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I don't know what to say. I feel like I have feel off the boat. I've been lacking motivation for personal projects and learning outside work…

This year has been more about getting back to "normal". I've haven't put in a lot of effort with personal projects. In fact I have rebelled…

This last year has been a shit-show. It's the year of the global pandemic that has turned our lives upside-down. That being said, how did my…

Like last year, I'm going to set some goals for the year. Five total. Here we go. I want to explore and learn more of Svelte.js and maybe…

The clip-path css property is a fun one. It's essentially setting a mask on an element. From MDN, "The CSS property creates a clipping…

Recently I had a ticket come in for a survey form and there was some custom styling I had to do for it. The main thing I had to do was add…

Another year has passed by and it has been, what you can say, an interesting year for better or worse. The first six months hummed along and…

Recently, I had a task where I had to create video page where there are five videos. The third video would be large and in center and then…

Tables have always been a pain point when it comes to responsive design. They will display nicely (sometimes) on desktop but they become a…

First of all this year has been nuts. It has been one of the craziest years in my 42 years. It started out normal and I was just moving…

I recently pushed out some updates to my personal website. What I was wanting to do is to freshen it up a little bit since the design has…

By now we're all aware of the COVID-19 outbreak and most of us are taking measures to help stop the spread of this new illness. This has…

Recently I had to figure out how to traverse up the DOM tree so I could target a sibling of a HTML element that was two levels up the DOM…

I'm not feeling motivated to code. I like to work on small personal projects outside of work but sometimes I'm just not feeling up to it. I…

Like last year, I'm going to set some goals for the year. Five total. Here we go. I want to use more animation. I would like to dive more…

Until recently I never thought much about printing a web page. I guess it's something people do. I know you can. I just never do. That said…

I don't think I did this last year. Though I don't think I had any goals laid out for last year. It is getting close to the end of 2019 and…

No. Okay, that's it. Post is complete. Have a nice day. Hold on. Why? Isn't Sass awesome? It's awesome nature is in the name itself. Sass…

As a web developer I like to include little code examples/snippets in my content sometimes. It's not too difficult but it's a bit quirky…

Most of the time you want an element to appear on a web page when it loads but sometimes you may want to delay an element from loading. In…

A long time ago it was pretty standard to create layouts with tables. Then we moved on to using divs to create layouts. This was certainly…

I don't use a whole lot of JavaScript on a day-to-day basis. This week was an exception. There were a couple occasions I had to make sure…

Shhhhh I haven't completely ditched WordPress. I just wanted to make a half-assed click-bait title. I still have a site that uses WordPress…

Another year has passed by. Since last year, our department has moved into a new building and I'm getting used to living in a smaller city…

This is something that intimidates me a lot. I've done lots of simple functions - mostly ones with event listeners. Even the name…

This year is flying by. I've been busy at my job. I'm almost at my two year mark at LRS. So far so good. Yet, I get down on myself still. I…

Not much happening around here right now. I took a little break from personal projects to work of some art/drawing. I hadn't done any of…

For a couple weeks my blog completely disappeared resulting in the link to my blog from my website being broke. This resulted from my…

I have no idea how to work databases. I'm highly intimidated by them. I have been using JSON for data in personal projects but I certainly…

I wasn't sure how I'd feel about a book that is about mathematicians. Doing math doesn't sound that interesting to me. Reading about math…

I don't feel like working on personal projects or do any coding outside of work. I do this stuff all day at my full-time job. Right now I…

This was an issue I ran into when solving some accessibility issues. First of all, every page needs to have one h1 tag. Pages shouldn't have…

After months of trying to decide if and how I wanted to leave Facebook, I finally pulled the plug last night. I didn't even bother to…

Alt text values seems to be confusing for a lot of users. One method many use is to cover all bases is to add an alt text value to every…

There has been a little personal project I've been working on for a couple years on and off. It's not that it's difficult to make. It's just…

I ran into an issue where I had to remove a style from some dynamically generated code. I couldn't remove a class from one item because I…

I listened to a podcast over a year ago that profiled this book. The author of the book talked about some of the themes and people profiled…

I'm going to hold myself accountable and make some goals. I'm not going to just think of goals but to write them down and put them out there…

In the world of web development there are many tools and services available for free. This is something I love about web development. All…

Let me preface this with I don't know a whole lot about browser cookies. I've only added cookies to JavaScript a couple times. However, I've…

I don't know what to tell you because I have a hard time thinking of personal projects. I think some common answers to the problem of not…

There's been a lot of talk about the static site generator called Gatsby. It is React based and powered with GraphQL. I supposed out of all…

This is honestly just a personal reminder for me. I always get confused when I need to merge branches. Every single time I have to do a…

Today I took the day off work. I'm writing this at a time where normally I'd be checking my help desk tickets, communicating with a client…

JavaScript is very hard for me. I struggle with it. That is not to say I never use it. I do. I use it quite frequently. Honestly, I use…

A year ago today I started working as an associate web developer. Overall, it's been a good year. It's also been a year full of big…

I'm not a developer. I have told myself this a million times. I think if you read the My Dev Journey post, that could give some guidance to…

Sometimes I feel like I should be much further along in my career. I am 40 years old but I'm at an entry level. I think that would tell you…