May 17, 2018
A little while ago, I asked the Internet its thoughts about how best to work with CSS when following the BEM methodology. And in the following months, I’ve come across some ideas worth sharing.
When I was working on the website that inspired the question, I realized …
February 23, 2017
I am glad that mental health is being discussed more often in the programming world. In particular, I would like to thank Kenneth Reitz for his transparency over the last few years and contributing his recent essay on developer burnout.
Having just recently experienced a period of burnout, I …
November 9, 2016
I have written few articles about how Sublime Text has been such a great environment to get my work done—and there’s more to come, I have been extremely happy with Sublime for years.
But listening to Michael Kennedy and some guests on his Talk Python to Me podcast gush about …
October 26, 2016
At work, we follow the BEM methodology in naming our HTML elements and CSS styles. But we’ve been struggling with the best way to inherit styles from similar blocks. As with many things in programming, there’s great documentation to get you started, but the next level is up to you. …
October 24, 2016
I’ve only recently started listening to the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, but I’m finding it a good source of ideas I want to be exposed to, particularly with product development, analytics, and marketing.
In episode 214, I enjoyed listening to Nick Gauthier share some great tips …
October 18, 2016
How many times have you had the thrill of releasing a new service or app to the world, only to have it crashing down when you test the URL and find a server error page instead of your work? Here are a few tips I use when I’m trying to …
October 13, 2016
The software industry believes every developer should be test-driven to the capacity she can be… and probably a little more. I tend to agree with that, but in individual conversations, (and if I’m honest, in my own head) I notice a lot of negativity, frustration, and confusion with the idea …
October 12, 2016
One Sublime Text feature I have found invaluable is having multiple folders associated with a project. This makes it easy to find the files I frequently work on and makes it trivial to create new files.
When I’m working on a web development project, I’ll make a new Sublime project …
October 10, 2016
Five or so years ago, I was frustrated by my coding environment. I was working on .net web sites and felt like I was fighting Microsoft’s Visual Studio to get my work done. I started jumping between Visual Studio, Notepad++, Eclipse, and other programs. With all my jumping around, I …
October 4, 2016
I have been looking forward to bringing this project to life for several years.
Interest ebbed and flowed. Available time grew and disappeared. Server providers gave over-promising impressions over what they offered. And I had to come up with a name.
Now, a lot of that …