Converting Cosmos DB Timestamps to JavaScript Dates · Burke Holland
Cosmos DB automactially adds a timestamp field called “_ts”. everytime a document is created or updated. And it looks like this…| burkeholland.github.io
Disclaimer: This article is mostly satire. I don’t think Copilot is going to replace you, nor do I think you should engage in any of the suggested behaviour. Feel free to wildly misinterpret my views to maximize engagement. You’ve probably seen all the articles telling you how to “supercharge your development workflow” with GitHub Copilot. “Write code faster!” they say. “Boost productivity!” “Improve efficiency!” But not one of them addresses the real potential here: repla...| Burke Holland
Prompt engineering - or should I say “Prompt Negotiation” - is (currently) an important part of productivity with AI. Your success working with tools like GitHub Copilot is gonna be directly related to how well you prompt it. GitHub Copilot does try to handle as much of the prompt engineering for you behind the scenes as it can, but just like all your passive agressive relationships, you need to tell it what you want instead of expecting it to just know. It’s not a mind reader. You need...| Burke Holland
I’ve had a lot of blogs over the years. I think I started on Wordpress (as one does) and then moved to Tumblr (yes, that happened) and then to my own site, then to Medium when that was the thing to do and now I’m coming to you from GitHub Pages. Having seen a lot of…stuff…I can tell you that GitHub Pages/Jekyll is all you need. Let me make my case. Markdown is probably the best way to compose prose. We don’t need editors to bold and italicize things for us. Remember Windows Live Wri...| Burke Holland
There’s a lot of debate these days on whether or not AI generated code is a good thing. People are quite worried about the volume of code being written by AI right now, and how that’s going to affect us all in this field down the road. Most developers don’t get to work on new projects - they maintain and build on existing ones. What will it be like to maintain these things when most of that code is written by AI? We could argue that we already have no lack of poorly written, fragile cod...| Burke Holland
My father passed away suddently in April of 2021 almost to the day of his 76th birthday. An otherwise healthy man, he was sitting in the back yard reading and journaling as he often did when began to feel unwell. Returning to the house, he sat down in the living room with my mother in a set of recliners that sit next to each other to google his symptoms. When my mother asked if he was feeling dizzy, he said “The diziness just set in”, and then his heart just stopped. He died right there i...| Burke Holland
Since the birth of ChatGPT, we’ve been fascinated by this new idea of “Prompt Engineering”. Much has been written on this subject with multiple Prompt Engineering tutorial sites springing up and countless videos on the subject. I’m guilty of making them myself.| Burke Holland
All of us have, at some point, stood in front of a mirror looking into our own soul and asked the question that every JavaScript developer is destined to ask before they die - “How do you run Express and React in the same project”?| Burke Holland
One of the first things you are gonna realize after you get started with Codespaces, is that you desperately want your own custom environment setup that you enjoy locally to somehow magically be in Codespaces as well. You can do that using a “dotfiles” repo, and in this post, we’re going to look at how to setup a dotfiles repo, and what quirks you need to be aware of to use it with Codespaces.| Burke Holland
Cosmos DB automactially adds a timestamp field called “_ts”. everytime a document is created or updated. And it looks like this…| burkeholland.github.io
Beast Mode 3.1 is here.What is Beast Mode? Great question! It is a custom chat mode for VS Code that turns your agent into a Beast.👉 Get Beast ModeHere’s how it works. Grab the raw markdown from this gist. In VS Code, go the “agent” dropdown in chat and select “Configure Modes”. Select “Create new custom chat mode file”. Choose “User Data Folder”. (this makes it global to all projects) Paste in the contents from the gist.And now all you have to do is activate Beast Mode f...| burkeholland.github.io
