@martypenner
Code, creativity, and improv: navigating the unexpected.
Hey, I'm Marty! I help build great developer experiences, from documentation to dev tools. I have a lot of experience with modern monorepos and React. I built a VSCode extension (called "CSS to Go") in mostly Rust for autocompleting CSS classnames. I've worked on a task manager app (who hasn't these days?) that I'm aiming to be local-first, cloud-optional, and polished because it's fun.
I love reading, drumming, some writing, and figuring hard problems out. I've worked with a lot of tech over the 10+ years I've been a developer, and I love the inflection point we are at in the industry. The future is bright!
I am currently a Frontend Developer at Race Roster, based out of Ontario, Canada.
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Jan 29, 2024 · 2 min read · You know how sometimes, you can spend hours and hours debugging something, only to discover the fix is a few lines of code? That's what creating certificates in sst.dev was like. I kept forgetting that SST wraps AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), and t...
Join discussionOct 25, 2022 · 3 min read · Update: Tauri has good guidelines for working with homebrew and a clear set of prerequisites for linux. Not sure if I missed these before or they were added later, but those docs basically describe how to avoid the installation problems I ran into. ...
IImamuzzaki commentedSep 26, 2022 · 3 min read · TL;DR: Use Mopidy with Iris + Azuracast to live stream your music for cheap on fly.io. Here's the repo with my deployments. Feel free to fork and follow the instructions to have a self-hosted music and streaming service up and running quickly. In my...
Join discussionFeb 5, 2020 · 2 min read · At work, we previously used docker to give us a common node version by running every node and npm command through a wrapper script. This meant we wouldn't run into strange gotchas between different versions of node and npm. But it also created more p...
Join discussionMar 24, 2019 · 1 min read · At Race Roster, I've been experimenting with using SVGs to show real-time theme updates as a user changes the theme colours in their branding settings. A more traditional approach would require using a set of <div> and <span> elements with border or ...
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