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?
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How Does the Development Mode Work?(opens in new tab)
Dead code elimination by convention.
Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us(opens in new tab)
They’re not burritos.
Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 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. It’s 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 don’t ...
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 – encouraging others to follow suit. That rubs me the wrong way as ...
Maintaining a Python Project When It’s 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 you’re 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 I’m missing something, let me know! Hardware Main Computer — 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? Let’s find out!
How Are Function Components Different from Classes?(opens in new tab)
They’re a whole different Pokémon.
Coping with Feedback(opens in new tab)
Sometimes I can’t fall asleep.
Fix Like No One’s 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 Isn’t X a Hook?(opens in new tab)
Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.
The “Bug-O” Notation(opens in new tab)
What is the 🐞(n) of your API?
Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 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 Don’t Know as of 2018(opens in new tab)
We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.
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 ...
ITCSS × Skillshare(opens in new tab)
The official introduction to ITCSS on Skillshare
What If?(opens in new tab)
How do we so often forget to ask the simple question: what if?
CSS and Network Performance(opens in new tab)
How can CSS impact network and resource-loading performance? Can things be that serious?
Assign missing tag to VM(opens in new tab)
We run our backup job schedules based on the tags assigned to the VM. This keeps it relatively simple and to add a system to a backup job you only need to tag it, not go into another software and ...
Creating a Laravel Preset Package, Part Two(opens in new tab)
We'll add some custom functionality to the composer package we created in part one to create a Laravel boilerplate with things set up just how we prefer.
Creating A Laravel Preset Package(opens in new tab)
Laravel provides frontend scaffolding, but you may want a more customized boilerplate to start projects from. Learn to create your own package to do just that!
Setting Up a Mac for Web Development(opens in new tab)
Follow along as I set up a macOS desktop from scratch. Development environments, apps, code editors, all the settings, and some useful shortcuts!
How to Write Deployment-friendly Applications(opens in new tab)
The DevOps movement gave us many ways to put Python applications into production. But how can you practically structure and configure your applications to make them indifferent to the environment they run in? How do secrets fit into the picture? ...
Python Hashes and Equality(opens in new tab)
Most Python programmers don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how equality and hashing works. It usually just works. However there’s quite a bit of gotchas and edge cases that can lead to subtle and frustrating bugs once one ...
Why Your Dockerized Application Isn’t Receiving Signals(opens in new tab)
Proper cleanup when terminating your application isn’t less important when it’s running inside of a Docker container. Although it only comes down to making sure signals reach your application and handling them, there’s a bunch of things that can go ...
On Conference Speaking(opens in new tab)
I’ve seen quite a bit of the world thanks to being invited to speak at conferences. Since some people are under the impression that serial conference speakers possess some special talents, I’d like to demystify my process by walking you ...
Solid Snakes or: How to Take 5 Weeks of Vacation(opens in new tab)
No matter whether you run a web app, search for gravitational waves, or maintain a backup script: reliability of your systems make the difference between sweet dreams and production nightmares at 4am.
Basic pasta sauce(opens in new tab)
Someone asked on Twitter how I made my pasta sauce, so here is the recipe! The base of my Pasta sauce is largely this recipe, except I mostly don’t add mozzarella: At it’s simplest I can make the whole thing ...
Shortcut to Open Laravel Docs from Your Editor(opens in new tab)
Wouldn't it be great if we could quickly access the exact Laravel documentation page you need right from your code editor? Now you can!