My Current Stack
I thought I would give a peek into my current go-to scaffolding for a backend GraphQL server.
ReadI thought I would give a peek into my current go-to scaffolding for a backend GraphQL server.
ReadRecently, I ported my blog over to Gatsby, after using Jekyll for two years. However, I didn't want to lose all of my posts. So, being an enterprising developer, I decided that I would write some scripts to convert the (remarkably similar but slightly different) posts from one to the other.
ReadI recently gave a talk at Fullstack London 2019 about GraphQL Security. Here is a link to the slides and some packages I referenced in my talk.
ReadI'm making a big career change, and leaving the amazing team at Lighthouse Labs to get back to my role as a full-time technologist.
ReadMuch like the famous WAT talk, this post explores some of the oddities and creative applications of JS that make it 'fun' to work with.
ReadI had the privilege of speaking at JSConfBP this year, and wanted to share my slides with everyone.
ReadIn my ongoing set of posts about various obscure HTML5 tags, this post goes into the progress and meter tags.
ReadLooking behind the proverbial curtain into the functionality of the dialog tag in HTML5.
ReadI have some strong opinions about HTML and CSS, and I wanted to get them out there for the world to see.
ReadThis is a debugging and spec'ing method I have used for years in working with coding, and so I'm going to share it with you now.
ReadLearning to work with the new HTML5 template tags, including what they give you and what they don't.
ReadAn introspective look at some of the philosophy of programming, according to me.
ReadA JavaScript Library for creating Instance-Safe Objects using Prototypal Mixin Inheritance.
ReadIn this post, I talk about some of the common misconceptions that plague those in the developer world when it comes to mental health.
ReadRecently when collaborating on a project with some students at Lighthouse Labs, I was asked to help debug a script that would save form values between page loads, so that the user wouldn’t have to re-populate the form. This piqued my interest, and so the sleeves were both literally and metaphorically rolled up so as to dive in and help with this project.
ReadThis jQuery plugin will apply a class to the semantically first sentence of text in an HTML element.
ReadThis is about working with dates in PHP, something that has driven me nuts for years.
ReadDeep-dive into the differences between object constructors and object literals in JavaScript.
ReadLooks like another plugin was built, and so I wanted to take you behind the scenes and talk about the why and the how.
ReadThe conclusion to how (and why) I build jqLSAdmin
ReadThe backstory behind building the jqLSAdmin localStorage bookmarklet - Part 1
ReadStarting to dig into the potential and possibilities of working with localStorage.
ReadA plugin I wrote which generates a jQuery memory game. Lots of fun, for the whole family!
ReadThis one includes some PHP, but it lets us delve into how you can dynamically generate JS on the back-end
ReadFourth installment of the 5 Things series - This time we look at how jQuery does caching, and what the benefits are
ReadThird in the 5 Things series, this post focuses on the way the jQuery library tests the type of objects.
ReadSecond in the 5 Things series, this one is about testing equivalence, explicitly.
ReadFirst in the 5 Things Everyone Could Learn From the jQuery Source series, focusing on object creation/composition.
ReadA five-part series on things gleaned from the jQuery2.0 source code, including good coding practices and interesting uses of JS.
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