Filipe Fortes

How to make your co-workers think you’re working from Mordor
For the past year and a half, I’ve been working remotely for Coda. Fortunately, this has worked well since the company was already distributed with offices in California and Washington State....

How to avoid using xargs at all costs
I am computer nerd who is easily seduced by automation, which means I end up writing a fair number of shell scripts. Even though I’ve written my fair share of Bash, my small primate brain never quite grasps the language and I always copy-paste my way...

Figuring out why your foot got blown off after you inadvertently shot it
When possible, avoid mixing React event handlers with the native DOM event handlers. Using React’s event handling is unequivocally the way to go (less code, better for performance, avoids memory leaks, etc). Unfortunately, since you’re reading this,...

Create an encrypted drive pool in a hundred steps or less
Due to a combination of hoarding (digital and physical), frugality, and laziness I have a large number of external hard drives and cloud services that I use for general storage and backup. I also have an annoying tendency to physically misplace things...