Hi there!

Setting up a server-side for an app can feel like a really intimidating thing, especially for someone new to web development. Let’s forego the frameworks and other fancy stuff, and just get down to the details that really matter.

When starting a new project, there’s always a number of configurations to set up. Of course, you could maintain templates to generate these things using some tool, but if you’re like me and aren’t starting a new project every other day, you might just ask yourself “Hey what did I do for this in the past? I think I’ll just copy it from there.”

A year or two ago I rebuilt an old Dell XPS 13 L321X as a development laptop. Here’s the notes I took! Maybe they’ll help you, maybe not.

My personal notes on how to get a new Raspberry Pi ready for action. Written for a Mac, but the general steps should translate to any platform.

So I decided to take the advice of my wise and valued friend, Scott Vandehey, and trade in my custom-built over-engineered static site generator for off-the-shelf parts.

If you’ve used Angular in production, you’ve probably learned the importance of annotating your dependencies when using a minifier like Uglify: when parameter names get mangled, Angular’s implicit annotation feature breaks. The ng-annotate package does a great job at alleviating us of this responsibility, but it may need a little hint when you’re using something like Browserify to organize your code as CommonJS modules.