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Groupthink In Engineering Teams

Published on 2024-11-05 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

What is Groupthink? As defined by Wikipedia , groupthink is: a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for ...

My Simple Obsidian to Github Pages Writing Workflow

Published on 2024-11-04 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

Writing is hard. But so is publishing your writing. And much like software, publishing is the analog of "going to production" ie. only when your ...

Copy/Pasta Driven Development®

Published on 2020-07-26 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

As seen in numerous pull requests, the conversation goes something like this: Me: “Interesting solution. Where did this come from?” Colleague: “I found it on ...

Good Job Jekyll

Published on 2020-06-21 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

Good job Jekyll and the team around Jekyll Admin ! After lots of time away from writing publically, I have come back to it. Not ...

Flask and Javascript Testing

Published on 2018-02-20 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

There comes a time in a Flask applications lifecycle where javascript testing may become necessary. You might have lots of jQuery laying around. Or get ...

Pgloader on Mac

Published on 2017-05-30 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

Getting Started The other day, we at Solaris Offgrid needed to port our database over to PostgreSQL. It was time. For that task we used ...

Cordova Geolocation Plugin with Ionic 2 and ngRx

Published on 2017-01-27 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

The other day I was installing the Cordova Geolocation plugin on an Ionic2 implementing Redux app I have. The issue I was having, was storing ...

Chic-a-Chic-a-CheckBox

Published on 2016-10-30 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

Im going to try to keep my future posts short and simple. KISS Ahhh…. the beautiful checkbox in your form. You just love clicking it ...

VirtualBox on Kali-Linux

Published on 2016-10-27 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

Want to run a virtual machine within Kali Linux? You can use VirtualBox easily on your setup. Here is how to do it Execute {% ...

Learning programming the harder way

Published on 2016-09-22 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

Summary The answers to your bug or issue most likely is NOT in a textbook, blogpost, or article Pick a goal, a large goal, and ...

Icons For Days

Published on 2016-09-17 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

Let me start off by saying that the folks over at Ionic are doing a great job. They are responsive to user issues, requests, and ...

README

Published on 2016-09-16 by Andrew Graham-Yooll

readme One of the greatest lessons I have learned in development is to always read the README. Instead of asking a question on StackOverflow or ...

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