Software Posts

2023/05/26 Justin Hammond 8 minutes Software

Exploring the Problem Its pretty standard to writeup a postmortem after stuff breaks in production. It helps to identify and analyze what went wrong how it was fixed and how it can be avoided in the future. Join me on my 1.5 year journey of fixing a n ...

2022/09/17 Justin Hammond 10 minutes Software

Where Can I Get the App Crazy Color Clashhttpsapps.apple.comusappcrazycolorclashid1641436535 is available on the iOS App Store download it today for free! How the Project Got Started I've dreamed of publishing something on the App Store for yea ...

2022/04/22 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 ...

2021/06/04 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 bases overnight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2019/09/17 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 ...