Category: web development

Report: Midway Through 2021

06/20/2021

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…

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Handling Difficult Clients

10/19/2020

Wherever you may work, you will eventually work with people who are difficult, rude, unpleasant and impossible to please. It's just part of…

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Handling Difficult Clients

10/19/2020

Wherever you may work, you will eventually work with people who are difficult, rude, unpleasant and impossible to please. It's just part of…

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Using CSS Counters

09/25/2020

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…

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Report: Midway Through 2020

06/18/2020

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…

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NodeList vs. Array

02/29/2020

When you start to use JavaScript you will deal with arrays quite frequently. You'll also use nodeLists quite freqently too. In a way they…

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Do I Need Sass?

12/09/2019

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…

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Why I Ditched WordPress

09/29/2019

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…

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Report: Midway Through 2019

07/07/2019

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…

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Moving My Blog to Gatsby

05/05/2019

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

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Using Fetch vs XHR

04/10/2019

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…

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Alt Text Best Practices

02/25/2019

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…

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Using Cookies in JavaScript

11/28/2018

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…

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First Impressions of Gatsby

11/18/2018

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…

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My Troubles With JavaScript

09/17/2018

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…

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I'm An Imposter

12/30/2017

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…

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My Developer Journey

12/29/2017

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…

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