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Writing
2021-02-02
usePrevious
#react
#hooks
#typescript
#recipes
2020-12-22
copyToClipboard
#typescript
#recipes
2020-12-22
useDebouncedValue
#react
#typescript
#recipes
2020-12-17
How TailwindCSS converted me
#css
#front-end
2020-10-30
Engineering values
#software-development
#philosophy
2020-10-17
Arrange, Act, Assert
#testing
2020-10-14
Writing a memoize function from scratch
#javascript
#from-scratch
2020-09-29
Using rem-based media queries
#css
2020-09-11
TypeScript generics
#typescript
2020-09-05
Dev-only routes in NextJS
#nextjs
#front-end
2020-09-02
Accessible icon buttons
#front-end
#accessibility
2020-08-24
Cheat sheet: using keys in React
#react
#javascript
2020-08-20
(Personal) code preferences: arrow functions
#javascript
#formatting
2020-07-23
Using "regex.test" with the "global" flag
#javascript
#regex
2020-07-02
Audit all NPM dependencies in a project using this bash script
#bash
#automation
#npm
2020-04-22
Type definitions for async functions in TypeScript
#typescript
#promises
#async
2020-04-12
Leaning into TypeScript for type-safe error handling
#typescript
#exception-handling
2019-04-26
Mocking the fetch API with Jest
#testing
#jest
#javascript
2019-03-26
Refactoring legacy code with Jest snapshots
#testing
#jest
#javascript
2019-03-01
Tools like Prettier ask us to give up control
#formatting
2019-02-17
Testing Animated Components in React Native
#react-native
#testing
2019-02-07
Coding with empathy
2019-01-15
3 ways everyone breaks their website’s focus state
#accessibility
#css
#html
2018-11-19
Adding pipelines to JavaScript
#functional-programming
#javascript
2018-09-10
What makes ReasonML so great?
#reason
#functional-programming
#javascript
2018-07-02
How CSS works: Creating layers with z-index
#css
2018-05-29
How CSS works: Understanding the cascade
#css
2018-05-14
Using trampolines to manage large recursive loops in JavaScript
#javascript
#functional-programming
2018-04-10
How CSS works: Parsing & painting CSS in the critical rendering path
#css
2018-02-13
Friends Don't Let Friends Write React Boilerplate
2018-02-01
Clean Console
2018-01-27
Some Thoughts on Elm
#functional-programming
2018-01-06
5 Front-End Technologies I'm Keeping My Eye on in 2018
2017-10-24
Why Keeping a Code Journal Will Help You Become a Better Developer
2017-08-28
Learning a New Codebase: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2017-08-14
5 Myths About The Post-Bootcamp Job Search