Squeal is a library designed to allow querying raw SQL directly from the front-end without compromising security. This document intends to formalize the design for the Squeal library and eventually become a complete specification.

I recently did some work on a VS Code extension whose purpose is to handle rich pastes. It prompted me to survey different copy-pasting libraries and the state of the NPM ecosystem as a whole.

While Google does publish scripts to help with the installation, it requires a non-trivial depth of knowledge to do right. After struggling with it for many hours, I wrote a guide for personal future reference.

I recently returned to those notes to entirely automate the process using GitHub Actions. The work is open-source and available on GitHub.

I like DevOps. More specifically, I like good DevOps. For example, I love Heroku host a few dozen free apps there. Salesforce must be raking in boatloads of cash from every business that also loves Heroku, but I can’t justify spending $7 per app per month. I have 21 apps. It would cost nearly 150$ per month to run them on the hobby tier. I tried to recreate something similar to Heroku for years, and I was pretty happy with where it got me.

IDEs will give you the world as long as you stay inside of it. VS Code makes file management a breeze in your workspace but bringing in anything from the outside world will not be frictionless. Inserting a screenshot into a markdown document within VS Code is a multi-step process:

1. Take the screenshot
2. Save the screenshot in a folder
3. Locate the screenshot in file explorer
4. Drag-drop the screenshot into VS Code
5. Reference the screenshot from the markdown document

Nowhere near as seamless as Microsoft Word handles pasting images. What if there was an extension that could handle pastes directly?