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Cloudflare AI

Two Weeks with Cloudflare AI and Tools

My Odyssey (and Why I Switched to AWS Bedrock)
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Chris Towles

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Node.js

Debugging Local Packages Made Easy with pnpm

Debug your local Node.js packages like a pro (and with less pain) using pnpm link.
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Chris Towles

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AI

Using Ollama and Continue as a GitHub Copilot Alternative

A guide on how Ollama and Continue can serve as an alternative to GitHub Copilot.
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Chris Towles

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android

Fire tablet and YouTube Kids

Getting YouTube and YouTube Kids to work on Amazon Fire for kids
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Chris Towles

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productivity

Oh My Zsh on your server

Why i'm installing it on servers I ssh into a lot.
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Chris Towles

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airflow

Apache Airflow Part 1 - Why and Goals for a near Serverless ELT

Reasons I want to use Airflow for a Proof of Concept near Serverless ELT
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Chris Towles

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productivity

Why you should make a toolbox repository

the perfect place to put everything that doesn't belong anywhere else
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Chris Towles

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Productivity

Why using Conventional commits is useful

Helping everyone to understand the commit history and its purpose
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Chris Towles

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Blog

I am a Dark Matter Developer

Reflecting on my career and the type of developer I am.
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Chris Towles

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Migrate Vue 2 with Vuetify and Jest to Vite and Vitest

So my main project at work is a Vue 2 and Vuetify 2 site, but privately I have been playing with Vue 3 and loved the Composition API to avoid mixins. Due to some new features, we are planning to build soon. I wanted to write it in Vue 3, to prevent needing to migrate it later.
Chris Towles

Chris Towles

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You do not have time to not have tests

So first a full disclosure: I was late to get on the testing bandwagon.
Chris Towles

Chris Towles