A case for taking your attention back from ads, notifications, and the devices designed to steal it.

The Attention Tax

A Neovim plugin for seamless integration with Claude Code CLI

claude-chat.nvim

I built a simple React component that keeps track of all the miles I've walked, run, and cycled throughout the current year. It pulls data from my Strava account and displays the total distance, providing a real-time snapshot of my athletic activities.

Using My Website to Track my Strava Miles

My neovim theme heavily inspired by the original Jellybeans.

Jellybeans.nvim

I learned more writing this post than I expected to.

Working with Arrays in Bash

Idioms, Standard Library Gems, and Snake Traps to Avoid

Python Unveiled

Hello, 2022

A CLI utility that searches for a value in JSON files and prints out paths that point to that value.

jf - A JSON path finder written in Go

How to write a CSV such that Excel doesn't drop leading zeros where they're needed. Postal codes are a great example of when those leading zeros contain valuable information.

Preserving leading zeros when writing CSV files for Excel

A quick post on defining what reliability means in terms of software development.

Software Reliability

Useful for adding a gitignore file later into a project.

Make Git Forget About Files Previously Tracked

Introducing parameter objects into your code.

Refactoring: Parameter Objects

Compiling GO binaries for the synology platform.

Compiling GO for Synology NAS

I Created an Arc Reactor!

My wife loves the movie Pan's Labyrinth. In that movie, there's a lullaby and she's mentioned to me several times that she has always wanted a music box that plays that lullaby.

Building A Custom Music Box (Part 1)

T-Mobile didn't let me pre-order the new iPhone. So I had to write a script to notify me when there was stock nearby.

Automating the Boring Search for an iPhone X

Using Python to write to CSV files stored in S3. Particularly to write CSV headers to queries unloaded from Redshift (before the header option).

How I Used Python and Boto3 to Modify CSV's in AWS S3

This was an incredibly fun project to do and gave me an excuse to not only put our Christmas tree up well before December, but to also keep it well into January. I'm not entirely sure how much this would cost if you had to buy each part separately.

Automating Christmas with Particle, Docker, and Siri

You have multiple choices when implementing a multiple choice field in Django.

Anthony Fox

Software Engineer

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