Latest Notes

• Git and GitHub Source Control

  Source control is essential for programming and Git combined with GitHub is a good solution.
  Use this page as a quick reference for often used scenarios.

• GitHub Projects

  I prefer a project board to visualize work over a traditional "to do list" and calendar/reminders. There is a reason modern software development has evolved to use a project board.
  Using boards for everything from goal management to family chores is effective to organize yourself and your team. A hand drawn task board with sticky notes around the home office and on the refrigerator could be good.

• Cypress Closures (Nesting) vs. Aliasing

  By default, Cypress uses chaining and closures to gather values needed for testing.

• Postman Bearer Tokens

  Each API request will need to use some sort of authentication. Postman has an Authorization tab for every collection, folder, or request.

• Cypress Beginner Tutorial Part One

  Cypress.io (Cypress) is a stack agnostic browser testing tool that is free and open source.
  It is used for automated end-to-end / integration / scenario testing on the front end.

• Pages Test Page / Jekyll Markdown Guide

  Original Date: 2021-05-04

• GitHub Pages Notes

  This documentation is for creating a static web page on GitHub. A quick search will give you the official "GitHub Docs" documentation. I will only cover things that were not clear in the documentation and try to make things pithy for future use.