Peter J. Fitzgibbons

Raise Kids, Raise Bread, Raise Code

  • Blocking AI Attribution in Git Commits

    You own every commit your agent writes, and Claude Code’s `Co-Authored-By` line says otherwise.

  • Embrace Your Inner Artisan

    “You ask why we would bother with this hold equipment when we could feed a computer design into a software-operated machine to do most of the manufacturing for us instead. But where’s the fun in that? We love getting our hands dirty making things and fiddling with little parts to get them to work together.…

  • An ADHD Adventure

    I have been on an ADHD adventure nearly my whole life. My first diagnosis was somewhere in my mid-late single digits (5-7ish). Back then it was ADD, and the only possible relief was Ritalin – as far as “we” know anyway. A lot has changed in the nearly 50 years since then. I have been…

  • DHH – Software’s Warrior

    Warrior? That’s a bold statement, and possibly widely discarded by DHH himself and the industry at-large. Really, though, think through the HerosJourney, what are the basic traits of the Hero – courage, vision, principles. DHH on courage. The article RailsIsOmakase presents an underlying trait of DHH – courage to stand his ground, regardless of the…

  • Rails + Webpack + Webpack-Manifest + React + Babel 7 + HMR – [chunkHash]

    I’m writing this quick one up so you can save the 1.5 hours that I spent debugging this. Terms :HMR – HotModelReload – webpack-dev-server option to trigger browser-auto-refresh when webpack detects filechange (and re-compiles) Here’s what I’m using : Rails 5.2 Webpack-Manifest Gem Yarn Webpack (-cli) Webpack-dev-server @babel/core @babel/preset-react The issue : When running webpack-dev-server…

  • Building an App – EKG

    Building an App – EKG

    In this series, I’ll build an app in step-by-step posts that will produce an EKG (heart monitor) display. The inspiration is the Phillips IntelliVue MP50 (found at my local hospital): Tools we’ll use Pretty much the whole point of this series… to learn some new tools and techniques: Rail 6 – coming from a Rails…

  • BlazorWasm template for Visual Studio 2019

    As of Dotnet Core 3.1 Preview1 (3.1.0-preview1.19506.1), the blazorwasm template is missing from the default manifest. If you’re following FreeCodeCamp – How to create a SPA with Razor pages and Blazor then this is a problem for you! As well, the New Project UI has changed and does not follow the VS 2017 flow. The…

  • How to OStatus-enable Your Application for the Federated Social Web

    This has been newly revived by the W3 Ostatus Community. Enjoy!! https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/Howto

  • Write Better Software : Embrace your Humanity

    This is a bit of a stream-of-conciousness post about thought processes-vs-time. As a software developer, I invariably encounter new challenging problems, algebraic, database, mathematical. I spend time working through these problems, and the larger more complex ones take significant time, hours, many-hours, days. The day problems are the frame of reference that is interesting here.…

  • Heroku ! Fingerprint already exists when key-comment does not match account email

    I recently registered on heroku with my work email address : peter@fitzgibbons.info (obsfuscated) My ssh id_dsa though is signed with my personal email address : peter.fitzgibbons@gmail.com. Heroku doesn’t like this one bit. Following this advice, I created id_heroku_rsa wtih my work-email comment. Still no-joy.  But, this StackOverflow thread left a clue… using the ssh debugging…

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