Fixing VSCode Ghost Text 👻Uninstall (don’t just disable) Codeium from your VSCode extensions if Copilot inline suggestions aren’t working As an employee of Morehouse School of Medicine in a research-related position, I qualify for GitHub Education, which in turn gave me free...1PBDec 24, 2024 · 2 min readblog.benhammondmusic.tech
Making E2E Tests Harder, Better, Faster, and Stronger💡 In short: use Playwright for end-to-end testing of your web app; don’t sleep on its built-in code generation and reporting features; aim to target stable, deployed URLs when possible. What is Playwright? Playwright is an exceptional package that...PDec 9, 2023 · 8 min readblog.benhammondmusic.tech
Eliminating over 3,000 DOM elements and improving accessibility along the wayWith the Health Equity Tracker, we display a lot of data visualizations including choropleth maps (where data is represented visually with color and shade). Unfortunately, these types of graphics are inherently inaccessible for visually impaired user...Oct 5, 2023 · 2 min readblog.benhammondmusic.tech
Shaving hours off a Pandas scriptCrunching a few hundred million lines of data At the Health Equity Tracker, the largest dataset we work with is a case-level set provided by the CDC with every COVID-19 infection in the United States, along with additional information including race,...1BSep 14, 2023 · 7 min readblog.benhammondmusic.tech
Ignore GitHub Whitespace DiffsIn Chrome:1. ⌘+D to make a new bookmarklet in your bookmarks toolbar2. Name it whatever, like "Hide PR Whitespace"3. Paste javascript:document.location+="?w=1" as the URL4. Click it whenever GitHub is showing you whitespace diff Ideally, everyone in...1BApr 26, 2023 · 1 min readblog.benhammondmusic.tech
