Broonix

@broonix.bsky.social

Developer, Remote worker, Proud Canadian, Amateur Guitarist, Dog lover, Hockey fan, Racing fan. Tweets, opinions, rants are 100% my own. https://rants.broonix.ca

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Longform Stories

Creating an AI Worklog

May 22·1 min read·147 words

Migrating my blog to Astro (with Claude)

May 20·2 min read·336 words

Brooksmarks Feb 14th 2020

Feb 14·1 min read·58 words

Setting up source maps (NextJS 9, BugSnag)

Jan 4·2 min read·298 words

Brooksmarks January 2nd 2020

Jan 2·1 min read·60 words

NextJS: Fallback image

Aug 31·1 min read·154 words

Brooksmarks Aug 18th 2019

Aug 12·1 min read·60 words

NextJS & Heroku: HTTPS by default

Aug 5·1 min read·178 words

Remote working: Six months in

Mar 9·2 min read·394 words

Styling with CSS variables

Feb 16·3 min read·448 words

More notes on migrating my blog to Gatsby

Feb 2·2 min read·236 words

New Blog! Powered by Gatsby

Jan 28·1 min read·184 words

Displaying Expo Snacks Gists in React and Gatsby

Jan 5·2 min read·290 words

Some notes on migrating my blog to Gatsby

Jan 1·4 min read·626 words

Font Shadows in React-Native

May 20·1 min read·50 words

Setting up Google Home on a Google Apps for Business domain

Dec 30·1 min read·126 words

Adding coverage reports to a React Create App using Coveralls.io

Oct 14·2 min read·338 words

Building and Deploying a React Create App to GitHub Pages Using TravisCI

Oct 13·3 min read·409 words

Getting started with React Navigation

Aug 20·2 min read·382 words

AppleTV 4 Netflix UI Review

Jul 8·2 min read·284 words

Apple TV 4 Review

May 20·2 min read·271 words

Git status in your BASH prompt

Mar 22·2 min read·201 words

Upgrading to react-router v4

Mar 19·2 min read·371 words

Getting Started with React Native and Redux

Feb 26·3 min read·593 words

An Another New Year

Jan 2·2 min read·379 words

Git commands everyone should know

Dec 30·3 min read·495 words

Netflix and it's missing content

Dec 23·2 min read·330 words

New URL!

Dec 18·1 min read·56 words

One Week Post Remote

Nov 26·2 min read·278 words

No longer working Remotely

Nov 12·2 min read·373 words

My thoughts on the new MacBook Pros

Nov 6·4 min read·645 words

Gource: Visualize a Repositories Commits

Nov 3·2 min read·250 words

Dotsub: Any Video any Language

Nov 2·4 min read·650 words

Exciting new opportunity

Oct 27·1 min read·117 words

Upgrading to react-router v4

Oct 9·3 min read·436 words

Animations with React

Oct 2·1 min read·187 words

Development Workflow

Sep 18·2 min read·308 words

Renaming Database Constraints with Liquibase

Sep 13·1 min read·172 words

Selenium Screenshots in Continuous Integration

Sep 8·2 min read·265 words

Great Developers are Passionate but in Different ways

Sep 1·2 min read·317 words

Getting started with create-react-app

Aug 13·2 min read·302 words

Dependency Hell

Aug 4·2 min read·384 words

Simple HTTP Server for any folder via python

Jul 27·1 min read·51 words

Continuous Deployment with Spring-boot and Travis

Jul 16·2 min read·248 words

Deploying Spring-Boot to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Jul 7·3 min read·412 words

Testing with React context

Jun 29·1 min read·130 words

React: Context

Jun 22·2 min read·220 words

React: Containers and Components

Jun 14·2 min read·342 words

Oculus CV1 Review

Jun 4·4 min read·783 words

Self Driving Cars vs Air Travel

May 29·3 min read·420 words

Company Retreat

May 21·1 min read·79 words

Creating a videojs plugin

May 14·4 min read·739 words

Testing a NPM package locally

May 9·1 min read·81 words

Star Wars intro in CSS

May 8·4 min read·602 words

What is planned for ES7?

Apr 30·2 min read·299 words

Advertisers: It's not me, it's you

Apr 23·3 min read·542 words

Linting in ES6

Apr 16·2 min read·310 words

Porting React Components to ES6

Apr 9·1 min read·191 words

The Threat

Apr 2·2 min read·320 words

Happy Easter

Mar 26·1 min read·55 words

Machines will take your job

Mar 19·3 min read·416 words

I'm still bullish on Twitter

Mar 12·3 min read·491 words

Sim-Racing: My favorite hobby

Mar 5·2 min read·343 words

Facebook is getting Emotional

Feb 27·2 min read·336 words

I stand with Apple

Feb 20·1 min read·181 words

On Uber...

Feb 13·2 min read·326 words

Virtual Reality is the Future

Feb 6·3 min read·443 words

Automated Acceptance Testing with Selenium

Jan 30·2 min read·283 words

Java: Code coverage with Gradle and JaCoCo

Jan 22·3 min read·424 words

Remote working: 6+ Years Later!

Jan 14·3 min read·461 words

XKCD Substitutions [Chrome Extension]

Jan 8·3 min read·457 words

Building a Universal Translator

Jan 1·2 min read·352 words

Happy Holidays!

Dec 26·1 min read·24 words

Migrating from Refluxjs to Redux

Dec 18·2 min read·323 words

Migrating to Travis-CI from Bamboo

Dec 12·3 min read·447 words

Are you linting yet?

Dec 3·1 min read·186 words

Practice Practicing

Nov 29·2 min read·317 words

Spring-Boot: Building Bootstrap with Gulp and Gradle

Nov 21·4 min read·627 words

Updating GitHub Status from Bamboo

Nov 14·2 min read·264 words

Why a blog?

Nov 11·1 min read·134 words