Keith Wagner

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September 2023 Check-In

The fall season has begun. The weather has started to chill which is thankful since our AC still needs repairing or replacement.

Unit Testing and React Hook Form

One of my side projects uses React Hook Form for my forms and ran into some speed bumps while building tests for the individual components. I figure I can’t be the only one so I figure I’ll share my solution.

Personal Sites are Never "Done"

One of these days I'm going to stop itching to redesign my site.

Staying Silent is Political Too

I follow Chris Ferdinandi's blog Go Make Things and he had a recent post, I follow you for tech, not politics that resonated with me.

Digging Into Blazor - Forms

One of the regular things you have to do when building interactive websites and applications is to build forms to allow users to enter data. In this post, I’m going to show how to build a simple form in Blazor.

One More Time by Blink-182

A song that's been on heavy repeat is blink-182's latest single One More Time. I love the song for so many reasons.

Analog Versus Digital

Over the last several months I've been trying to decide how I want to keep my notes and my journals. I've gone back and forth between using a notes app and a moleskine notebook.

Tackling My Podcast Queue

As I write this, my podcast queue is sitting at 1,136 episodes. Wowzers! If I listen to every episode in its entirety at normal speed would take almost 40 days. I might have a problem, and I think I need to come up with a way to help tackle this.

My Blogging Workflow

Since my plan to start writing more will undoubtedly cause more posts on my blog, I figured I'd write down my general workflow on how I go about writing some of my more in-depth blog posts. It might sound familiar, but thought it might help someone who might be starting out.

The Strange Inability to Finish a Project

I'm sure I'm not the only one, but I seem to be unable to finish a project. I have a handful side projects I've been puttering around with, but haven't been able to see them through to completion.

Writing Everyday

Recently I started reading Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman. It’s a collection of short stories he’s written. At the beginning, he went through all the stories and briefly touched on each one of them. On one of them he described an interaction between a friend of his, and Ray Bradbury, author of Farenheit 451 among others. One line stood out to me.

Summer is Fading

Summer here in the Northeast USA is winding down and I couldn't be happier.
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