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.

Useful Links

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

Featured Projects

• minisign Ruby implementation of jedisct1/minisign.
• 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.

Notes (rss)

1. 2025-11-23 Static SSL Nim Binaries
2. 2024-07-26 dynamic @FetchRequest with MapKit and SwiftUI
3. 2024-01-26 diy jwt signatures
4. 2023-10-10 Just enough Java for Crafting Interpreters
5. 2023-05-08 Require esm imports
6. 2023-04-08 HTTP Authentication via SSH
7. 2022-12-08 Recursive React Forms
8. 2022-09-20 Dual Range Input
9. 2021-05-15 Introducing Telephony.cc
10. 2021-01-23 npm pack
11. 2017-02-01 Recursive Vue Components
12. 2017-01-25 Customize Rails Collection Checkboxes
13. 2017-01-04 Cacheing API Calls
14. 2016-07-22 Let's build a CRUD app with the Fetch API
15. 2016-04-20 Express from Scratch
16. 2015-09-20 Dependency Injection 101
17. 2015-06-02 [book] The Art of Unix Programming
18. 2015-04-27 Hoisting Can Be Dangerous
19. 2015-02-28 Testing Webhooks Locally
20. 2015-02-21 Alias Your Referral Codes
21. 2015-02-07 Undo `git clean`
22. 2014-12-20 Contributing to Ruby gems
23. 2014-12-08 Mercurial for Git Evangelists
24. 2014-11-28 Async API Calls with Pagination
25. 2014-10-31 Interactive Rebasing Considered Harmful
26. 2014-10-30 Rails JSON Virtual Attributes
27. 2014-10-27 Link Workflow
28. 2014-10-22 devbattle
29. 2014-07-03 Dropdown change events and selectedIndex
30. 2014-06-30 Self hosted project pages
31. 2014-06-30 Jekyll 2.1.0 is out, and I'm a contributor
32. 2014-06-17 Linode and The 10 Dollar Plan
33. 2014-06-12 sudo npm install -g is an antipattern
34. 2014-05-27 Clean up pull requests with git merge --squash
35. 2014-05-24 Persistent git log with git loglive
36. 2014-05-23 Repo Stats from the command line
37. 2014-05-23 Clean up Commits with git cherry-pick -n
38. 2014-05-23 A Better Git Log
39. 2014-05-21 Warning! push.default is not set
40. 2013-12-12 Practical Applications of Pseudo Elements and Classes
41. 2013-12-03 When to Rebase
42. 2012-12-30 Rethinking Dynamic Page Replacing Content