Steve Dignam
- Smart Quotes or No? Looking at some docsMar 15, 2025
- SMS Valet Simple UXMar 3, 2025
- Setting up a Background Task in SwiftUI backgroundtask(_:action:) & BGTaskSchedulerFeb 14, 2025
- Port Forwarding With Xfinity and MoCA A workaround for their appJan 27, 2025
- Download Your Library in Apple Music macOS + iOSJan 6, 2025
- Packaging Required Enforcing Boundaries Through VisibilityJan 2, 2025
- Web Editors A reviewJan 1, 2025
- Expression Languages CEL, NSPRedicate, JSON DSLsDec 7, 2024
- Toast vs Apple Pay Apple Pay is fasterNov 30, 2024
- Lyft, Uber, and Waymo Emails Keep it simpleNov 20, 2024
- Ruby Simplified Remove a bunch of stuffSep 19, 2024
- From poetry to uv Faster installs for pythonSep 4, 2024
- Reading URLs From the Clipboard in Swift UIPasteboard and AlertsAug 31, 2024
- Swift Placeholders in Xcode Work pretty wellAug 24, 2024
- SwiftData, Non-Sendable Types, and Async Sometimes a compiler warning?Aug 22, 2024
- Nice Codegen Smooth DXJun 28, 2024
- Local First Image Uploads Indexeddb and friendsJun 19, 2024
- Good Emails With examplesJun 19, 2024
- Testing Tenets Speed is importantMay 25, 2024
- Bulk APIs Batching for speed and easeMay 25, 2024
- Login via QR Code is Slick Need an appMay 24, 2024
- VSCode For Your Repo Polishing dev envMay 23, 2024
- OpenAPI and Codegen for Django With help from PydanticFeb 11, 2024
- Confirm not working in Safari window.confirm is a no goJan 24, 2024
- Prefixed usernames? Sometimes yes, sometimes noJan 19, 2024
- Dates and Datetimes in JSON APIs ISO 8601Jan 18, 2024
- Failing to Migrate from Vite to Next.js a friction logDec 3, 2023
- TikTok Favorites Exporter via python, sqlite, and yt-dlpDec 2, 2023
- Ensuring All Proto Fields Are Set Use the descriptor LukeOct 8, 2023
- Sharing Links To track, or not to trackAug 12, 2023
- Writing Java like TypeScript Embracing varJul 9, 2023
- The Many Problems with Celery With some possible fixesMay 20, 2023
- Abandoning logging for structlog Structured logs for greater goodApr 9, 2023
- Dark Mode for Emails Auto conversion and media queriesMar 2, 2023
- The Case for JavaScript Without Semicolons Less is more!Feb 12, 2023
- Scraping Whisk's GRPC-web API Binary is annoyingFeb 2, 2023
- Preloading with JS Apps Injecting some JSON and metadata into the pageJan 12, 2023
- Backwards Compatible API Changes What is safe to merge?Jan 8, 2023
- Free Tier Hosted Postgres Comparision Free Trials and Actual Free TiersDec 13, 2022
- Blurhash or Downscaled and Blurred Quality vs storageDec 6, 2022
- Zero to Connection String it's a race!Nov 19, 2022
- cursor: pointer and user-select: none and their usageNov 19, 2022
- Cutting Peak CPU in Half By Caching SSL Context A little py-spy goes a long wayNov 9, 2022
- Undoing changes to a file in a GitHub Pull Request A little `git diff`, a little `git apply`Nov 8, 2022
- The Limits of Browser Storage Depends on the browserOct 31, 2022
- Sync to Async Python for Speed 10x perf gains by using asyncio in PythonOct 15, 2022
- Gradually Enabling noImplicitAny TypeScript ESlint to the rescueOct 1, 2022
- HTTP Timeouts Setting an overall timeout in various languagesSep 4, 2022
- Scroll Restoration with Client Side Routing Instagram's vs Flickr's approachJul 15, 2022
- Inaccurate Theme Flashing Some examplesJun 11, 2022
- Reachability and Apple Music UIKit has forsaken usMay 14, 2022
- Problems Debugging iOS Safari from Mac ERROR: invalid input syntax for type inetApr 10, 2022
- A Decent Database Service Lots of features requiredMar 19, 2022
- Problems with Flow TypeScript FTWMar 1, 2022
- Prefix Your Env Vars Namespaces are goodJan 29, 2022
- Hosting Apps on a Subdomain? A SurveyJan 14, 2022
- CSP and CSS-in-JS No runtime CSS-in-JS for you!Jan 13, 2022
- Trimming Text -webkit-line-clamp enhancedJan 1, 2022
- Async Data Loading in React Sum Types vs Bools vs SuspenseNov 20, 2021
- input[type="number"] Unexpected change eventsSep 9, 2021
- Avoiding Implicit Conversions in TypeScript With the help of ESLintAug 11, 2021
- Beware of Array Spread hitting the limits of the call stackJul 24, 2021
- Better Review Apps aka Preview Deployments, Deploy Previews, etc.May 28, 2021
- What Node.js' HTTP server gets wrong Or, how CPS isn't user friendlyApr 7, 2021
- Are you sure you want `?` and not `| undefined` in your type? Optional vs possibly `undefined` in TypeScriptMar 16, 2021
- Debugging a Chrome Performance Bug A lesson in measuringFeb 4, 2021
- Handling Signals in Heroku Insufficent configJan 17, 2021
- Typed SQL Client & Query DSL in Python Pushing Python's static typing to the limitsJan 4, 2021
- Static Typing an ORM in Python Tips for adding static types to an ORMNov 23, 2020
- Type Stubs for Native Python Modules Packing and unpacking wheelsNov 12, 2020
- Towards a Better Heroku Requirements for a PaaSOct 25, 2020
- Leaving the ORM Behind Composing raw SQL queries in PythonOct 4, 2020
- Heroku Deployment Deception Deploys take a whileSep 18, 2020
- Relative and Absolute Imports in Python & TypeScript Beware of ambiguitySep 7, 2020
- ./.venv/bin/activate isn't magic You don't need itSep 7, 2020
- Pesky Globals, Even with TypeScript And how to avoid themJul 24, 2020
- Dynamic To Static Languages Type checkers for dynamic languagesJul 8, 2020
- Faster CI Builds in a Monorepo A little bash goes a long wayMay 3, 2020
- Stylex in TypeScript Another approach to CSS-in-JSApr 18, 2020
- Avoiding Another TypeScript Compiler Bug with ESLint ESLint FTWApr 15, 2020
- User Defined Ordering Made Easy ints, floats, decimals, rationals, and stringsMar 31, 2020
- Preventing Unindexed Queries in Django An exploration in runtime checkingFeb 15, 2020
- Preventing N+1 Queries in Django Django ORM requiredFeb 9, 2020
- Debugging Performance Issues with Py-Spy With included SVGsFeb 8, 2020
- Newtypes in TypeScript Nominal typing in a structural worldDec 11, 2019
- Distributing a Python Project with Pex and Poetry Executable zip filesNov 17, 2019
- Soundness with Mypy, Flow, and Typescript A brief comparisionNov 9, 2019
- Arbitrary Precision Decimal Fields with Django ORM Using Postgres features from DjangoOct 24, 2019
- Avoiding TypeScript Compiler Bugs via ESlint Rules Initialize your declarationsOct 14, 2019
- Exhaustiveness Checking and Breaking API Changes Adding enum variants is breakingSep 15, 2019
- Python's Async Stack Traces Much nicer than JSAug 30, 2019
- Replacing YAML With Dhall Static typing your configJul 31, 2019
- Unclogging an Asyncio Event Loop A little cProfile goes a long wayJun 13, 2019
- Python's Pathlib in Swift Cute operator overloadingMay 13, 2019
- Deterministic Bundles With Webpack Beware of random in SassFeb 10, 2019
- Tslint Rule Lessions in writing a new ruleJan 18, 2019
- Sum Types for Remote Data in TypeScript Use the compiler Luke!Dec 27, 2018
- Creating A Flake8 Lint Pretty straight forwardDec 16, 2018
- Detecting Recursion In Python Fun with inspectDec 13, 2018
- Autonomous Transactions in Postgres By using another connectionOct 12, 2018
- Are Parser Generators Common? No. Handwritten vs generated language parsersSep 18, 2018
- React, Redux, and TypeScript walk into a – Type Error Comparing Redux libraries for side-effectSep 2, 2018
- Handling Strings A comparision of various languagesAug 8, 2018