Software Posts

04/22/2022 Justin Hammond 3 minutes Software

There has long been a debate of build vs buy when it comes to a software solution. You can either build the thing yourself which allows for complete control and customization or you can go out and buy the thing or find an open source alternative which all ...

06/04/2021 Justin Hammond 3 minutes Software

Flask made an oopsie. I love the framework it works well and is simple enough to integrate in a Python project to spin up a quick API. But they don't pin their dependencies or didn't which caused massive issues across thousands of code basis overnight ...

10/12/2020 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 ...

10/12/2020 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 ...

10/12/2020 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 ...

10/12/2020 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 ...

05/12/2022 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 ...

04/23/2022 Justin Hammond 2 minutes Software

I've always been in love with the idea of documentation. For a developer there is no greater joy than finding someone took the painstaking time to write out instructions on how to get started with a project lessons learned things to avoid etc. I believe t ...