When creating japapps.com, I wanted a minimal and easy way to generate HTML from a database of articles. I chose to start with HandlebarsJS. This worked well until recently. …

There is an easy an simple way to store JSON data without needing a full backend or server. Several times past weeks, I wanted this as I was building small tools and PoCs and today, I want to share what I found. My Googling came up short and I even…

I think words are important. I have always liked how stringing together the right ones makes poetry. Switching a single word in a sentence can change the sentiment completely. Words have power. They inspire emotion and can bring us together, or apart. If I ask you to think of Spring…

Are you adding print statements and rerunning your scraper time and again to test your output? Do you wish you could set breakpoints? Do you have chrome open in the background and using jQuery to test those selectors live on the website you are trying to scrape? I know this…

I use Firebase auth for my JReader app, SEORank as well as my daytime work app FACY. I love how it makes securing your app easy and it is incredibly powerful. Combine the auth events with Firebase functions and you can control user membership lifecycles such as sending welcome emails…

Today I was googling, yet again, to get a quick encoding of an HTML snippet to display inside a web page I was creating. I’ve done this a hundred times and every time I seem to land on a new tool but they all have something in common. They are…

Here on Medium and on LinkedIn lately, I keep coming across these absolutes. “Never do X” or “Always do Y”. What prompted me to write this was an entry on how bias for action in leadership will result in your team becoming a feature factor that skips discovery and research…

In this post, I want to share a tiny NodeJS based tool for getting quick statistics on how many users are signed up with what provider in your firebase project. If you want to get right into it, check out the repository: GitHub - ddikman/firebase-provider-stats: Tiny nodejs based tool to calculate some quick stats… Tiny nodejs based tool to calculate some quick stats based on Firebase Auth. Because I needed to figure out if my…github.com

The other week I was introduced to Carbon by Matt Bancroft who recently joined our team at Styler. He used Carbon to share code in his Medium article and I really liked the way it looked compared to Gists that I have been using until now. …