This is a short but fun true story. Birocratic (pronounced like “bureaucracy”) was doing what a lot of other talented but obscure independent musicians were doing in February 2013: posting beat tracks on Soundcloud and largely toiling away in obscurity. While his funk-inspired musical output was high-quality, Birocratic (aka…

(Psst — if you’re busy and want a cheat-sheet see here: https://github.com/valgaze/redirection-fun/blob/master/cheatsheet.md) Put simply, “redirection” is a method to save output and errors to a file (or suppress them entirely) instead of their default behavior of displaying on the screen. This can be useful because it may sometimes be desirable…

You can thank the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for important emails like the following clogging up your inbox: The reason so many firms are blasting out emails asking for permission to store user data and frantically updating their terms of service is because they’re terrified of running afoul…

tl;dr: When you’re done, you’ll be able to pull down & run this image from your own private Docker registry: docker run -p 8000:8000 <accountid>.dkr.ecr.<region>.amazonaws.com/namegame Here’s our application running inside a container based off an image stored in AWS’s Elastic Container Registry: Why? Toy scenario: Imagine you’ve built an application and…

Gituation, (noun): A situation, oftentimes unpleasant or confusing, involving git commit histories This note works through several practical examples of techniques you can use to get yourself out of tricky git-uations. …

I recently encountered a visual bug where the style I was attempting to apply to an SVG element just wasn’t working. My first instinct when debugging a tricky styling issue is to fire up Chrome Dev Tools and attempt a sanity-test. I usually start by setting the misbehaving element to…

“[…] for she would rather light candles than curse the darkness” — Adlai Stevenson — In case you’re not already acquainted, meet Connie: Connie Rice is a lot of things, but one thing she is not is an armchair advocate. She’s an agitator…

UPDATE: The EU’s new data protection rules have gone into effect and the WHOIS system is possibly on the chopping block. Read more here: https://medium.com/@valgaze/friday-may-25th-how-europes-gdpr-might-finally-break-the-internet-s-broken-whois-system-8bb009a2161f — — — It could be because of clumsy fingers (or a crummy mobile site), but whatever the reason, if you left accurate personal information…

Not a joke, this really happened (Node 4.2+, Mac-only right now for sound): $ npm i -g beyonce && beyonce Further Reading: beyonce Beyonce singin &amp; dancing in your terminalwww.npmjs.com valgaze/beyonce npm i beyonce -g && beyonce #Song and dance show in your terminalgithub.com