What I learned, migrating from Rails 5 to Rails 7
September 17, 2023What happens when you attempt to rewrite a 12 year old Rails project?
Rebase, squash, merge.
September 12, 2022Recently I was asked, why do we have to force push to our remote feature branch, when rebasing on main? I noticed it could be a lesson in git fundamentals.
Introduction to Micro Frontends
June 05, 2021Micro Frontends solve complex problems for large teams, but can we adopt some of it for small teams?
Real world REM usage in a PX world.
May 11, 2021An approach to using REMs (Root Ems) when everything in handover is in Pixels.
A sane docker deployment strategy for WordPress
July 31, 2020The ideal stack to run your WordPress deployment to handle millions of requests on a handful of servers.
Using Node Sharp to stack and overlay images over each other to create fun composites.
June 05, 2020Image manipulation basics you can use in your next NodeJS project.
Write dumb tests, a visual testing primer for any web developer.
June 04, 2020An alternative method to running snapshot and screenshot testing, while you're a beginner.
How to add BugHerd to your Storybook project
March 12, 2020Add BugHerd bug tracking to Storybook for an effective issue tracking process.
How to communicate with an iframe using React hooks.
February 16, 2020A straightforward way to use postMessage to communicate with an iframe with React.
How to combine RoughJS and React Hooks, to draw to a HTML Canvas within Gatsby.
February 01, 2020Draw rough shapes to a canvas, just like Excalidraw, in your next WebApp.
Using Firefox's dev tools to understand how a simple wave SVG-CSS animation works.
January 27, 2020How to debug SVG and CSS based animations using dev tools.
Kickstart your blog with Gatsby, no javascript knowledge required.
January 18, 2020A quickstart guide to starting a blog using Gatsby.
Finding the motivation to start a blog as a web developer.
January 11, 2020This is it, this is the time to break the cycle and start that blog of yours!