I’ve been playing Marvel Snap a lot recently and wanted to share screen shots on Discord. However, free Discord has an 8 MB file upload limit. So I created this shortcut Select it from the share ...

I’m working on a few projects using Quasar and Typescript. I got tired of writing my own type guards, and found ts-type-checked which ends up working great. They have an example for webpack, but q...

I’ve been working in Typescript lately using Yup for validating my objects. The site I’m working on has a tree of categories, so I needed a way to model this and validate the objects. I couldn’t ...

I’ve always been annoyed at not being able to create an empty file in the Finder. After way too long, I’ve finally done something about this. You can, too. Open Automator and create a new “Quick A...

I started using *nix and programming in the early nineties. There were no helpers around, so I manually learned to do everything by hand. Same with HTML, or anything else on the Internet1. Up unti...

A lot of things have happened over the last few years, so I figured I’d go ahead and document them. On May 2, 2017 my father, Eino Lilback, Jr passed away. He was 75, and the person I look...

I moved to Morgantown, WV in the fall of 2010. With two partners, I started Agile Monks, a software development company. We shipped a couple minor OS X utilities, three iOS apps, and did some consu...

I’d been using Swinject for a while, but was never satisfied. All I need for DI is the ability to inject into ViewControllers, including subclasses. After way too much time trying to add subclass s...

I was working with sending REST calls to Docker via /var/run/docker.sock and needed to print out the text of the request to send via the file descriptor. This code converts a URLRequest into a CFHT...

I’m always thinking about blogging, but I didn’t realize it had been almost 5 years since I wrote something. Hosting my own site with a generator was way too much hassle. Now that I’ve switched to ...