Chris DiLorenzo - Chris DiLorenzo Online

Hello Glance

Yesterday I released my first npm package: glance I wanted to understand the process of publishing an npm package a bit better. Specifically how hard it would be to support a package that works in legacy node, using the CommonJS style modules and current node (14 at time of writing)

anti-patterns

Offering to help and then not helping is worse than not offering in the first place.

In life and in workplaces I‘ve noticed a very common anti pattern that pops up from time to time. And I‘m pretty sure I‘ve been on the offending side as well. Imagine you are an employee in a pet store that has too many cats. Me: Oooff,

New CSS debugging feature in Firefox

A new feature in Firefox (follow link below) allows you to see why certain CSS rules are not having an effect. Why isn’t this CSS doing anything?There are a number of property & value combinations that can lead to CSS being inactive, and now Firefox will tell you

Guido Leaving Dropbox

Guido van Rossum (creator of the python programming language) is leaving dropbox. I've used python whenever it‘s made sense in my career and hope to return to using it soon. I highly recommend you read the blog post, but here are a few key tidbits: Python just works. Early

My chromium bug

An oral (written?) history of my chromium bug. Allow my journey to add some clarity as to how a regular run-of-the-mill bug gets processed for one of the most used pieces of software in the world. On July 5th 2016 I noticed something odd happening. I was using srcset to

The mystical engineering roadmap

What is it? Who creates it? How often does it get updated? How far into the future does it go? It turns out that when you ask engineering leaders (be it CTO's or VPs of Eng. or Directors of Eng.) in companies and startups they will generally give fairly similar

Jack Dorsey SIM Swapped

When I woke up this morning, I did not expect to have a hot take opinion on Twitters CEO Jack Dorsey being SIM swapped, allowing the attacker(s) to send several tweets from his account using the text to tweet service. But here we are, apparently. The idea I want

HTTPS for local dev environment

This is a post about converting your local dev environments to HTTPS. I will briefly get into why you would want to do this, and show some example code for doing it in webpack devserver (for frontend) and on express (for backend). Why?Run your local environment on HTTPS to

commentary

In defense of the tech industry

I‘m reading a good article by Paul Ford on Wired and the following jumped out at me as a mistake I used to make.

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Going Critical

At very low transmission rates, like 10 percent, the infection tends to die out. Whereas at higher values, like 50 percent, the infection remains alive and takes over most of the network. If the network were infinite, we could imagine it continuing on and spreading outward forever.

quick tip

Promote and Compare

There are a lot of ways to release software, some go straight to production on merging into the master branch. While others have a much more manual process. There are tradeoffs for all the different ways of shipping code that are out of the scope of this post. Stated briefly,

Intro

Ah yes, old man DiLorenzo is getting his feet wet in the blog game. But "why"? For now it is a place to put content that needs a more permanent home. My general game plan is to write about advanced topics in an easy to understand way. Keeping