Chris Padilla/Blog
Writings on Tech, Music, and Creativity.
Much of my technical writing is born from my personal projects.
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Faber — Whispers of the Wind
Deploy New Projects Before Development (.NET Core & Azure)
Tillie Walden Study
Aquarium Sketches
E Minor Cowboy Waltz 🤠
Polymorphism Through Abstract Classes in C#
Lessons From a Year of Blogging
Holding With a Loose Grip
Childhood Home Sketch
Beethoven - German Dance
Iterators in C#
Rob Ingles Singing Lord of the Rings
Deadlines as a Creative Tool
Finishing Sketchbook No. 4
Folkin' in G
Learning Syntax the Fun Way with Toy Problems
Apples
Faber - Energico!
Nurturing Curiosity
TypeScript is Secretly Just C#
Static Methods
Transience
Late Easter Sketches
Barre Chord Improv
New Album — Forest 🌳
How C# Compiles
Practice or Play
Barley and Board
Faber - Ceremony for Peace
Connecting SQL with Python
AI as a Synthesis Tool
The Haps - April 2023
Animal Construction
Faber - Wild Flowers
Many Pots Boiling
The Blue of Distance
Ren'Py v Making a Game with React
SQL Cheat Sheet
Generalizing in Software
Finishing Sketchbook No. 3
Bach - Prelude in C
Did I help someone today?
New Album — Whiteout ❄️
Creative Insights from Miyamoto and Game Composers
Camels and Snails
Alt Guitar Idea
Backing Up Data
Non-Relational Database is a Misleading Name
Creativity as Conversation
Starting a Development Environment from the Command Line
Integration Testing with Redux
Finishing Sketchbook No. 2
Faber - Chanson
Writing Music is Just Problem Solving
Software is Measurably Valuable Creation
Writing is Efficient Creativity
The Gist on Docker
The Haps - March 2023
Louie Zong's Boss Rush & Sketches
Faber — Grand Central Station
Testing and Implementation Details
Testing Encourages Refactoring
Testing Organizes Code
Generating a Sitemap in NextJS
Blog to Find Your People
Chunky Head Construction
Fingerstyle Prelude
Hosting Images for chrisdpadilla dot com
New Album — Spring ☀️
Keeping a Junk Drawer
What Over-Mocking Looks Like
Vehicles as Eras of Life
Still Life and Plant Construction
Aurora Borealis
The Best Time To Be an Autodidactic Polymath
Testing Data Fetching Components + Other Jest Gotcha's
Spy Functions in Jest
The Haps - January 2023
Caught In the ESM Migration
Draw From Life, They Said
Money Jam
Mocking Packages in Jest
Verifying No Duplicate Routes with Jest
Rerouting Dynamic Routes in Next.js
Construction on Plants
Junkyard Jam
Debating Stage Names
New Album - Meditations
Making Next.js Links Flexible
A Love Letter to 2000's YouTube
Birds and Texture Sketches
Major Seven Dreamy Idea
Running Cypress in CI with GitHub Actions
Verify Site Links with Cypress
Have a Coke While You Wait?
A Love Letter to 2000s Websites
Impression Minus Expression Equals Depression
Sketches
Debussy - Rêverie
Terry Pratchett and Real Life Inspirations
Where Does Tailwind Fit In Your App?
What, Why, and How of Design Systems
Pratchett Had Libraries, We Have the Internet
Finishing a Sketchbook
Greensleeves
Blog Tags
Setting Up End-to-End Testing with Cypress
Font-Display and CLS
Testing Software for the Same Reason You Write Notes
2022
Hosting an Express Rendered React App on Elastic Beanstalk
Rendering a React App from an Express Server
Hosting a Node Express App on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Virtual Private Clouds
My Reading Year, 2022
The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
Excluding Internal Traffic in Analytics
Debouncing in React (& JS Functions as Objects)
Migrating Tag Manager to Google Analytics 4
Sustaining Creativity
Creating a Newsletter Form in React
Building a Proxy with AWS Lambda Functions and CORS
Walt Stanchfield & Performing with No Audience
Iwata on What's Worth Doing
The Gist on Authentication
An Overview of Developing Slack Shortcuts
Redux Growing Pains and React Query
Writing Music
Fonts and CLS
Aggregation in MongoDB
Navigating NPM Package Changes
HTML Form Validation is Pretty Good!
I Made A Video Game - AC New Murder
Developing A Game In React
Using Sanity as a Level Maker
Project Management for Game Development
Iwata on Creative People
Customizing Field State in React Final Form
Keeping it 200 — HTTP Status Codes
Cleaning Local Branches
DIY Analytics & CORS
Storing Keyword Arguments in Python Class Instantiation
Adding Background Music to Websites
Error Tracking
Analytics - Accuracy and Ethics
Git Hygiene
Fluency
Geeking Out Over Notion
Automatically Saving Spotify Weekly Playlists
30 on 30
Adding RSS Feed to Next.js with SSR
Balancing New and Familiar Tech
SSG vs SSR vs CSR
My New Website! Details and Tech
Symbolic Links
How to Learn Web Development
Parsing Markdown in Node
Compute! Gazette
Building a Full Stack MERN Events App
Building a Message Board with User Authentication in Express
Building a Full Stack Next.JS E-Commerce App