Payton.Codes

Musings on life, games, and code

Hi, I’m Payton!

I’m a passionate coder by day and an enthusiastic tabletop dungeon master by night.

This blog is a place for me to tell stories and share fun things I’ve made. I write about insights from my coding projects, philosophical thoughts, and tales from epic D&D campaigns. Whether you’re a fellow developer, someone looking for a one-shot game, or a good friend, I’m excited to share my knowledge and adventures with you.

Here’s some of my latest posts

  • Test spies in PHP

    Test spies in PHP

    I think that I wrote my first unit tests in Ruby with RSpec, back in the day. But I learned most of my testing knowledge…

  • An iframe without a url

    An iframe without a url

    Sometimes you need to display html inside an iframe, but it’s not at a URL. Perhaps you got the markup from an API endpoint or…

  • Declarative vs. Imperative Soup

    Declarative vs. Imperative Soup

    I remember not too long ago (I think this was about the time that React first came out) I was trying to understand what people…

  • JavaScript: Mocking Window

    JavaScript: Mocking Window

    When I code in JavaScript I try to avoid using the window or document objects as much as possible, but sometimes there’s just no getting…