While I was trying to incorporate Stripe’s Javascript library into my codebase, I ran into some issues implementing it in Typescript. I eventually was able to fix those issues, but while I was trying to figure that out, I left the Stripe code as Javascript and stumbled upon an …

I found the documentation for presigned URLS on AWS using boto to be insufficient, so here is how I formed the request.

I wanted to have a file private in S3, but expose it to a user for download if they were authorized to access it. I found the easiest …

I originally created this blog using an EC2 instance on AWS and used that to run Jekyll and host the site. Recently, I shut down that instance in order to move the site generation to my local machine(s) and host the site on S3. This article was very helpful …

A website I am currently creating has a very simple front end, but I wanted to be able to swap out instances of my API URLs in TypeScript depending which environment I am working in or building for. So far they are all ‘http://127.0.0.1:8000/’, but …

I am creating a Django application using PostgreSQL (PSQL) for my database and was nearly finished with the API when I discovered some strange behavior. After successfully testing the API in the Django app, I decided to run some basic queries on the database. I received the following error for …

I had a little trouble finding a simple way to set NGINX up to work locally, so I wanted to write up some quick instructions here. I’m using NGINX with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

First, I installed NGINX in WSL with ‘sudo apt-get install nginx’

Then, I created …

For a new project, I wanted to use TypeScript on the front end but not any of the frameworks that usually include it (React, Angular, etc.). Unfortunately, this means that when I have been trying to figure out how to do something in TypeScript, searches often lead me to solutions …

While trying to get more familiar with Django, I started watching talks from DjangoCon from the last few years. I can’t seem to find the talk, but one of them had a list of great Python/Django talks, which inspired me to create me own list (with some definite …

Because I feel much more comfortable in a terminal than on the Windows command line (or in Powershell), I’ve really been enjoying Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In fact, I use it almost exclusively for accessing the server I run this blog from. WSL is essentially a Linux VM …

This week at our local Unity user meetup group, I presented (along with a co-organizer of the group) about Scriptable Objects in Unity. You can find that talk here.

This is that same content in text form.

Scriptable objects are a powerful tool in designing and developing games in Unity3D …