Longer-form notes on software, aviation, the farm, and the garage. Newest first.
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Why this site exists
Mostly so I can find things later. Also it's been a while since I had a personal site that wasn't a resume.
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Why my training flights aren't here
About a hundred hours of student-pilot time happened on paper, not on an iPad. I'd recommend the same to anyone learning to fly.
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I now own a Swedish car from a dead manufacturer
A 1989 Saab 900 Turbo, bought sight unseen from a hangar in Kansas. First Saab, first joint car purchase with my wife, first car I owned with no dedicated parking spot.
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Between a rock and a hard place
Picking between React Native and Flutter for a new hybrid app. Spoiler: lamb Bobby went with Flutter.
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Frontend testing
A high-level overview of frontend testing and a story about why I started caring. Unit, integration, end-to-end, and what happens when you skip them and ship a 1,500-line refactor.
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Scalable Hexo blog with S3 and Cloudfront
Deploying a static site behind Cloudfront in front of an S3 bucket. Probably over-engineered for a personal blog but at least scaling is no longer a thing I need to think about.