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Hello, my name is Jesse Shawl. This website is my little corner of the world wide web where I post notes about programming and computer-related things that I wish had existed before I wrote them.

Featured Projects

• saas-starter.app Ruby on Rails boilerplate for new SaaS ventures.
• proof.im Zero-trust digital signature proofs of identity.
• CI Notify Zero-configuration notifications for CI/CD pipelines.
• httpz.app Inspect RESTful http requests.
• unqueue Mark all Pocket items read.

Useful Links

• 🔏 proof.im/jshawl
• mailto:jesse@jesse.sh
• github.com/jshawl
• codepen.io/jshawl
• twitter.com/jshawl
• stackoverflow.com/jshawl
• keybase.io/jshawl

Notes

1. Require esm imports 2023-05-08
2. HTTP Authentication via SSH 2023-04-08
3. Recursive React Forms 2022-12-08
4. Dual Range Input 2022-09-20
5. Introducing Telephony.cc 2021-05-15
6. npm pack 2021-01-23
7. Recursive Vue Components 2017-02-01
8. Customize Rails Collection Checkboxes 2017-01-25
9. Cacheing API Calls 2017-01-04
10. Let's build a CRUD app with the Fetch API 2016-07-22
11. Express from Scratch 2016-04-20
12. Dependency Injection 101 2015-09-20
13. [book] The Art of Unix Programming 2015-06-02
14. Hoisting Can Be Dangerous 2015-04-27
15. Testing Webhooks Locally 2015-02-28
16. Alias Your Referral Codes 2015-02-21
17. Undo `git clean` 2015-02-07
18. Contributing to Ruby gems 2014-12-20
19. Mercurial for Git Evangelists 2014-12-08
20. Async API Calls with Pagination 2014-11-28
21. Interactive Rebasing Considered Harmful 2014-10-31
22. Rails JSON Virtual Attributes 2014-10-30
23. Link Workflow 2014-10-27
24. devbattle 2014-10-22
25. Dropdown change events and selectedIndex 2014-07-03
26. Self hosted project pages 2014-06-30
27. Jekyll 2.1.0 is out, and I'm a contributor 2014-06-30
28. Linode and The 10 Dollar Plan 2014-06-17
29. sudo npm install -g is an antipattern 2014-06-12
30. Clean up pull requests with git merge --squash 2014-05-27
31. Persistent git log with git loglive 2014-05-24
32. Repo Stats from the command line 2014-05-23
33. Clean up Commits with git cherry-pick -n 2014-05-23
34. A Better Git Log 2014-05-23
35. Warning! push.default is not set 2014-05-21
36. Practical Applications of Pseudo Elements and Classes 2013-12-12
37. When to Rebase 2013-12-03
38. Rethinking Dynamic Page Replacing Content 2012-12-30

I also keep a list of my teaching experience and projects I've worked on.