The Slow and Steady Refactor
28.1.2019
Over the past week or so, I’ve been reading Refactoring by Martin Fowler and it’s all about how to make sweeping changes to a large codebase in a way that doesn’t cause everything to break. I bring this up because there’s a lot of really good notes in this book that have challenged my recent...
Table design patterns on the web
28.1.2019
Chen Hui Jing has tackled a ton of design patterns for tables that might come in handy when creating tables that are easy to read and responsive for the web:
There are a myriad of table design patterns out there, and which approach you pick depends heavily on the type of data you have and...
prefers-color-scheme: CSS Media Query
28.1.2019
One device and app feature I’ve come to appreciate is the ability to change between light and dark modes. If you’ve ever done late night coding or reading, you know how amazing a dark theme can be for preventing eye strain and the headaches that result. macOS recently implemented...
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Sentence Capitalization
28.1.2019
Sentence Capitalization
Often times, situations arise in which we need to manipulate the letter casing of stings within our applications usually for presentational purposes. JavaScript off
Visual Studio Code Starter: MetaGo
26.1.2019
I'm a big believer in spending time to learn tools to make us more efficient in our code editors. VS Code is amazing because of all the productivity fea
Visual Studio Code Starter: MetaGo
26.1.2019
I'm a big believer in spending time to learn tools to make us more efficient in our code editors. VS Code is amazing because of all the productivity fea
Visual Studio Code Starter: MetaGo
26.1.2019
I'm a big believer in spending time to learn tools to make us more efficient in our code editors. VS Code is amazing because of all the productivity fea
Learn Flexbox on an Example Helpful and Enlightening Code Snippets
26.1.2019
Flexbox is a box module system that does not need any introduction, especially for those who uses CSS on a daily basis. It is a real lifesaver when it...
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Need to Test API Endpoints? Two Quick Ways to Do It.
25.1.2019
Here's a possibility! Perhaps you are testing your JavaScript with a framework like Jasmine. That's nice because you can write lots of tests to cover your application, get a nice little UI to see the output, and even integrate it with build and deploy tools to make your ongoing development work...
Creating Your Own Gravity and Space Simulator
25.1.2019
Space is vast. Space is awesome. Space is difficult to understand — or so people tend to think. But in this tutorial I am going to show you that this is not the case. Quite the contrary; the laws that govern the motion of the stars, planets, asteroids and even entire galaxies are incredibly simple....
WDRL — Edition 255: CSS Grid Flex-Columns, Lost Screen Time, Wait and UX Personalization.
25.1.2019
Hey,
The only constant in life is change, they say. And it’s true even if we think nothing changes in life. It’s all only how you perceive things, how you observe things and whether you notice the change or not. In tech, it’s easy, just read a newsletter like this one and see how much changes...
Putting the Flexbox Albatross to Real Use
24.1.2019
If you hadn't seen it, Heydon posted a rather clever flexbox layout pattern that, in a sense, mimics what you could do with a container query by forcing an element to stack at a certain container width. I was particularly interested, as I was fighting a little layout situation at the time I...