Read my blog posts about tech, business, politics and life.https://sunny.gg/https://sunny.gg/post/2016-10-12-build-a-powerful-laptop-for-development-on-the-cheap/https://sunny.gg/post/2016-10-12-build-a-powerful-laptop-for-development-on-the-cheap/Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2016-11-24-a-usb-c-world/https://sunny.gg/post/2016-11-24-a-usb-c-world/Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2017-02-22-personal-websites-keep-it-simple/https://sunny.gg/post/2017-02-22-personal-websites-keep-it-simple/Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2018-03-01-vscode-debugging-with-custom-jest-configurations/https://sunny.gg/post/2018-03-01-vscode-debugging-with-custom-jest-configurations/Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2018-07-01-bootstrapping-a-react-native-application-with-react-native-init-with-android-studio/https://sunny.gg/post/2018-07-01-bootstrapping-a-react-native-application-with-react-native-init-with-android-studio/Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2019-05-27-browser-bookmarks-suck-so-i-built-an-extension-to-make-them-suck-less/https://sunny.gg/post/2019-05-27-browser-bookmarks-suck-so-i-built-an-extension-to-make-them-suck-less/Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2019-07-11-build-a-chrome-extension-using-reactjs-and-webpack-part-1/https://sunny.gg/post/2019-07-11-build-a-chrome-extension-using-reactjs-and-webpack-part-1/Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2021-02-07-building-sunnygolovine-pt-1/https://sunny.gg/post/2021-02-07-building-sunnygolovine-pt-1/I recently rebuilt my personal website. In this part I'll talk about some of the decisions I made.Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2021-02-08-building-sunnygolovine-pt-2/https://sunny.gg/post/2021-02-08-building-sunnygolovine-pt-2/In my last post I talked about some of the decisions I made when building my site. In this post I'll talk about the architectureMon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2021-02-09-building-sunnygolovine-pt-3/https://sunny.gg/post/2021-02-09-building-sunnygolovine-pt-3/With most of the site up, in this post I want to talk about landing pages and my blogging workflowWed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2021-02-17-building-a-guestbook/https://sunny.gg/post/2021-02-17-building-a-guestbook/I've always wanted to have an old school guestbook for my site. I finally built one using Netlify Functions and Github Gist.Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2021-04-17-keeping-js-projects-updated/https://sunny.gg/post/2021-04-17-keeping-js-projects-updated/A few tips and tricks to keeping dependencies in your JS project freshWed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2022-01-27-styled-components-storybook/https://sunny.gg/post/2022-01-27-styled-components-storybook/How to setup Storybook to work nicely with Styled Components custom theme.Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2021-03-17-fuzzy-git-branch-checkout/https://sunny.gg/post/2021-03-17-fuzzy-git-branch-checkout/If you use JIRA at work then your git branches likely look like PROJ-12345-description. Here's a little script you can use to checkout these branches quickerWed, 17 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2022-07-09-migrating-gatsby-to-next/https://sunny.gg/post/2022-07-09-migrating-gatsby-to-next/Instead of rebuilding my website this year, I migrated it from Gatsby to NextJS. Here's how that went.Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2022-07-12-typed-netlify-cms-cfg/https://sunny.gg/post/2022-07-12-typed-netlify-cms-cfg/Wouldn't it be nice to have your NetlifyCMS configuration in JS rather than YAML? Here's how you can do that.Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2022-09-22-file-based-routing/https://sunny.gg/post/2022-09-22-file-based-routing/Frameworks like Gatsby and NextJS use file-based routing for "simplicity", but they need to offer a programmatic routing method.Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2022-10-02-better-zoning/https://sunny.gg/post/2022-10-02-better-zoning/The white picket fence may be in the American Dream, but the zoning policy behind it is destroying our cities and making us less healthy.Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2022-10-28-building-a-better-guestbook/https://sunny.gg/post/2022-10-28-building-a-better-guestbook/Last year I built an old school style guestbook for my website. This year I built it again, taking in all the lessons learned to make it even better.Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2022-11-17-how-much-taxes/https://sunny.gg/post/2022-11-17-how-much-taxes/I got five letters from the IRS about my 2020 taxes. And I still have no clue if I owe them taxes...Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2023-07-27-three-links-wiki-game/https://sunny.gg/post/2023-07-27-three-links-wiki-game/A wikipedia game inspired by cards against humanityThu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2024-02-16-success-takes-time/https://sunny.gg/post/2024-02-16-success-takes-time/One piece of advice I would give to my younger self is success takes a long time.Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2024-10-03-my-4-runner/https://sunny.gg/post/2024-10-03-my-4-runner/With cars getting ever more technologically advanced, I've never loved my dumb 4Runner more.Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2024-10-21-friction-and-agility-the-edge-startups-have/https://sunny.gg/post/2024-10-21-friction-and-agility-the-edge-startups-have/Engineering agility is the most underrated advantage that startups have.Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2024-11-05-emulation/https://sunny.gg/post/2024-11-05-emulation/I think I've finally scratched the itch to play my childhood video games.Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2025-01-17-done-with-airpods/https://sunny.gg/post/2025-01-17-done-with-airpods/I used to love Airpods and thought they were the best product Apple made besides the iPhone. But now I'm not so sure.Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2025-02-15-grand-theft-auto/https://sunny.gg/post/2025-02-15-grand-theft-auto/The story of how my parents telling me I can't play Grand Theft Auto 20 years ago eventually led me into technology.Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2025-03-11-keeping-your-js-project-up-to-date/https://sunny.gg/post/2025-03-11-keeping-your-js-project-up-to-date/How to keep your Javascript (or Typescript) project up to date - the 2025 edition.Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2025-04-04-new-thinkpad/https://sunny.gg/post/2025-04-04-new-thinkpad/I've had great luck over the years buying used laptops but this most recent purchase is my most audacious yet.Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2025-04-14-tailwind-v4-monorepo/https://sunny.gg/post/2025-04-14-tailwind-v4-monorepo/How to configure Tailwind so you can import components from other packagesMon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2025-09-23-kenesis-mwave/https://sunny.gg/post/2025-09-23-kenesis-mwave/I recently bought a Kenesis mWave keyboard and it might be my favorite keyboard yet.Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2025-04-15-go-slack-yourself/https://sunny.gg/post/2025-04-15-go-slack-yourself/Rubber duck debugging in 2025.Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://sunny.gg/post/2025-02-10-bad-for-business-smart-for-society/https://sunny.gg/post/2025-02-10-bad-for-business-smart-for-society/Companies like SpaceX, AstroForge and Boom Supersonic may not be the best deal for investors looking for a return, but it's a great deal for humanity.Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT