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November 1, 2024

Capability delivered through simplicity is one of my favorite features of tech. Digging into using durable redis to power a web-application, I found that it hits a perfect sweet spot of being easy to work with and capable of storing and relating diverse application data.

June 11, 2024

CSS is a flexible language that, in my opinion, requires opinions to be written well and consistently. Here are some of my opinions for writing good CSS.

May 29, 2024

A simple and effective way to apply a custom mask to the top and/or bottom of any container with CSS.

May 3, 2024

In 2010, my then girlfriend, now wife, reached out to stack-overflow for coding advice. This is that story.

April 17, 2024

A few musings and insights from a short bit of work conducted over the weekend.

April 12, 2024

As a person ingrained in technical details I've come to value the ability to communicate with others in an effective way.

April 8, 2024

An in-demand pattern distilled – a navbar that hides as you scroll down a page, but then instantly reappears and follows you when you scroll up.

April 4, 2024

The era of remote work requires change in the ways spatially established habits have been disrupted, including socializing and culture building.

March 23, 2024

My thoughts on the devaluing of front-end development, and how dealing with invisible contexts has become thankless work.

March 5, 2024

If you had to build a website right now, get started right away, what web technologies are you reaching for in 2024?

March 4, 2024

A short thought on AI and its progression and promises for the future.

January 27, 2024

vue/reactivity is a small, stand-alone reactivity system that any JavaScript framework can use. Here are three ways to create shared state stores with it.

January 13, 2024

No sponsors here, just an honest look back and review of a valuable and endlessly fun educational game for kids.

December 21, 2023

2023 marked the crescendo of the return of server-based web tech, and with it came a greater industrial appreciation of front-of-the-front-end skills.

September 12, 2023

Look out! There's a new persistent edge KV store in town! Let's take Deno KV and Deno Deploy for a spin by building a simple API.

September 10, 2023

A quick walk-through of an easy, artsy and impressive pure CSS visual effect.

September 9, 2023

Three years on since many companies went remote and some leaders still struggle with leading remotely. Here's what I think it takes.

September 3, 2023

Once thought to be an impossible ask, here's a simple workaround to allow customText hidden preheaders in Veeva and Salesforce emails.

August 30, 2023

Let's talk about why there aren't any.

July 12, 2023

The idea that the web is evolving quickly is obvious, but needs pointing out. Here I reflect on how that pace is starting to have an impact on teams that haven't kept up.

April 18, 2023

Only in the last few years have I realized that web dev as a profession and a hobby is like having a superpower, but it also makes me kind of weird.

March 9, 2023

Did you know there's an entire field of computer science barely yet explored? Join me at the entrance to a deep rabbit hole as we take a look at Robust-First Computation.

March 1, 2023

In development, we have "code smells." Extending the metaphor, here are some design smells that devs can pick up on as well.

February 27, 2023

A quick write up on how Astro made it very easy to track page reads in Cloudflare KV.

February 25, 2023

Let's look at how expectations can be used as an explicit device to improve work and working relationships.

February 24, 2023

Developer experience has ramped up in focus over the last few years as a way to increase platform adoption and developer productivity. Here are the features I think make for a good DX.

February 15, 2023

Processes and systems are often built with extreme flexibility in mind, but let's look at the case for at least considering not generalizing them for the sake of it.

February 13, 2023

After years of honing my leadership style, I've landed on a one-on-one format that I quite like. Here's a deep dive into it.

February 11, 2023

As someone who has been wanting to do a podcast but not having time for it. Blogcasting seems like a great middle-ground solution.

February 10, 2023

Astro 2.0 just landed, and with it some great new features including Content Collections. Let's have a look!

January 29, 2023

Are you a company looking to build a new website? As someone who built company websites for many years, I think you should consider not going with another WordPress site.

November 18, 2022

Applying context to websites often lives tied to content, or tied to the front end, or split into both. Here I propose building a new contextual layer separate from both.

October 10, 2022

What eats at our code? A quick explorative rambling of why we have to maintain and invest in all code and digital systems.

July 13, 2022

A lot of focus remains on success and failure as traits of progress, but I've learned that it's really momentum that you should keep your eye on.

June 17, 2022

Third-party frameworks and systems abstract away complexity, but often at the cost of flexibility. Escape hatches can be a great way to bring flexibility back without compromising features.

June 14, 2022

It feels really great to get over a hard hurdle. But don't stop there, do it again.

June 7, 2022

More than once I've written some snazzy JavaScript code that I want to quickly turn into a sharable library, but the process of how to easily do that has bogged me down enough to drop the idea entirely. Here's a look at using vite to quickly publish your code as a JavaScript Library.

May 31, 2022

Sometimes you need that little extra spark to go down a new pathway or face the unknown. When you're grasping for that push, do it for context.

May 29, 2022

Here's a practical look at using html2canvas to generate images for blog posts. You might be looking at said image right now!

May 24, 2022

Rather than having to completely rely on the client to render your content when you want to make it interactive or functional, progressively enhance it with petite-vue.

May 20, 2022

Reframing how you think about work toward a perspective of helping the folks around you can spread positive change at multiple levels.

May 19, 2022

Two things about web accessibility that we need to stop letting hold us back.

May 17, 2022

How do you sprinkle in interactive elements? For many of us it used to be jQuery, and now maybe it's vanilla JS or you've graduated up to a larger framework like React, Vue or Svelte. Here's my case for why you ought to take a look at petite-vue.

May 16, 2022

If you had to build a website right now, get started right away, what web technologies are you reaching for?

May 13, 2022

Divergent and convergent mindsets play a critical role in how I think of ideas and uncover solutions to problems. Here's a bit about why they're so useful to me.

May 12, 2022

Have you ever thought about the web having a fourth major, native language? Here are a few of my thoughts on it.

May 10, 2022

Ever hit the issue where you want numbered items to alphabetically order themselves numerically, so you lead them with zeros, which works until you have more digits than zeros. Leximited notation solves this issue, and then some!

May 9, 2022

A quick riff on an idea that has stuck with me for a bit and can really help if you lean into it.

May 6, 2022

Cloudflare Workers (Edge Functions) and their specialized KV product are the perfect tool to create a quick little API with persistent state.

May 5, 2022

Don't get stuck for too long thinking about, just go ahead and throw it.

May 4, 2022

A quick take on one of Jamstack's biggest hurdles it has yet to fully overcome: previewing content.

May 3, 2022

Let's get a surface-level view of edge functions: what they are, what they're good for, and how you can get started with them

April 30, 2022

Hello World! This is my first post on my new website and blog. Like and subscribe folks!