Using AI to Help Me Prepare for a Tech Job Fair (Speedrunning the Job Hunt)

Posted on April 16, 2026April 16, 2026 by Jasper Showers

March 2026 was a bit of a whirlwind. My company went through its second round of layoffs, and this time, my position was…

AI Vibe Coding A Simple Website For Free – Photos of McFlurry

Posted on March 4, 2026 by Jasper Showers

Result: https://mcflurry.jshowers.com/ My new rescue dog McFlurry is popular at cafes and different places around town. I wanted to make a site featuring…

Making an abstract base class for a Django database model to overwrite the save() function

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Jasper Showers

I was recently faced with the challenge of needing to add translations to a hierarchal database setup in Django/Python. We wanted these translations…

Where is Jasper (v1)? Connecting Google Calendar, Maps, and Places APIs

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Jasper Showers

Where am I? In real time: whereis.jshowers.com When I went full time digital nomad, I started using a public Google calendar to share…

Alphabetically Sort A List With Special Characters

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Jasper Showers

Recently I was tasked with sorting a list of countries, that were translated to Portuguese, in alphabetical order. Because the list contained special…

Creating a simple MiddlewareFilter using .NET Core 2.0 and dependency injection

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Jasper Showers

A MiddlewareFilter is the perfect tool for creating conditional logic on MVC controllers or actions using .NET Core. It receives the Middleware benefits of…