Monorepos are brilliant in the right use cases, but often not without a cause-questioning level of setup complication. In the JavaScript ecosystem, Yarn Workspaces provides a mature tool for managing dependencies near-seamlessly, however this is not pairable with a React Native app by default. Last year I undertook a migration…

Getting started with fish, the friendly interactive shell — So far in my time using Unix systems I have stuck with Bash as my preferred shell environment. This is for various reasons, but mostly for its ubiquity. …

A few months ago I authored a small Sublime Text plugin called Sublime tmux, providing a set of commands to open windows within tmux sessions directly from the editor. Even though it seemed mostly finished upon release, I ended up introducing several small things which unveiled a non-trivial number of…

UUIDs are awesome — they provide a non-sequential, comprehensively unique identifier that can be generated separately from the source database. However, if you need to include one in a URL they can appear somewhat inelegant. 2b8b9396-0cdf-4b9c-a03d-b25e1d93601b Recently, I was migrating a PHP application and database from auto increment to UUID…