I'm writing an Express app, integrated with Auth0 for authentication, that has JSON Web Token (JWT) secured endpoints. If you're in the same boat and want to unit test JWT secured endpoints, look no further. I'm not going to go into the nuts and
This new decade has got me thinking a lot about not only the past one, but the one before that too. The year 2000 feels both ancient and as if it was just yesterday. Personally, a lot's happened since Y2k. It took stints in one community college and
Lately I've been migrating an ancient Jenkins CI system over to GitHub Actions/Workflows. One of our Node.js package's tests rely on being able to hit local MongoDB and etcd containers. To get set up for running unit tests within our Node.js package our
I bombed a job interview yesterday. It was rough. My work is in software engineering, a field with notoriously difficult interviews. Typically, interviewees are asked to code solutions to tough problems (which usually have little to do with the day to day work) while being judged by individuals who have
I've been working on a side project as a means to bone up on React and GraphQL. GraphQL in particular has been a struggle. Coming from the world of trad REST endpoints, GraphQL's paradigm seems powerful but it's also a bit of a mindfuck.