Luna.nvim
A minimal, near-black neovim colorscheme with just enough color to live by.
A. Fox Blog
Random thoughts and musings.
Latest posts
The Attention Tax
A case for taking your attention back from ads, notifications, and the devices designed to steal it.
claude-chat.nvim
A Neovim plugin for seamless integration with Claude Code CLI
Using My Website to Track my Strava Miles
I built a simple React component that keeps track of all the miles I've walked, run, and cycled throughout the current year. It pulls data from my Strava account and displays the total distance, providing a real-time snapshot of my athletic activities.
Jellybeans.nvim
My neovim theme heavily inspired by the original Jellybeans.
Working with Arrays in Bash
I learned more writing this post than I expected to.
Python Unveiled
Idioms, Standard Library Gems, and Snake Traps to Avoid
Hello, 2022
Or should I call you 2020, too?
jf - A JSON path finder written in Go
A CLI utility that searches for a value in JSON files and prints out paths that point to that value.
Preserving leading zeros when writing CSV files for Excel
How to write a CSV such that Excel doesn't drop leading zeros where they're needed. Postal codes are a great example of when those leading zeros contain valuable information.
Software Reliability
A quick post on defining what reliability means in terms of software development.
Make Git Forget About Files Previously Tracked
Useful for adding a gitignore file later into a project.
Refactoring: Parameter Objects
Introducing parameter objects into your code.
Compiling GO for Synology NAS
Compiling GO binaries for the synology platform.
I Created an Arc Reactor!
...And then my wife took it.
Building A Custom Music Box (Part 1)
My wife loves the movie Pan's Labyrinth. In that movie, there's a lullaby and she's mentioned to me several times that she has always wanted a music box that plays that lullaby.
Automating the Boring Search for an iPhone X
T-Mobile didn't let me pre-order the new iPhone. So I had to write a script to notify me when there was stock nearby.
How I Used Python and Boto3 to Modify CSV's in AWS S3
Using Python to write to CSV files stored in S3. Particularly to write CSV headers to queries unloaded from Redshift (before the header option).
Automating Christmas with Particle, Docker, and Siri
This was an incredibly fun project to do and gave me an excuse to not only put our Christmas tree up well before December, but to also keep it well into January. I'm not entirely sure how much this would cost if you had to buy each part separately.
Choices for Choices in Django CharFields
You have multiple choices when implementing a multiple choice field in Django.