Thomas Hunter II
Welcome to my personal blog! I'm an international speaker, a published author, and a software engineer specializing in Node.js. I post pretty regularly on Mastodon as @tlhunter@mastodon.social, and a lot of my open source work is available on GitHub at github.com/tlhunter. I also dabble in photography.
My Books
Recent Photos Photography Portfolio
Featured Posts
- 🐩 mig: The Universal Database Migration Runner
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 Node.js Modules, Packages, and SemVer
- , 8 min read
- 🐩 Zero-downtime deploys with DigitalOcean, GitHub, and Docker
- , 15 min read
- 🐩 PS2 RPI4 Part I: Restoration
- , 6 min read
- 📔 Elpizia
- , 24 min read
- 🐩 On Migrating from Wordpress to Static Markdown
- , 9 min read
- 🐩 Why you should avoid ORMs (with examples in Node.js)
- , 14 min read
- 🐩 Redis and Node Part 1: The Basics
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 HTTP API Design Part 1: Requests
- , 8 min read
- 🐩 HTML5 Mobile Apps, Part 1: Development and Debugging
- , 7 min read
Timeline
- 🐩 Running Debian Bookworm on a 13" AMD Framework Laptop
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 The Ultimate Fujifilm X-E1 Camera Guide
- , 13 min read
- 🐩 Using an iPod Classic Monochrome 4th Gen in 2024
- , 5 min read
- 📺 Map Buddy Product Retrospective
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 My Photography is Featured at Philz Coffee in Potrero Hill
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Introducing GenAI in O’Reilly Answers
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 My Photography is Featured at Ikon Coffee
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Photography is a Loss of Dimension, Senses, and Fidelity
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 A Cheap and Pocketable Camera in 2024
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Enabling English on a Japanese Panasonic Lumix GX1
- , 8 min read
- 🐩 After your first 10,000 Photographs
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Repairing a Minolta X-370 Light Leak
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 Getting into Photography on a Budget in 2023
- , 9 min read
- 🐩 PS2 RPI4 Part IV: Conclusion
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 How to file a CCPA complaint against Reddit
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Welcome to your Chat Bot
- , 11 min read
- 🐩 Emulating Windows XP on Linux in 2023
- , 3 min read
- 📺 How NOT to Measure Latency by Gil Tene
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 mig: The Universal Database Migration Runner
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 Setting Open Graph Tags without Server Side Rendering
- , 11 min read
- 🐩 Detecting if a PWA/TWA is Installed
- , 4 min read
- 🎙️ Node.js Package Management at UtahJS
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Distributed Systems with Node.js: Humble Books Bundle
- , 1 min read
- 🎙️ GitHub Actions for Node.js Apps at DevOps.js
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 The Death of a Node.js Process
- , 7 min read
- 🎙️ Logging, Metrics, and Tracing with Node.js at Node Congress
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Go v1.15.8 vs Node v14.15.5 Microbenchmark
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Node.js Modules, Packages, and SemVer
- , 8 min read
- 🐩 Zero-downtime deploys with DigitalOcean, GitHub, and Docker
- , 15 min read
- 🐩 PS2 RPI4 Part III: Underway
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 PS2 RPI4 Part II: Internals
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 PS2 RPI4 Part I: Restoration
- , 6 min read
- 📔 Elpizia
- , 24 min read
- 🐩 Installing the Node.js Binary Archive on Linux
- , 1 min read
- 📔 The Apex Consumer
- , 15 min read
- 🐩 Go v1.13.3 vs Node v12.12.0 Microbenchmark
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Cheap and Portable Writing Device in 2019
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Fixing the Massdrop AKG K7XX Squeak
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 On using Service Workers with Static Content
- , 9 min read
- 🐩 Nine Volt Daisy Chain
- , 4 min read
- 📔 Cobalt Caliber
- , 36 min read
- 🐩 JavaScript Symbols: But Why?
- , 8 min read
- 🐩 Node.js Task Runners: Are they right for you?
- , 8 min read
- 🐩 Introducing Package Diff
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Protecting your JavaScript APIs
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Treating OpenBox like a Tiling WindowManager
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 The Increasing Need for Regulation of the Software Industry
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 Removing gVim Right and Bottom Borders
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Common API mistakes and how to avoid them
- , 13 min read
- 🐩 On Migrating from Google Analytics
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Review of the iClever Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Books I'm Reading to Become a Better Writer
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Compromised npm Package: event-stream
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 17 Pounds in 44 Days: My Adventure with Keto
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 On Migrating from Wordpress to Static Markdown
- , 9 min read
- 📔 The Monster in the Basement
- , 13 min read
- 🐩 Why you should avoid ORMs (with examples in Node.js)
- , 14 min read
- 🐩 Essential Firefox Tweaks
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 JavaScript Object Type Coercion
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 Advice for Technical Public Speaking: Part 3
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Advice for Technical Public Speaking: Part 2
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 Advice for Technical Public Speaking: Part 1
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Go v1.10.3 vs Node v10.6.0 Microbenchmark
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Recent Concerns about Node.js Security
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Node.js and Lambda Three Part Series
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Developing Cobalt Dungeon using Phaser and Cordova
- , 11 min read
- 🐩 Cobalt Dungeon Dev 01: Creating a New Room
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Cobalt Dungeon for iOS is now available
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Cobalt Dungeon for Android is now available
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Cobalt Dungeon Dev 02: Creating a Bitmap Font for Phaser
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Cobalt Dungeon Dev 03: FL Studio Overview
- , 1 min read
- 🎙️ The Long Road to Async/Await in JavaScript at SF Node
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 I'm working on a mobile game called Cobalt Dungeon
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Support me on Patreon
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Twitter Plays Zork: @DemocraticZork
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Go v1.9.1 vs Node v8.9.0 Microbenchmark
- , 2 min read
- 🎙️ The Long Road to Async/Await in JavaScript at NodeConfAr17
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 What have I been up to? Late 2017 Edition
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Is it time to replace REST with RPC?
- , 8 min read
- 🎙️ Enterprise Conversation Episode 14: OpenTable with Thomas Hunter
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Refactoring a Node.js codebase using Async/Await
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 Random Meetup Attendee Bookmarklet
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 2017: A Central Europe Odyssey
- , 27 min read
- 🐩 Redis and Node Part 4: Lua Scripting
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Redis and Node Part 3: Atomicity with MULTI
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Redis and Node Part 2: Shared State
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Redis and Node Part 1: The Basics
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Digital Nomad: Inventory Advice
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 HTTP API Design Part 4: API Standards
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 HTTP API Design Part 3: Bodies
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 HTTP API Design Part 2: Responses
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 HTTP API Design Part 1: Requests
- , 8 min read
- 🐩 Advanced Microservices
- , 2 min read
- 🎙️ Node.js, Redis, and You! at RedisConf17
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Linux Mint Disable "Recently Used"
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xen stuck on "Loading Initial Ramdisk"
- , 1 min read
- 🎙️ Service Discovery With Node.js and Consul at SF Node
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 A Holistic Approach to Microservices
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Running a Node.js process on Debian as a Systemd Service
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 My Trip to Japan
- , 18 min read
- 🐩 Enabling Yubikey U2F support in Linux
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 The JavaScript Event Loop Presentation (2016 Edition)
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Installing Linux Mint on an XPS13 (9350)
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 The only bad thing about ES7 Async/Await
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Upgrading to the XPS 13 (9350)
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 NextPlayer: A Node.js module for managing player turns
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 HTML5 Mobile Apps, Part 5: Ecosystem Opinions
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 HTML5 Mobile Apps, Part 4: Live Operations
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 HTML5 Mobile Apps, Part 3: Distribution
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 HTML5 Mobile Apps, Part 2: Performance
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 HTML5 Mobile Apps, Part 1: Development and Debugging
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Strategic Game of Life: Mobile Edition
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Upgrading Linode II: Xen to KVM
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 The long road to Async/Await in JavaScript
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Tips for Building Mobile Games in HTML5
- , 13 min read
- 🐩 Gridloche: Realtime Multiplayer Go-Like with RPG Elements
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Upgrading Linode
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Arpad: An ELO Ranking System for Node.js
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Consumer Centric API Design
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Running a Node.js process on Debian as an init.d Service
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 What have I been up to? Early 2014 Edition
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Principles of good RESTful API Design
- , 16 min read
- 🐩 Book Review: Debian 7: System Administration Best Practices
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 JavaScript and Canvas version of Conway's Game of Life
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Only Push/Pull Current GIT Branch
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Remove OpenDNS from Linux Mint
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Enable Emoji fonts on Debian / Ubuntu / Mint Linux
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Border Patrol Saga
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Cheating at Cookie Clicker
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Recursively download website files using WGET
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Instant Backbone.js Application Development
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Book Review: Hands-on Testing with PHPUnit How-to
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Installing Redis on Debian as a Service
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Fixing Homebrew
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 SSH into a machine with a dynamic IP
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Setting up a Security Camera for a Linux Webcam
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Track IP Address using DD-WRT + CRON + WGET
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Safely Parse Complex Objects and Arrays in PHP
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 WordPress GET Variables with lighttpd
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 The JavaScript Event Loop [Presentation]
- , 10 min read
- 🐩 How to "Burn" an ISO to a USB drive in OS X
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Generate OAuth Consumer Key and Shared Secrets using PHP
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Set opendiff (FileMerge) as your git diff tool on OS X
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Lansing Startup Weekend
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 SleekMVC, my PHP Framework, gets Routing support
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Enable PHP Mail on OS X Mountain Lion
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 GeoLocation based Communication with Node.js, Redis
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 What WordPress 4.x Could Be
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 I turned on a light
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Programmer Religious Wars and the Abstraction Gradient
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Node App Inspired by Daniel Suarez' Book Daemon
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Wacom Bamboo Splash Review
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 Subdomains and Google Apps with Gandi and Linode
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 Client-Side Terrain Tile Representation Algorithm
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 A Better Debian SSH Login Message
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Transitioning from MediaTemple to Linode
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Install Node.js on Debian 6
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Visual Git History Log in Terminal Window
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Using authbind with Node.js
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Fun Timing Game in Canvas
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Respond to JSON or XML requests from a Node.js API
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Drop Root Privileges in Node.js
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 The Upcoming Parallel Digital Universe
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Could JavaScript support Parallelism like in Haskell?
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 All Hands Active Board Member
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Configurable Object to XML Converter for Node.js
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 GitHub Connection Timed Out
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 CouchDB and PHP Web Development
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Node.js Convert JSON to XML, Pluralize
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Backup External Music Collection using Rsync
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Fixing ApacheBench on OS X Lion
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Spaghetti Architecture and the Importance of Starting Over
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 Review of OpenShift Node.js Support
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 Raspberry Pi with Tons of Hardware
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Cobalt Calibur 3 Open Source
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Copying OpenIndiana Image onto USB in OS X
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 My First Arduino Project
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Code School Review
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 Series or Parallel Power-Source Switch
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Extended Pigpen Cipher to Include Numbers
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Auto Mount External Drives in Debian
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Per-User Password Hashing Algorithms
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Recursively Delete Files by Extension
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Recursively convert OGGs to MP3s
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Node.js GPS Module
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 A Primer on Web Caching
- , 6 min read
- 🐩 The Future of Augmented Reality
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 PHP + Apache Stack vs Node.js
- , 8 min read
- 🐩 OS X Wireless Control from the CLI
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Scan for Computers on Local Network with Nmap
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 SSHing into Arch Linux Raspberry Pi
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Updating Pacman on the Raspberry Pi
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Linux CLI apps should have a --json flag
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Gracefully Kill Node.js App from Ctrl+C
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Move special OS X user folders to external drive
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Determine Wireless Encryption Type
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Express.js Pass-Through Directory
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Bad Mount Point Input/Output Error
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 MacBook Pro with SSD and Hard Drive
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Git SSL Errors
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 NPM SSL Errors
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Settling In to a New Mac
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Female Voice using eSpeak
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Know your Wireless Cards!
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Speech Synthesis and Bluetooth with Node.js
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Suppressing SSH MOTD Messages
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Re-Map Caps Lock key to Esc in OS X
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Why Android should switch to Go
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 NERF Gun Laser Instructions
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Node.js Robotics Software Suite
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 RedBubble Poor Product Quality
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Creating Self Executable PHP Scripts
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Open Sourcing Facebook App, Squirrelify
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Open Sourcing EVE Crawler
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Cobalt Calibur: Roadmap
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Ignore SSL Errors with NPM Node Package Manager
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Pitfalls when Renaming your GitHub Account
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Using .htaccess to Prevent www Subdomain
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Global gitignore vs repository gitignore
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Modded Laser NERF Gun
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Building a Really Simple Node.js Module
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Linux Force Dismount
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Moving Content to a new Domain and Keeping SEO
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Hiding Files and Folders in OS X Finder
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Open Source AJAX Game Engine
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Why Node.js is awesome: A short history of web applications
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Tracking Backbone.js "Page Views" with Mixpanel
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 The Shark Fin Conjecture
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Why the MPAA and RIAA will soon be gone
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 Cobalt Calibur 3.0: Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, Backbone.js
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 Xpath Expressions Explained
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Tech Startup Entrepreneur Books
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Force or Prevent WWW subdomain with lighttpd
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 How to generate a Self Signed SSL Certificate for lighttpd
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Tumblr-like Template Syntax PHP Library
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Really simple SSH proxy (SOCKS5)
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Using Swipes in MacVIM in OS X
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Simple PHP Namespace Friendly Autoloader Class
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Scheduling a daily Cron task in Debian to check external IP
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Building Custom OS X Dashboard Widgets
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 How to login via SSH Without a Password
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Delay command execution in X-Chat
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Submitting Multi-Dimensional Array Data to PHP
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 lighttpd configuration to redirect subdomains
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 MySQL REPLACE vs INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Apache2 Outperforming lighttpd 1.5
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Installing lighttpd on Ubuntu 10.04
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 PHP / MySQL Web Application Migration Steps
- , 8 min read
- 🐩 Time Differences between PHP and MySQL
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Dynamic Form Actions using Different Buttons
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Read GET URL variables using JavaScript
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) Study Guide Links
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Accessing CodeIgniter Session Data using External Scripts
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 PHP cURL cookies not saving on Windows
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Convert ASCII to UTF-8 using VBA
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Web Spidering with PHP
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 FL Studio Piano Roll Tutorial
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 FL Studio Comprehensive Mixer Interface Overview
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Polymorphism, Abstract Classes, and Interfaces in PHP
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 FL Studio Automations
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 FL Studio Interface Overview
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Introduction to CSS: Selectors and Relationships Explained
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Preloading CSS Hover Images
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Simple AJAX
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Password Encryption, Hashing, Salting Explained
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Create Windows Vista like buttons using Photoshop
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Web Image Formats Size and Quality Comparison
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Creating Seamless Textures using Photoshop
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Introduction to Photoshop Blending Options
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 CSS Image Button Rollovers
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 CSS Box Model differences in Firefox and Internet Explorer
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Database Administration using phpMyAdmin
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Free Notepad++ Web Developers Theme
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Pagerank and higher search engine rankings explained
- , 4 min read
- 🐩 Change PHP Timezones
- , 7 min read
- 🐩 Setting up VHOSTS using XAMPP/Apache in Windows
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Changing MySQL Default Character Sets
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 Generating Password Protected ZIP Files using PHP
- , 1 min read
- 🐩 MySQL Fulltext Search Ignored Words
- , 3 min read
- 🐩 Data Hiding in a Word Document
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 PHP Navigation System using Single Entry Point
- , 5 min read
- 🐩 Search Engine Friendly Exit Counter
- , 2 min read
- 🐩 Clean user data using PHP and Regular Expressions
- , 2 min read
