My Decade in Review(opens in new tab)
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How to add Syntax Highlighting to a Statamic Site(opens in new tab)
We'll cover how to add syntax highlighting to code blocks in Statamic v3 using Prism. With a couple quick steps you'll have your code blocks looking spiffy!
2019: Year in review(opens in new tab)
Introduction This time last year, I Tweeted out some goals for the New Year. š£ļø Speak about CSS at a conference or school š Take a class a month š Read a book a month āļø Go back to SF, ...
What Are the React Team Principles?(opens in new tab)
UI Before API.
On let vs const(opens in new tab)
So which one should I use?
What Is JavaScript Made Of?(opens in new tab)
Getting a closure on JavaScript.
Site is finally live!(opens in new tab)
Welcome travelers! Iāve been procrastinating putting together a web site/portfolio/blog for the better part of a year and now the first version is finished.
Letās talk about banning political ads on Twitter(opens in new tab)
Before you get started, fair warning that this post has ātakesā, some of which could be considered āhotā. This post is not about web development. So, Twitter recently stopped allowing political advertising. jack ššš (@jack) October 30, 2019 Weāve made ...
Books That Changed My Life(opens in new tab)
People always ask for book recommendations, so hereās my list of books that changed my life in one way or another. None of them is related to tech or programming, but all affect how I think and work.
Lazy Pre-Browsing with Prefetch(opens in new tab)
Using prefetch for fun and profit
Making Cloud.typography Fast(er)(opens in new tab)
What issues does Hoefler&Coās Cloud.typography introduce, and how can we mitigate them?
How To Set Up an AWS CodePipeline for Uploading Your Static Site To S3 On Every Commit(opens in new tab)
Time to First Byte: What It Is and How to Improve It(opens in new tab)
Just how much does TTFB matter when it comes to front-end performance?
How Does the Development Mode Work?(opens in new tab)
Dead code elimination by convention.
Preparing for a Tech Talk, PartĀ 3: Content(opens in new tab)
Turning an idea into a talk.
How to make an animated interactive vue.js slider(opens in new tab)
So, I was looking for a fun example of UI interactivity to prototype on Codepen, and I stumbled upon this really cool shot that Alexsander Barhon shared. Itās a simple enough animation, with a really nice loading effect and staggered ...
Python in Azure Pipelines, Step by Step(opens in new tab)
Since the acquisition of Travis CI, the future of their free offering is unclear. Azure Pipelines has a generous free tier, but the examples I found are discouragingly complex and take advantage of features like templating that most projects donāt ...
Self-Host Your Static Assets(opens in new tab)
Why is it so much better to self-host your static assets?
The Price of the Hallway Track(opens in new tab)
There are many good reasons not to go to every talk possible when attending conferences. However, increasingly, it became hip to boast about avoiding going to talks ā encouraging others to follow suit. That rubs me the wrong way as ...
Maintaining a Python Project When Itās Not Your Job(opens in new tab)
PyPI is a gold mine of great packages but those packages have to be written first. More often than not, projects that millions of people depend on are written and maintained by only one person. If youāre unlucky, that person ...
Fixing the ruby 'CoreFoundation/CFString.h' file not found install error(opens in new tab)
I hit this error installing the latest Ruby using rbenv: $ rbenv install 2.6.3 ruby-build: use openssl from homebrew Downloading ruby-2.6.3.tar.bz2... -> https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.6/ruby-2.6.3.tar.bz2 Installing ruby-2.6.3... ruby-build: use readline from homebrew BUILD FAILED (OS X 10.14.4 using ruby-build 20190423) Inspect or ...
Uses(opens in new tab)
This is a non-exhaustive list of the tools I use in my day-to-day operation for design, development, and life as a human. If Iām missing something, let me know! Hardware Main Computer ā 2023 MacBook Pro, 14-inch, 16GB M2 Webcam ...
Tips for Technical Interviews(opens in new tab)
How can you prepare for and survive a technical interview?
Name It, and They Will Come(opens in new tab)
A change starts with a story.
Writing Resilient Components(opens in new tab)
Four principles to set you on the right path.
A Complete Guide to useEffect(opens in new tab)
Effects are a part of your data flow.
Cache-Control for Civilians(opens in new tab)
What does Cache-Control really do? In basic terms? Letās find out!
How Are Function Components Different from Classes?(opens in new tab)
Theyāre a whole different PokĆ©mon.
Coping with Feedback(opens in new tab)
Sometimes I canāt fall asleep.
Fix Like No Oneās Watching(opens in new tab)
The other kind of technical debt.
Fixing errors installing the charlock_holmes ruby gem(opens in new tab)
The charlock_holmes gem can be a PITA to install on a mac, this is what worked for me. If you get this error: gem install charlock_holmes -v '0.7.7' Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing charlock_holmes: ...
Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks(opens in new tab)
How I learned to stop worrying and love refs.
React as a UI Runtime(opens in new tab)
An in-depth description of the React programming model.
Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which(opens in new tab)
How can you tell when bandwidth or latency are your bottlenecks?
Why Isnāt X a Hook?(opens in new tab)
Just because we can, doesnāt mean we should.
The āBug-Oā Notation(opens in new tab)
What is the š(n) of your API?
Preparing for a Tech Talk, PartĀ 2: What, Why, and How(opens in new tab)
We need to go deeper.
The Elements of UI Engineering(opens in new tab)
What makes UI engineering difficult?
Things I Donāt Know as of 2018(opens in new tab)
We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.
Preparing for a Tech Talk, PartĀ 1: Motivation(opens in new tab)
Hereās my recipe for a good talk idea.
Python Application Dependency Management(opens in new tab)
We have more ways to manage dependencies in Python applications than ever. But how do they fare in production? Unfortunately this topic turned out to be quite polarizing and was at the center of a lot of heated debates. This ...