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For My Next Trick: React in Rocket!

I wanted to finally create a light API to more easily use my Ethel app and start actually organizing my bottle collection. At this point, I have been working on this project for more than a year! How time flies! I thought about spinning up a separate React app and

99 more Bottles for Ethel and a Wee Heavy Brew

Last time, we created our boozeparser to parse csv data in order to feed my initial attempt at bottle inventory into our database for the Ethel API. We had a set of simple requirements, and we accomplished the first two: 1) should be able to run from the command line

99 Bottles... and Then Some

Previously I spent a great deal of time creating a basic API for storing and retrieving bottles in an alcohol collection, as well as locations associated with those bottles and their category. Before I ever started the Rust and Rocket series, I had actually started manually recording our liquor collection

Rocket and Rust Part VI (and some barrel aged libations)

At long last! An end to the rocket and rust series... and the beginning of something new!

Rocket and Rust Part V (and a sip of summer)

Last time on "Rust of our Lives"... Okay, sorry. I remember any time I was home sick from school, my mom would have her "soaps" on. I still have vivid memories from the daytime dramas. Where was I? Oh yeah! Last time on Part IV, I

Rocket and Rust Part IV (and a kegerator)

Here we are again, folks! Last time I started building my actual project: Ethel. Ethel will track information about my alcohol collection, hopefully so I can find things easier. I setup my initial implementation of my data structures (subject to change) and have a "random bottle" route which

Rocket and Rust Part III (and a canned cocktail star)

Alright, so far I have talked a lot about wanting to learn Rust and wanting to implement a web application using the Rocket framework. Alright... but what am I actually building? Well... In case my blog, my domain, my profile photo, or any of the other many clues was not

Rocket and Rust Part II (and Midnight Orange)

Now that I have Rust running locally and a basic understanding of Rust from going through the Tour of Rust, I want to build something more substantial. I knew from the beginning I wanted to build some kind of web application, given my background in web app development. I looked

Rocket and Rust Part I (with a side of smoke)

After leaving my last role, I had some time on my hands. Aside from the normal list of things to do around the house, I also realized I wanted to spend some time learning Rust. I have heard a ton about Rust of the last couple of years, including watching

Another Three Years Pass and still drinking Sours

Three years on, and still drinking sours! What's changed, what hasn't, and what's next.

Three years worth of change and a summer of hard seltzer

I have been remiss in posting for more than three years! It's hard to believe it has been so long, and yet so many thing have happened since then. I have been in the PNW for over three years now. I switched jobs a little over two years

Testing Google Picker/Drive on Localhost and... Cider?!

Today I decided to write a quick post about user the Google Picker API on a local machine. Having encountered this issue myself while developing, the solution is not particularly intuitive unless you have edited your computer's host file before. So, first, let us define the problem. I

Formly File Uploads and Fu Man Brew

(Phew, well that took awhile. I have been working on the following blog post for a year now. Work has been insane, and this has been the longest post to date by far. Hopefully this is the end of a long hiatus!) Recently, I was required to incorporate local file

For the Love of Angular and Homebrew (not the package manager)

March was an extremely busy month, with one more big event today before I get a break. A month ago, in early March, I was fortunate enough to attend ng-conf in Salt Lake City, UT. Between the pre-conference workshops and the main single track talks, I learned so much about

The Joy of Angular Form States

I love Angular. When Angular first started coming into the public eye, I was ecstatic. I fell in the love with the Model View Whatever architecture, and the ease of keeping otherwise messy JavaScript and jQuery from doing behind the scenes DOM manipulation. Instead Angular allowed on-the-fly data bindings from

Handlebars, Ghost, and a Black Diamond

Finally have the blog looking a bit more reputable. I found a nice Ghost template to start with (credits down below) until I decide to make my own. I also managed to do some fun edits to make the template a bit more usable for me. Through this process, I