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A collection of articles and anecdotes about developer experiences, frontend techniques, and building modern web applications.
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5 Fun Web Developer Tips You Likely Know About Already
GitHub's browser-based VS Code IDE, npm's testing shorthand, dunders, and more. Here are 5 noncritical but handy things web developers should be aware of.
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Make a Proper Ellipsis on Windows or Mac. Period x3? Wrong
There's a right way to use ellipses. Of much less import, there's a right way to type them! Here are the Windows and macOS ellipsis keyboard shortcuts.
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Using CSS Custom Properties and Calc To Build a Type Scale
I love CSS custom properties. I love calc. We can use CSS custom properties and calc to build a fluidly responsive type scale in vanilla CSS. Let's do so!
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That Thing That "Shouldn't Take More Than Five Minutes"
"Is he right?" That's the question I'm gonna ask at the end of this little-not-little thought experiment. Given context, how heavy can 5 minutes actually be?
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Happy New Year! Here Are Some Obligatory Blog Resolutions
Join a gym? Take a dry January? Call my mother more often? All solid resolutions, but no help to this blog. I wanna go audio/visual with this thing in 2024.
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Find More Free Time With This Dungeons & Dragons Mechanic
Life is busy. Free time comes in few-and-far-between spurts. I stole a trick from D&D to optimize my free time. It's worked well and I'd like to share it.
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Let's Play a Game of Inches Using Valid and Awful CSS Units
We all use ems and rems and pixels in our CSS. Have you ever used inches or centimeters? Believe it or not, ins and cms exist! They probably shouldn't.
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That Moment When You Finally Set npm Init's Default Values
Tired of updating the author, version, and license fields in every new project's package.json file? Me too; here's how to set npm init's default values.
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Do You Know What Em Actually Stands For? I Just Learned
What does Em Stand For In CSS? Nothing. It's a Word, like potato or snowshoe. I learned this today in a random fit of curiosity after 20+ years of CSS'ing.
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There Is No Code You Can Write That I Won't Understand
As your dev skills level-up, your code dumbs down. Clarity feuds with cleverness. 20 lines of code that could be a baffling one line regex? Opt for verbosity.
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A Journey From Frontend to Front-end to Front End and Back
Have you ever Googled front-end VS. front end VS. frontend? It's a nest of grammatical correctness on compound adjectives and nouns. This, friends, is not that.
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Accidental Brutalism and Commentary On My Blog Aesthetics
You know elephants, right? They're sensitive, powerful, monochrome … yet visually striking. They're not over-designed. My blog mimics elephants. Shots fired.