Anecdotes, advice, tips, tricks, and random commentary…

Mar 27, 2021

Being a Thoughtfully Invested Developer

This is good. I wrote something similar in a comment on a post by John Resig some years ago. I admit to being guilty of wanting folks to have “passion” when they work for me. I was on that train before OSS contribution got as big as it is now (before GitHub…

Ambrose Little

Mar 23, 2020

Reusing JavaScript RegExp Instance Fails Test and Exec When It Shouldn’t

If you have a JavaScript regular expression instance (doesn’t matter how you construct it) that you want to re-use so that you don’t have to recreate it for every use, beware, particularly if you use the…

Ambrose Little

Mar 5, 2020

Parallels Shared Network Not Working on VM

Here’s a new one.. I changed my CPU/Memory config for a Parallels VM on my Mac today, and when I started back up, it said it had no network. It was working before I reduced the CPUs and RAM I allocate it…

Change What localhost Resolves to in Windows for Testing IE/Edge on Parallels or VirtualBox VM

Not long ago I started at a new company, and the first project I worked on was configured to run (and has config that expects to be) on http://localhost:8888. So far so…

The Dystopian World of Metrics Gone Wild

Metrics can be useful, but rarely are when it comes to…

Ambrose Little

Nov 15, 2017

Debugging Facebook’s Jest for React in Visual Studio Code

If you’re like me, you have seriously lost some hair trying to get Jest debugging to work (in VS Code or otherwise). I mean, console.log is great and all, but it really kinda sucks, especially when you could be using this awesome…

Ambrose Little

Oct 18, 2017

Taking Responsibility for Yourself

Or, Why It’s Still Not Okay to Be An Asshole Even In Difficult Circumstances