Coder's Coffee House

• Rails Inertia Svelte Setup

  2023-10-20

  I've been working with Rails a lot lately and I also happen to be a big fan of Svelte. Svelte is a sort of Rails for the front end (low barrier of entry, sensible defaults etc) and I wanted to get the two working together. I also wanted to use ...

• Awk Is Easy To Use

  2023-09-19

  The problem Unfortunately a lot of coding is dealing with boilerplate - assigning getters and setters to all the properties of a class for example. And because you're dealing with data a lot of the time this is database driven. The simplest way for me is inspecting the schema, for ...

• RESTful APIs With DreamFactory

  2023-07-14

  The Problem Most of the programming I have done over the past twenty years has been writing boring line of business applications and it's probably what any programmer reading this also does most of the time. There are lots of tools in the 'low code' area but they're usually targeted ...

• .NET Debugging Using Vim On Apple Silicon Machine

  2022-10-26

  I've mostly been using Vim for my development work recently. I have a JetBrains subscription but hopping between IDEs felt like overkill and I wanted something simpler. I have been an avid Rider user since it came out and I wanted to see if I could get the debugging working ...

• WordPress With Tailwind Made Simple

  2022-06-18

  Embracing WordPress Anyone acquainted with web development knows about the ubiqity of WordPress. Finding every other website I visit being powered by the platform I've decided to embrace it recently. This website will still be powered by Eleventy but I will likely go down the WordPress route from now on. ...