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Build For Yourself

Feb 4 · 13 min read · Like most developers, I have a million ideas but only so much time to build them. I keep a document in Notion that lists these ideas — and it grows way faster than I could ever implement. That’s doubly true for me thanks to my ADHD: I’ll start five p...

Fixing Catastrophic Failures, "Failed to translate", and 0x80071772 errors in WSL

Feb 15, 2024 · 3 min read · One day I turned on my computer, logged in, and was met with a Command Prompt window asking me to update WSL. I pressed the key to start the update, and then a few seconds later saw the dreaded "Catastrophic failure" message. The update was being dri...

Adding Correlation IDs to Easily Track Down Errors - Spring Boot 3 Edition

May 9, 2023 · 7 min read · You may have read my previous post, Adding Correlation IDs to Easily Track Down Errors, which used Spring Cloud Sleuth and Spring Boot 2.X to add correlation IDs to our logs and error responses. In this post, I'll go over how we can do the same in Sp...

Creating a Project Using Public Data for Fun and Profit: Part 4

May 5, 2023 · 13 min read · This blog is part 4 of "Creating a Project Using Public Data for Fun and Profit".Previous posts: part 1 part 2 part 3 In this part, we will cover: Adding support for Twitter and Facebook cards Measuring website performance using Google Analyti...

Creating a Project Using Public Data for Fun and Profit: Part 3

May 2, 2023 · 9 min read · This blog is part 3 of the "Creating a Project Using Public Data for Fun and Profit" series.Previous posts: part 1 part 2 In this part, we will cover: Adding a favicon Adding a sitemap and robots.txt Adding PWA support Deploying our website ...