Dev log #2: My biggest project yet

March 8, 2025
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More projects

I have started working on another project(which shall remain unnamed at this time). This one is more ambitious and will allow me to tie together a lot of what I have been learning in some academic areas.

Mini project lessons: docker + node_modules

I am trying to get my project to work with docker and boy have I learnt a lot already. First thing's first though—why are my node_modules taking up ALMOST 743mb!? They are accounting for approximately 90% of my entire monorepo. My first lesson was learning about .dockerignore because of that monstrous folder.

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Tools

Here are some tools I came across this week: nb. An asterisk(*) means it's free for students

  • Doppler: for managing secrets
  • Postman VS Code extension
  • Tsup: fast typescript compilation
  • Turborepo: makes your monorepo go brrr
  • Docker: knew it but had never used it

Joplin plugin

I write my blogs on Jopling and copy paste them in order to "publish" them. As such, I want to work on a project to make that plugin so that it autopublishes. I haven't thought about the process yet, but it seems like a fun undertaking

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