Blogs about Web development

In this blog post, we look at the ECMAScript proposal “Iterator helpers” by Gus Caplan, Michael Ficarra, Adam Vandolder, Jason Orendorff, Kevin Gibbons, and Yulia Startsev. It introduces utility methods for working with iterable data: …

Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and …

Imagine you’re on the hunt for a new sweater and decide to visit a local clothing store. Upon arrival, you engage with Tom, an enthusiastic new employee who began working there last week. You inquire …

Accessing or setting the value of a class property is comman task in object oriented programming. There are a few ways to do this in PHP. Let’s discuss them first. The precursor Property hooks The …

I created a script that runs every Thursday night at 11pm central time to automatically update a Spotify playlist called Transmission On The Radio. Transmission is a weekly dance party hosted by DJ Jake Rudh …

I started using ChatGPT when it came out a few months ago. It was mind blowing to chat with a computer and have it feel almost like a real person. Some people are talking about …

For David Patch, who was a wonderful teacherA consideration of good advice in the age of automation, originally published in CT 206: Real Hollywood Movie Magic.I. The failure of mimickryIn the first acting class of …

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A long time ago, I wrote a reasonably popular bit of open source code called REVENGE.CSS (the caps are intentional). You should know upfront, this hasn’t been maintained for years and if I ever did …

This post assumes some knowledge of view transitions. If you're looking for a from-scratch intro to the feature, see this article. When folks ask me for help with view transition animations that "don't quite look …

for: Explore DDD, March 2024; Emerging Tech East, April 2024 At Honeycomb, we have a company value: Everything is an Experiment. Sometimes people take that too literally, and try to make every UI change an …

Hey folks! Long time, no post! Between vacation, a new job, more vacation, a new school year for the kid, and trips to visit family, I haven’t had much time to write here. What have …

I recently encountered an open source project that hadn't received updates for a while. The issue tracker had ~200 open issues, ~70 open pull requests, and CI was partially failing. It's not uncommon for projects …

Table of contents Definitions Applicability and importance Conclusion DefinitionsWhat is holistic ownership of a project? Holistic ownership. Person ABC, in the projects we have worked together, has excelled at holistic owning the problem (beyond specific …

I've experienced a variety of code bases and have seen both great and terrible code. Here are some of the best courses I've found to help you write better code. - Tagged: Learning, JavaScript, TypeScript, …

You’re a Blogger, Not an Essayist - I am BARRY HESS - “You don’t need to labor over your posts. You don’t need to have perfect grammar or spelling. You don’t need to leave a …

I recently migrated this blog from Gatsby to Astro. Finally, I have to say! I have been meaning to move away from Gatsby for a while, but I never really prioritised this activity until now …

I don't love how this painting turned out, but I enjoyed every moment of creating it. (I did the best I could on the photography with a tripod, my phone, and my office lights.) I …

If anything looks wrong, read on the site! I recently wrote about my website’s 5th anniversary, and made a little retrospective of its past layouts. Which made me realize it has looked pretty much the …

Grouping items in an array is one of those things you've probably done a load of times. Each time you would have written a grouping function by hand or perhaps reached for lodash's groupBy function. …