I am the founder and managing director of Quenk Technologies a software engineering company based in Trinidad & Tobago.
Here is a nice little command to stage multiple modified files in a Git project in one go. git add $(git status -s | cut -c 4-) The -s flag tells the status sub-command to output the results in short-format giving us a letter or "??" to indicate the file status followed…
I recently had the pleasure of using a popular cloud base password database service as part of a migration. Upon sign-up, the website directed me to a page to either install their app or an extension. I was not interested in either but the page did not seem to provide…
After leaving secondary school in 2006, somehow I still managed to find myself traveling to Port of Spain, Monday to Friday every week. Quite often, on that loathsome Maxi Taxi ride I would end up hearing the radio segment of a then well known pastor and owner of a Tertiary…
These days, it seems like everyone wants to have their say on the affairs of black people, perhaps not realizing the harm their uninformed opinions cause. No other continent in modern history has been treated like a helpless child unable to speak for itself or manage its affairs like Africa…
On June 5th 2020 I hosted an impromptu conversation via Jitsi titled "Building A Healthy Black Community In Trinidad and Tobago". My intention with the call, was to channel some of the outrage behind recent statements about black people into a productive conversation. This post is my notes on what…
As a child in the 1990s, the World Book Encyclopedia and Childcraft series provided me with an escape. In one volume, I could learn about the moon and planets of our solar system, in another, the fate of the Dodo, and other victims of humanity. One book talked about various…
At what point do our computers spend most of the time keeping us "safe" vs actually doing the work we bought them for? This question has been popping into my mind more and more lately, most times when I'm using a Windows machine or helping someone who does. It also…
This article [https://blog.logrocket.com/interesting-use-cases-for-javascript-bitwise-operators/] by Glad Chinda [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gladchinda] came up while I was doing some research into ECMAScript numbers and bitwise operations for Potoo 3. It's quite helpful so I'm posting it here lest I forget it. Potoo 3 will be using…
This post was originally supposed to be a quick note about rounding in JavaScript. Further research into the scenario I describe below lead me deep into the land of floating point arithmetic and loss of precision. While running testing for a financial application , I realized some automatically calculated balance totals…
Update: I added another useful post about Unicode thanks to this [https://twitter.com/iStarr/status/1195698464623079424] tweet. Every now and again I find myself reading up on character sets, usually when I'm doing some kind of heavy text processing. When I first started out programming I used to tell…