Patrick's Historical Blog Posts
Building Responsive UIs with Vue.js and Tailwind CSS
In 2025, Vue.js and Tailwind CSS enable fast, responsive UI development. Vue handles reactive components; Tailwind provides utility classes for styling. This post covers setup, concepts, examples, and best practices. Setting Up Vue.js with Tailwind CSS Start with Vue CLI or Vite. Install Vue: npm init vue@latest. Add Tailwind: npm install -D tailwindcss postcss autoprefixer, […]
Best Practices for Managing Remote Engineering Teams in AI-Driven Development
In 2025, remote engineering teams drive AI innovation but face challenges like time zones, data security, and tool integration. This post outlines key practices for success. Establish Clear Communication Channels Over-communicate via tools like Slack and Zoom for async updates. Share product visions visually and document everything in writing. Schedule regular check-ins without unnecessary meetings […]
Integrating AI Tools for Code Generation in JavaScript Projects
In 2025, AI tools streamline JavaScript development by generating code, suggesting completions, and debugging. This post covers options like Claude, Cursor, VS Code extensions, and others. Benefits of AI Integration AI reduces boilerplate, accelerates prototyping, and improves code quality in JS projects using frameworks like React, Node.js, or Vue. Claude AI for Code Generation Claude, […]
Avoid Estate Sales by Lisa aka Family Estate Services
Sadly, these folks only focus on getting rid of your stuff and not maximizing the value of each item. The people they sell to turn around and resell it for much higher. I recommend avoiding Estate sale companies, but this one has every excuse in the book. Empty promises, used my property as storage and […]
Hubitat Elevation
So for the past several months I’ve been apart of the amazing team at Hubitat and we have finally released our first product Hubitat Elevation and its been an amazing journey to work with such a talented group. From a dream to an actual product, its amazing to see this come together. Check out our intro video https://youtu.be/FqldxnIOwSU and […]
Starting a Business Takes Time
Finally got our Federal Tax ID number and opened a bank account, which marks the final steps in starting NPSRS, LLC. This has been a long journey, but it is exciting to start this business up and help serve our customers needs. http://npsrs.com is the new home for this company. Visit the website to see all […]
Editing YouTube Downloaded Videos in Adobe Premiere CC
I recently started to do highlighted segments for Live Code Fridays LiveStream on YouTube and after the show has been broadcasted, I downloaded the mp4 of the show. The first couple times, the file was fine and could easily be edited in Premiere, however, the last episode, somehow had a variable framerate and Premiere does not […]
Announcing LiveCodeFridays.com
I am so happy to launch LiveCodeFridays.com, the new home for the YouTube live stream show. I will continue to cross post here, but all information about the show, Live Code Fridays can now be found at the link above. Also, with the launch of the new LiveCodeFridays.com we also launched a separate YouTube.com channel […]
Live Code Fridays 1/15/2016 8pm ET / 5pm PT
Live Code Fridays 1/15/2016 8pm EST / 5pm PST Join host Patrick Stuart and special guests for another edition of Live Code Fridays while they live code up SmartApps and DeviceTypes and discuss the latest happenings in IoT and HA using the SmartThings IDE and platform. On this week’s show we will talk about CES, some […]