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Building my Magic Mirror

2020/10/12 Justin Hammond 5 minutes Stories

Mirror Mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all? Not too often can fairy tales come true in real life but seldom magic truly can happen in the real world. I was recently introduced to the Magic Mirrorhttpsgithub.comMichMichMagicMirror project ...

Clone or Pull All of your GitHub Repositories

2020/10/12 Justin Hammond 2 minutes Software

Have you ever needed to clone or pull all of your GitHub repositories? What about your organization repos or gists? Then there are private repos in addition to your public ones. This question has been on the minds of many and often people try to build rou ...

The Importance of Unit Tests

2020/08/30 Justin Hammond 4 minutes Software

Recently I've taken on a new job as a software engineer. As part of this job I'm required to write unit tests for all my work. Up until this point in my software career I haven't built tests for the code I've written. Personal projects or frontend website ...

My Backup Solution - Protecting Precious Data

2020/01/26 Justin Hammond 4 minutes Tips & Guides

Intro With so much of our lives living on hard drives solid states phones and computers backing up our data should is critical part of our habits and schedules. Youve probably been where many have been before I lost that precious picture journal video ...

Homebrew Owned by a Standard User

2020/01/08 Justin Hammond 2 minutes Software

What is Homebrew Homebrew is a package manager for macOS allowing you to install things from the command line. It houses most everything you'd need or could find on the web that is widely used. Standard User Setup One of the biggest questions I ...

EasyPost UI

2020/01/06 Justin Hammond 3 minutes Software

EasyPost UI Have you ever wanted to print a label from home for any carrier you could imagine getting discounted rates all from a single application? Most people probably havent actually but if you are a business owner this probably sounds like someth ...

My $10,000 Mistake

2020/01/06 Justin Hammond 5 minutes Stories

Ive been a developer for many years now. Developers know all about copyright law especially when it comes to digital assets. Most people disregard copyright law we do live in a world of memes music covers and creations by fans of all kinds of media after ...

Apple Card - The Future of Cards

2020/01/06 Justin Hammond 3 minutes Reviews

Ive been an Apple fanboy for years. Whenever a new gadget came out from Apple I jumped at the opportunity to get it. Then Apple released the Apple Card I was skeptical. A technology company getting into the financial business seemed exciting but was conc ...

Automated Scripting - Take Back Your Time

2020/01/06 Justin Hammond 3 minutes Software

I've recently focused a lot of my efforts on automation. Humans are naturally prone to introduce errors into whatever they do this can be disastrous when we are talking about the uptime of production systems and uniform technical details playing vital ro ...

Migrate Google Drive Across Domains

2019/09/19 Justin Hammond 6 minutes Tips & Guides

Intro Have you ever needed to migrate files or an entire drive structure from one domain to another? Many people have. Whether you rebrand or just want to share some files with another company quickly there is a growing need to do this however Google do ...

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