Published inDev Genius·Apr 13, 2022BPM: A CSS Custom Properties MethodologyCSS custom properties (or CSS variables) are powerful, cascade, and let us build websites in ways we couldn’t before. That said, the cascading of CSS means there’s a good chance of unexpected side effects, especially if you’re defining properties at more than just the :root level. …CSS5 min readCSS5 min read
May 19, 2021Concise Sass Mixin for Media QueriesUsing sass for media queries is pretty popular — there’s plenty of libraries just for this. Sass is a lot more powerful (especially with dart-sass) than people who have been using Sass for a long time might realize, and we can write some really expressive mixins and functions these days. …Sass3 min readSass3 min read
May 3, 2021Please Follow UI ConventionsMost website visitors haven’t been to your site before. Unless you’re one of the giants or building an internal web app, most of your visitors are on your site for their first time — or at least, the first time in a while. How they use your site is going…UI3 min readUI3 min read
Jul 28, 2020Writing RightFor 2019, I decided I was going to try out carrying and using a bullet journal to help keep myself a bit better organized, as well as to track more thank what gets tracked in the ticket system at work. I’ve used a couple brands of notebooks for years, as…Paper8 min readPaper8 min read
May 6, 2018Web Development is now App DevelopmentFront end development got a lot harder in the last five years and it’s left a lot of people struggling. In the grand scheme of things, I can’t imagine its worse than when people shifted from Perl to PHP, C to Java, or paper to Photoshop. …Web Development7 min readWeb Development7 min read
Jan 15, 2018Adding Vuex to VueVanilla Vue is a great library and you can get a lot done with it. However, one of the most common mistakes I’ve seen is people who aren’t adopting Vuex early on, and have to figure out how to swap in Vuex later. Starting with Vuex isn’t as difficult as…JavaScript3 min readJavaScript3 min read
Nov 26, 2017Writing PHP and JS with Vim in 2017Here’s the bits from my vimrc I’d recommend to anyone using vim or neovim for PHP development. These settings provide Good indentation and syntax highlighting for PHP, Vue, Twig, Blade, Javascript, and Scss files. It even shows 4-space indentation in a reasonable way. Reasonable, asynchronous code completion for PHP and…Vim5 min readVim5 min read
Oct 26, 2017Some Ways to Finish Hacktoberfest 2017There’s five days left to participate in Hacktoberfest. For me, Hacktoberfest is a reminder of just how much I owe to the open source community. Every day for work, I use all the following to earn a living: apache, composer, debian, docker, fira sans, firefox, franz, git, laravel, lilyterm, mariadb…Open Source2 min readOpen Source2 min read
Sep 20, 2017The Features We Left BehindCharting the rise and fall of smartphone functionality — After researching what phone to buy next, I wanted to graph some of my data. Here’s the graphs. There’s a lot of features out there that android phone manufacturers have tried out over the years. I liked HTC’s builtin kickstands, and the e-ink second display on a yotaphone has always…5 min read5 min read
Sep 19, 20171 in a 1000: picking an android phoneMy LG G3 is dying. I’ve had an LG G3 for two and half years (with one RMA) but there’s a hardware problem LG had where the wifi/bluetooth chip stops functioning properly. I’m currently running on this paper trick. The LG G3 has been a great phone. LG’s QHD, 5.5"…8 min read8 min read
