multilingual plane are supported." What do you think this error message means? I ran into it recently while #debugging a migration of several hundred thousand documents. Here's what I learned: (1/4)

It's officially #MaintainerMonth! To celebrate, I just published psas.dev which has README badges maintainers can use to communicate boundaries for their #opensource projects.

Explore an interactive report of who wrote each line of code in a #git repository! Git Authorship now supports .𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚊𝚙 and .𝚐𝚒𝚝-𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚎-𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚎-𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚜 files to provide even cleaner and more organized reports.

New type of post for me... New type of music for my friend @DHeusta... I had a blast recording the intense Latin chorus! If you've ever felt constrained by others' expectations, Against the Grain is for you! #AgainstTheGrainSong #DHeusta #BillboardTop100 <-- coming soon 😜

Forgetting the --𝚛𝚖 option when running throwaway #docker containers can clutter your computer. But there is a short #bash command to remove all those stopped containers docker rm $(docker ps -a | grep Exited | cut -d " " -f 1) How it works:

Have you heard of the 𝚐𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚠𝚎𝚋 command? It creates a live website to explore any #git repository on your computer. It's #GitHub from before there was GitHub. Here's how to set it up:

If the test suite crashes locally, it's hard to convince someone to write tests... Ran into exactly this recently. We have a major test suite which executes inside a Docker container to match our production environment, but those tests stopped booting on a coworker's laptop.

Solved a really involved bug today... Some of our B2B customers were unable to email invoices to their clients, delaying incoming payments.

Well, I'm officially a publisher on #NPM! Over the weekend I upgraded a #react-native app to the New Architecture, including a custom native module I wrote circa React Native 0.68 github.com/SpeedcuberOS...

Giving specific complements in code reviews is the one practice I’ve seen work everywhere: blog.bethcodes.com/for-delightf...

There's something beautiful about watching #playwright auto-click across a browser. Or maybe I'm simply grateful that I don't have to personally click thousands of buttons to export data from an old application that doesn't provide an API...

Try googling "code" XD The programming language I wrote a few years ago uses a `.code` extension XD github.com/thehale/code...

Just updated my open-source LaTeX resume template "Expressive Resume". Now with dedicated commands for promotions to a new \𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚎, an academic \𝚍𝚎𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚎, an \𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍 or accolade, and a personal \𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝. Spacing and formatting has also updated for better readability. github.com/thehale/expr...