Chris Griffing

A Collection of Random Ramblings and Eclectic Interests

Custom Zod oneOf validator
published on 2024-06-28
TL;DR: If you want to do validation of something being in a dynamic list of values you need to use . Here is the snippet: If you are curious…
Code Locality Concerns
published on 2023-09-20
Recently, on stream, I needed to focus an element. It wasn't focusing until I kicked the focus to the next iteration of the event loop…
Considering 'Considered Harmful' Essays Still Being Harmful
published on 2023-05-02
Very recently, in the PHP subreddit, someone posted about "Laravel Considered Harmful". Many of the complaints were just that, complaints…
Side Project Hell: It's not as bad as you think
published on 2023-04-10
For people starting out in the software dev world, it can be really easy to fall into "Tutorial Hell". The common wisdom to avoid that is to…
E2E Testing Expo Apps with Detox
published on 2022-01-21
TL;DR: Build your Expo app with EAS and make Detox use that app file instead of Expo. I'm working on a React Native app using the Expo…