If you own a Pedal Electric AWDII electric bike, there is a chance you can experience a sudden loss of power! I cannot be certain what all scenarios will look like, but for me, I was on a steep hill at a stop-light waiting to turn left. When the light…

If you’re like me and ride an e-bike regularly, chances are you have invested in a nice helmet. Especially if you are commuting and sharing the roads with cars! I bought a POC Kortal Race MIPS Helmet which offers a good amount of protection to the front and back of…

These are some simple tips and lessons I have learned after getting a Pedal Electric AWD II earlier this year. When Building Your Bike, Be Sure to Check the Pedal Website In general, bike assembly is pretty simple. That being said the manual that was sent with my bike was inaccurate and contained instructions for installing the wheel with a skewer…

UPDATE (2023) I have had my bike for quite a while now and you know what? I love it! The first few months I was sour on the bike due to the issues described below, but I have forgiven Pedal and now I really enjoy riding it. It takes some…

Digital Ocean is a great platform that is super easy to use. They also have gotten in the habit of enforcing some best practices, and that includes forcing you to connect to your MongoDB instance with a certificate provided by Digital Ocean. If you are running NestJS, it's pretty easy…

This article will cover how to deploy an NX MonoRepo that uses NestJS for the backend and Angular for the front end. As a bonus, we’ll walk through setting up MongoDB as well. …

When I think of RxJs, I recall a quote from the late great Anthony Bourdain on China. The one thing I know for sure about China is, I will never know China. It’s too big, too old, too diverse, too deep. There’s simply not enough time. The same could be…

What seems like forever ago, I wrote about a simple and easy MVC pattern that can be used with Node and Express. As time went on, I have started to evolve the pattern to mimic patterns found in enterprise frameworks such as .NET Web API 2. First a few disclaimers. …

As part of providing some API usage examples, I worked up an example that includes how to page through an Api using async/await. I won’t go to much into detail here since the pattern speaks for itself. The code could be condensed and improved, but I left it verbose for…