Joanna - Dream Devourer

Typescript vs English

Typescript vs English

I kept struggling to remember what the type predicate was in Typescript... turns out I just didn't really know what a 'predicate' is in the first place... shakes fist darn

Cross Subdomain Authentication with FeathersJS Client

FeathersJS v4 switched from storing the jwt token in a cookie to localStorage. This was fine when the app stayed on one domain, but when splitting things out into several apps on different subdomains I realised unlike cookies localStorage does not play nicely. I

Create React App Fix for Webpack Symlinks Without Ejecting

When restructuring my project and moving it to use Create React App I've ended up with an odd error for my shared jsx components (I've split the project into two separate apps but some of the styling and UI components will be the same

FeathersJS Sequelize Soft Delete

It might have been the late hour but spent over 1.5h chasing this the other day... and getting tangled up in config and softdelete2 feathers-plus hooks. Turns out to setup soft deletes in FeathersJS using feathers-sequelize you only need the Sequelize built in

2019 New Year Resolutions

2019 New Year Resolutions

Whoa! Is it January already?! I guess it's time to check back on last year's post and setup some unrealistic expectations once again... Last year's goals Since I made a

SSH Broken Pipe When Running in VMWare Workstation

Another note to self post... since this bit me more than once. ssh USER@SERVER ... packet_write_wait: Connection to IP_ADDRESS port 22: Broken pipe Most of the answers point to the ServerAliveInterval or ClientAliveInterval but if you are running the command from

Git Gui Startup Error on Fedora

Recently started getting the following error when trying to run git gui. Googling the issue didn't seem to help much. Error in startup script: bad pad value "2m": must be positive screen distance while executing "grid $w.bitmap $w.msg -in

Example of Sequelize Associations in FeathersJS

Example of Sequelize Associations in FeathersJS

I've been playing around with FeathersJS and one thing that has been hard to find is a concrete example of setting up Sequelize with related tables. Here's an example of

2018 New Year Resolutions

2018 New Year Resolutions

Where has the year gone? It feels like I was just writing last year's post and here we are again. Even worse January is over before I got around to

Week in Review 52/2017

Monday 25th December Album work. Daily Baby Ready to go out :) #dailyBaby A post shared by Joanna Walker (@yish83) on Dec 26, 2017 at 8:48am PST Tuesday 26th December Album work. Approved SMM articles. Paid bills and nursery. Daily Baby First walk outside

Week in Review 51/2017

Monday 18th December Meetup with grandparents. Finished cover for a client. Album work. Daily Baby Car business... #dailyBaby A post shared by Joanna Walker (@yish83) on Dec 19, 2017 at 3:10pm PST Tuesday 19th December Album work. Daily Baby Running with a bowl

Week in Review 50/2017

Monday 11th December Work day. Evening meetup. Album work. This Comic Perfectly Explains the Struggle Moms Have With Work-Life Balance Daily Baby Off to the nursery we go #dailyBaby #earlyMorning A post shared by Joanna Walker (@yish83) on Dec 12, 2017 at 3:33pm

Week in Review 49/2017

Monday 4th December Work day. Photo album work. Daily Baby Nighty, night... #dailyBaby A post shared by Joanna Walker (@yish83) on Dec 5, 2017 at 4:56am PST Tuesday 5th December Baby sensory. Album work. Daily Baby Sneak peek :) #dailyBaby A post shared by

Week in Review 48/2017

Monday 27th November Work day. Warhammer game night. Album work. Daily Baby Move along now... Nothing to see here. I am totally not stealing the remote #dailyBaby #babyVoiceover A post shared by Joanna Walker (@yish83) on Nov 28, 2017 at 12:19pm PST Tuesday

Week in Review 47/2017

Monday 20th November Work day. Last day of my mom and dad's stay, little family gathering in the evening. Daily Baby Cuddles with grandpa :) #dailyBaby A post shared by Joanna Walker (@yish83) on Nov 21, 2017 at 7:08am PST Tuesday 21st November Baby

Week in Review 46/2017

Monday 13th November First proper day back at work. I have to say that the KIT days have been a great help over the last few months and made it a lot easier to jump back in. Although the welcome had me a bit

Week in Review 45/2017

Monday 6th November Finished the final book in the Bobiverse - "All These Worlds" by Dennis E. Taylor. Password reset functionality for WriterPA - email and token generation. Warhammer evening. Daily Baby Watching the neighbour on a frosty morning #dailyBaby A post

Week in Review 44/2017

Monday 30th October Packaged files up for clients. Small update to BCMC cover admin. BCMC Premade. Finished "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor - wow, haven't had this much fun reading SF for a while. One of my

Week in Review 43/2017

Monday 23rd October Royalty payments for authors. Halloween themed premade cover. Finished "Ringworld" by Larry Niven. It's a classic, but it seems to spend way too much time on the scientific ideas and not enough on the plot. While I know it's

Week in Review 41/2017

Monday 9th October Updated friend's website. Cover for a client. Daily Baby Sock off, feet up... #dailyBaby A post shared by Joanna Walker (@yish83) on Oct 9, 2017 at 11:55pm PDT Tuesday 10th October Edited 10 pages of the horror story. Baby sensory

Week in Review 40/2017

Monday 2nd October Edited 6 pages of the horror story. Cover drafts for a client. Weekly update post. Daily Baby Proof, it's only that one Teddy that gets tormented ;) #dailyBaby A post shared by Joanna Walker (@yish83) on Oct 3, 2017 at

Week in Review 39/2017

Getting sick these days really cripples me in so many ways... Spent the second half of the week ill and barely managed to do the necessary work, meaning a lot of work planned for those days got delayed. Thankfully the little guy didn't catch

Week in Review 38/2017

Starting to get really tired of this camping arrangement in my house. Looks like there's at least 1-2 more weeks of work (another 4 days until the kitchen is finished...). While it's been fun to start of with, being confined to the landing space

Week in Review 37/2017

Monday 11th September Catch-up with the electrician. Sequelize models for the welcome wizard related tables. Daily Baby This will one day be all ours, Teddy...#dailyBaby #weeklyTeddy A post shared by Joanna Walker (@yish83) on Sep 12, 2017 at 6:23am PDT Tuesday 12th

Week in Review 36/2017

Monday 4th September Added new premades to the BCMC site. Finished tests for the login page and first welcome wizard page. Warhammer game night. The strange death of a Sherlock Holmes fanatic. Daily Baby Back to nursery... #dailyBaby A post shared by Joanna Walker