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Restaurants Chez Tousignant – Some of the best burgers I have ever had! Le Darling – a Nice restaurant with good drinks and food that is open late Le Majestique Montreal – Same restaurant group as Le Darling with an Oyster and wine pairing focus Au Pied de Cochon – Pork focus with duck in […]

I wrote a guide for my coworkers when visiting Philly for work or a personal trip. Here is a modified version of that guide: @belcherj‘s Top 10: Zahav – Amazing Israeli food, considered top 3 restaurants in Philly. Let me know if you need help with reservations.  I have the hook up. South Philly Barbacoa […]

I’m trying to transition an express node service to using the serverless framework and Google Cloud Functions. No matter what I tried I kept running into an issue where i was getting this error:  Unexpected token : in JSON at position 19 category: handler: category events: – http: path: category/{id} method: get cors: true After […]

I have been working on building a PWA front end for WooCommerce.  I saw the Polymer Shop repository and thought it couldn’t be that hard to wire up to a real backend and get everything working.  I was right and I was wrong. I started by creating a WordPress/WooCommerce install on Pressable.  This was really simple […]

Beer: Garage Beer Company – Brew pub BierCab – Bar and beer store.  Amazing selection in both. BrewDog Mikkeller Lambicus – Bottle shop with tons of Lambic.  Get a bottle of Cantillion Vivinos – Awesome boutique wine shop with good natural wine selection.  Get a bottle of BS Kaelderkold Tourist Stuff: La Sagrada Familia – Most beautiful thing […]

If you know me you probably know that I sincerely believe that for a project to be successful you need to have both a style guide and automatic enforcement of that guide (linting). I am always surprised when I speak with other developers, how few work on teams or at companies that have and enforce […]

I drink a lot of coffee. I write a lot of JavaScript.  This is about my journey from drip to my perfect cup. I probably started drinking coffee sometime in high school and have been addicted to caffeine ever since.  Until recently I have always made coffee using a drip coffee maker and enjoyed the […]