Brian Childress

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

There is a time in everyone's career when they wonder if they should stay in their current role or move to a new role or company. Here are some of the things I consider when giving advice or making the decision for myself.

10-27-2021

Use Environment Variables with npx

If you use npx to execute commands and need to reference environment variables, the solution is very simple.

10-19-2021

Troubleshooting Major Version Upgrade: AWS Aurora

If you need to perform a major version upgrade to your AWS Aurora instance(s), you might run into errors, here's a possible solution

10-12-2021

Generate an Object from an Array of Objects

If you've ever had an array of objects, each with a unique value and wanted to deal with a single object this simple solution might help.

09-15-2021

Git Submodules: Error When Switching Branches

If you've received 'error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout', you are likely using git submodules. Here is how to get around that error.

08-19-2021

ESLint Out of Memory Error

When using ESLint with a lot of files or plugins, it's possible to cause an out of memory error, here are some tips for debugging and resolving

08-18-2021

VS Code Shortcuts

If you use VS Code, here are some handy shortcuts that might help make your development life a little easier.

07-14-2021

Hiding JavaScript Files in VS Code

Like most JavaScript developers I'm writing a lot of Typescript, here are the steps to hide the JavaScript files that are compiled during the development process in VS Code.

07-09-2021

Generate JWT for Testing

In this article we'll look at generating JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for testing purposes.

06-08-2021

Download an Entire Website Using wget

In this post we'll look at a simple wget command to download an entire website, including all content and assets.

06-01-2021