John Costanzo

So I was looking at what I was paying for Wordpress and just felt I could save some money. [The old blog](https://jcwebconcepts.wordpress.com/) will still exist, I just will not put any content on t

# What I Used Before For the longest time I have been using [Empress Blog](https://empress-blog.netlify.app) as my blogging framework. This framework is built using [EmberJS](https://emberjs.com), w

So as I always like to do every once in awhile, I decided to re-install my M1 Mac Mini and oh man the troubles I had were just ridiculous. ![Example of the error I see](/images/blog/account-creation

Sometimes you have to work with API’s that are not following a certain standard. When working with these types of API’s, Ember data will not work with it unless you massage the data. This article is

So I was interviewing someone for a role with my company and during the part where you ask the person, “Do you have any questions for me?” came up, he asked something different. Tell me one thing tha

I know that this is not a new add on or anything like that, but man did I misjudge the power of this [Vim add on.](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevim.vim) For the longest t

At the company I work for we wanted to setup [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) so local developers do not have to do all this work to get their machines configured for any projects. We also wanted to

So, when I moved into our new house 3 yrs ago, my only requirement was I have my own office. In my last house I was stuck in the basement. When I made videos, I would get the jokes about living in my

For the longest time I have been hopping from editor to editor. I have used [Notepad++](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/), [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/), [Atom](https://atom.io/), and re

Setting up a new computer can be a tedious and tiresome process. I am not the person that has an exact image of my machine, so when things go wrong I just load that image. I would never have somethin

So some of my Twitter followers have started to talk up, using a Linux OS called [ElementaryOS](http://elementary.io). Its suppose to give you the look and feel of OSX. So after some many tweets, I h