We Programmers - A Retrospective
April 13, 2025
My thoughts on Robbert C. Martin's Book, We Programmers
Written by Ben Brougher who lives and works in the Pacific Northwest developing solutions to problems (usually with software). He graduated 2020 from Eastern Washington University as a Computer Science Major, Bachelor of Science (BS), and works engineering and developing software solutions in the enterprise telecommunications industry.
AI is Robbing Jr. Devs
January 12, 2025
LLMs Are Robbing Jr. Devs of Opportunities to Gain Experience
Bash for PowerShell Developers
April 16, 2024
How to write bash if you know a little PowerShell
My Journey to Neovim
January 4, 2024
How and why I switched to Neovim
How to write a JSON Schema
December 15, 2023
How to write a JSON Schema and where they can be used
Consuming RabbitMQ Messages in Go
November 20, 2023
How to use golang to consume a RabbitMQ queue and correctly ack and reject
Covariance and Contravariance
June 18, 2023
What are they, and why are they so helpful?
The withResolvers JavaScript Proposal
April 7, 2023
What is the withResolvers Proposal and how does it work?
ASCII vs UTF-8 vs UTF-16 vs UTF-32
March 24, 2023 (Updated: June 13, 2023)
What are all the different ASCII and UTF-x encodings and why do they matter?
Building a Svelte Stopwatch with the Temporal API
March 12, 2023
How to use the new Temporal API to build a stopwatch in Svelte and TypeScript
How to Use Deno Deploy with Azure Cosmos DB
February 24, 2023
How to create an API using Deno Deploy and Azure Cosmos as a database
Sharing State Between React, Svelte, and Vue in Astro
December 30, 2022
How to make frameworks share state between each other when using them in Astro
I Love Nested Ternaries
December 10, 2022
Why I love them, and why I think they aren't an unreadable mess.
Axios vs. Mande
October 21, 2022
What are they, do you need them, and how do they compare?
Why Not GraphQL?
October 6, 2022
Why I don't use GraphQL for personal or work projects
Switching to microk8s - 6 Months Later
August 18, 2022
How the move from kubeadm to microk8s has worked out over the last 6 months
Creating a .NET Cron Job for Kubernetes
July 29, 2022 (Updated: February 24, 2023)
How to create a .NET 7 Cron Job with C# running in a Kubernetes Cluster
Kubernetes Ingress with microk8s, MetalLB, and the NGINX Ingress Controller
April 14, 2022 (Updated: March 9, 2023)
How to use microk8s to create an ingress using MetalLB and the NGINX ingress controller
How to Use a Vue.js Event Bus
March 31, 2020
What are event busses in Vue.js and how do we go about using them?
Why Use IEnumerable?
September 22, 2019
What is IEnumerable in C#? And why should I use it?
Getting Started With API Development in Flask
September 13, 2019
A Guide to Starting an API With Flask and Python