
I'm Wes. I live in Boston and work on Wonderment.
BB
Feb 24, 2023A simulator for Big Brother season 25. This simulates the Big Brother Memory Wall. Strategize and visualize different scenarios. Pick the Head of Household, the winner of the power of veto, and the evicted house guests.
quick_notes.txt
Aug 4, 2022Jot something down in clear text. Skip the knowledge graph.
Life calendar
Apr 8, 2022A 90 year human life in weeks, on one chart.
JSON response after passport js authentication
Apr 5, 2022How to send a JSON response after passport js authentication.
Meditation
Jul 18, 2021Breathing exercise for mindfulness and meditation. Bring focus to your breathe.
Structuring functional programs
May 18, 2021Onion architecture and database access patterns for functional applications.
Linux Uptime Command
May 8, 2021The uptime command gives you information about the current time, online users, how long your system has been up and running, and the system load average.
Principles
Apr 24, 2021Foundational principles to help guide my decisions and behavior.
Competitive programming vs. real-life programming?
Apr 24, 2021How is competitive programming different from real-life programming?
Chess clock
Jan 17, 2021Chess clock for timing speed matches.
Fischer random chess generator
Jan 1, 2021Fischer random chess generator.
Art
Sep 18, 2020A CSS canvas for when I'm feeling artistic. Originally created on Sep 18, 2020
Bookshelf
Aug 8, 2020A catalog of my books. I enjoy browsing other people's bookshelves, so this is intended to be a digital version of that. I've bucketed this list into multiple genres but they are in no particular order. I haven't read all of these books. Recommended books are marked *
The Boston Flag
Jun 9, 2023Flag of Boston. Boston's symbol for pride and unity. Memorably simple, boldly patterned, and easily recognizable.
Issue connecting to postgres on AWS SAM?
Sep 21, 2020I've had difficulty connecting to the local API gateway and hitting my postgres connection. Solution - host.docker.internal
Creating a Twitter bot with Node and AWS SAM
Sep 6, 2020Creating a twitter bot that forecasts the 2020 election with node.js and AWS Serverless application model
gitignore not working?
Aug 30, 2020When gitignore does not ignore your file/folder, git is probably has this cached. Here's how to fix this issue.
Start an ngrok session on multiple tunnels
Aug 30, 2020When running ngrok it can be useful to run multiple tunnels in a session or use different hostnames for the same tunnel. Here is how to do that
2038: Y2K, Unix, and the end of time
Aug 23, 2020On January 19th 2038 at 3:14am technology across the world will break.
A fun logic puzzle
Aug 16, 2020What answer is the correct answer to this question? A fun logic puzzle.
Learn to automate
Aug 3, 2020Learning to code might be a little more appealing if it was framed a little differently. You should learn to automate.
Asimov's laws are nonsense
Jul 30, 2020Asimov's three laws of robotics are great for storytelling, but that's about it.
How to collapse code sections in VS Code
Jul 13, 2020Visual studio code shortcuts to collapse code sections
Bug - Extension/file-type issue when uploading S3 assets
Jul 13, 2020Fun bug - Files uploaded to S3 have content type application/octet-stream unless files explicitly have a .html extension
Migrating from Gatsby to Next.js & S3
Jul 7, 2020Technical implementation details of this blog
E-voting is a terrible idea
Jun 29, 2020It breaks anonymity, trust, and is prone to attacks
Benefits of functional programming
May 2, 2017Functional programming and purity is beautiful
Ignore files without using .gitignore
Apr 24, 2017Update the .git/info/excludes file
Redesigning the US dollar
Aug 26, 2016A closer look at the US dollar
Can you study software engineering by yourself?
Sep 21, 2014A guide for folks looking to study computer science/software engineering on their own for free.