November 18, 2023To be honest, I'm not quite as cheerful as I normally am this time of year, but I am definitely looking forward to spending some time with…
November 23, 2022Late November: that quite time of year between a busy fall and the start of winter. A great time for reflection and future plans. Looking…
May 6, 2022An Open Letter ⚠️ Language / rant warning in this one ⚠️
I'm struggling right now.
I'm not sure if anyone needs to hear this (or even wants…
December 21, 2021Whew... this year has been insane. I truly can't believe the new year is in just a handful of days! As just a breif overview of everything…
Converting a Large Create React App Project from JavaScript to TypeScript
August 21, 2021The TypeScript Addiction I'm working on a large industrial react project, scaffolded by create-react-app. The project was started in 2018, j…
Plug Time: Going Full Send on Teaching and Content Creation
January 18, 2021Let's Do This! 🚀 2021 is my year! Uh oh, I should probably avoid that phrase... we all know what happened in 2020 with too many people…
December 20, 2020Each year I set a set of goals or resolutions for the coming year, and also review and grade myself for the past year's goals. Here's that…
November 27, 2020I've been thinking of making these animated blog posts. They're gonna be BIG, with BIG DATA, and to help with that, I'm gonna be adding…
January 12, 2020Though it's only the second year of doing this, I really enjoy this yearly review and will likely be doing it for the forseeable coming…
A Single Bash Command To Simultaneously Run and Compile a CSharp (.cs) File
December 5, 2019Background: 2019 Advent of Code and Microsoft Troubles I've started the 2019 Advent of Code for this December! (This will be my first one…
October 18, 2019It Was... Inevitable... Like many hobby programming things I get into, my interests burn bright, then fade out fast (hint - it's the INTJ wa…
July 25, 2019Part II The promised post-mortem of Welp, I Did It. I Quit My Job.
Some newer digital art of mine. Actually somewhat relevant to this story…
January 13, 2019This post is also published on Medium, if you prefer to read there, but it was posted here first. 😊 Results First, Technical Stuff Later
I…
January 3, 2019Every Dev's Doing It! Blogging about their goals for 2019, of course!
I find that making goals works best for me, as they are more concrete…
Interesting Monopoly Probabilities (To Defeat your Relatives For the Holidays!)
December 29, 2018Holiday Break = Monopoly (Logically) 😂 Ahhh, it's that :snowflake: time :snowflake: of year again - a break from work with lots of time…
December 28, 2018There's a new '#data' tag here on my blog, since I've realized a lot of my projects labeled with the '#dev' tag are more specifically data…
December 12, 2018Today is the exact Birthday Date of my Blog! If you go to my very first post, my 'Hello World - My First Post' post - you'll see the date is…
Oh The Horror! The Dreaded "WebpackError ReferenceError window is not defined"!
December 8, 2018The Root Issue If you're reading this in 2018, 2019, and 2020, the statement shown next to that error is likely an npm module that hasn't…
Simple Actions You Can Take Right Now to Improve the Environment and Combat Climate Change
December 7, 2018The motivation to write this post has come to me over the past few weeks as there has been another wave of scary environmental press from…
November 23, 2018Jumping to the Web GUI from a SAPUI5 app can be helpful, since it will keep your user all in the same app (their browser), and they won't…
Run an Existing Magento 2 App with Homebrew Apache on MacOS in 2018 / 2019
November 19, 2018Originally published here, also published on Medium. So, I started working on a new Magento project with my boss this past weekend, and…
Want to Build a Blog Just Like This One? Now You Can!
November 17, 2018If you've been wondering about how the internals of my blog are built and developed, you can now learn it from me, step by step, from my…
October 28, 2018This is going to be an ongoing bullet point of some of my own personal guidelines as a Software Engineer. They probably relate to most other…
July 25, 2018Thoughts of yet another full-time worker going full-time freelance / tinkerer / creative / nomad. ***Note: this post is mirrored on Medium…
Fully Automating Chrisfrew.in Productions - Part 4 of ??? - Building a Slack Bot
July 21, 2018Slack Bot! You may have read Part 3 of my giant automation undertaking about. Maybe not.
Anyway, near the bottom of Part 3, I discuss a mes…
Fully Automating Chrisfrew.in Productions - Part 3 of ??? - Building a GitHub Webhook Monitor
July 20, 2018Background and Overview of this Technologically Amazing Accomplishment After a bit of thinking about my automation project, I settled on a…
Data Analysis and Pixel Art of Towns and Cities in Pokemon
July 15, 2018Over the past few days, I've done some data analysis, scripting, and art with the 20 towns and cities from Pokemon Gold. The results were…
Fully Automating Chrisfrew.in Productions - Part 2 of ??? - Building a Node.js Server Monitor
May 11, 2018In my attempt to automate my suite of websites, I wanted to build a simple Node.js server that monitors all my live sites, and sends me an…
April 7, 2018Whew. It's been over a month since my last post! This is mainly because of some of the projects I've been working on; so rest assured there…
How to be an American living in Austria and working in Liechtenstein
January 17, 2018Hey, Want to be an American living in Austria and working in Liechtenstein? Look no further!
This is a detailed how-to guide on applying and…
January 11, 2018At some point, SAP took away my Monokai Color scheme from the SAPUI5 Web IDE! That is unforgivable... Don't worry - code to the rescue!
I…
Calculating Activity Amounts for Production and Process Orders with SAP ABAP
January 3, 2018Edit June 1st, 2018: There was ANOTHER issue with this code! There is something you need to add if you want to book custom goods movements…
Debugging ABAP Code with a SAP Shortcut - A Must-Have Tool!
December 27, 2017This is a Must-Have Tool for any ABAP Developer! Did you ever find you wanted to debug something in SAP GUI right on a certain command or…
December 24, 2017No, It's not Easter for Christmas... It's a quick surprise for those celebrating christmas from npm!
Simply issue npm xmas in your terminal:…
December 22, 2017HTML in Markdown!? Well, it's a little known fact (at least it was for me) that you can use native HTML tags are supported in Markdown…
How to Link to Lines of Code in a Github Repository!
December 19, 2017This'll be a real short one; I just learned you can link to specific lines of code on GitHub! All you need to do is find your link to the…
My Laptop Stickers Arrived! Am I a Real Developer Now?!
December 19, 2017Nothing shows others better that you are a humble, totally epic developer, than putting really cheap stickers on your really expensive…
My First and Final Statement on Bitcoin for this Blog
December 18, 2017Lots of words have been thrown around Bitcoin recently. Tulip Madness. Silk Road. Ponzi Scheme. While this blog will (rest assured) remain…
December 13, 2017Alright, let's do a bit of applied stuff today. For a long time, I had a ticket open for our IT team (I am likewise in the SAP team) for an…
December 12, 2017Warning everyone - this is a bit of rant post - but I hope some of you will agree and we can turn the tables of a stubborn community a bit.…
December 11, 2017I'll be writing here for sometime into the future now, though I'm not sure how often, as I'm rather busy with the work for NLP Champs and Sk…