Colby Fayock

Agentic engineering workflows are quickly requiring more juggling of multiple contexts through different tabs or windows, making it easier than ever to quickly lose track of the work you were doing.

2023 has blown right on by.

Dependabot has historically been on the receiving end of many jokes and memes, from the world’s top Hacktoberfest participant to the occasional onslaught of inboxes when a widely popular package receives a security update.

This has been an interesting year where I’ve been quite productive, but traveling and conferences have made me productive in different ways than I had been the past two years.

This is my second year putting together a content roundup.

Next.js has taken the web dev world by storm It’s the React framework devs rave about praising its power, flexibility, and dev experience Don’t feel like you’re missing out!

For a while I’ve sat on this idea of using the name Colbyashi Maru for some kind of fun content series.

This year has been hard on pretty much everyone in the world, some more than others.

Working at ThinkGeek was fun, challenging, and rewarding.

The process of writing an ebook provided a lot of value in helping me grow as both a developer and content creator.

If you’ve been following along with my work, I tend to talk about maps every so often.

I’m proud to officially launch my first ebook 50 Projects for React & the Static Web.

A common thread in web development thought pieces is why you shouldn’t use a certain framework on your blog or why simply, you shouldn’t overengineer it.

AWS has taken the tech community by storm.

The global pandemic has had widespread effects, not just in how we go to work or go out to eat, but how we socialize and network in our local tech communities.

Websites and applications are complex!

Building quality content can be a really rewarding task, but for those just starting out or those who don't yet have a large audience, that content can easily get buried amongst the other million tweets on Twitter.

Design is a part of the product process that often gets pushed off.

Learning something new is hard.

Writing is an important way for all of us to share our thoughts and experiences.

Becoming a Senior Developer is something many of us strive for as we continue our code journey and build our career.

Writing about our work is one of those things that most of us have on our to-do list.

Getting in the habit of being conscious of your coding decisions can make a difference not only as you build out your project, but also when you or your teammates try to revisit that project in the future.

Building maps can be pretty powerful, but often you're stuck with open source options for the map imagery that might not help the readability of your data.

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has swiftly changed how all of us interact day to day.

Get ready for the summer by building your own road trip mapping app with this step-by-step guide!

Chef Gusteau was a visionary who created food experiences for the world to enjoy.

JAMstack sites are all the rage right now in the web dev world.

Full stack web developers are the Swiss Army knife of the code world.

The Christmas season is a magical time of year.

Managing code snippets and pixels on your website or app to measure traffic can be a little bit stressful, especially if you have a marketing team that constantly needs to make changes.

Linting makes everyone’s lives easier by telling us what’s wrong with our code, but how can we avoid doing the actual work that goes into fixing it?

One of the biggest challenges in software development is time.

Frameworks come and go, and while Gatsby may eventually drift as tech does, the performance and productivity boosts are strong arguments for diving in right away.

Google Analytics is a powerful web service that gives you insights into your website or application.

A growing trend in front end development is the idea that you can dive right in to Javascript and succeed.

CSS-in-JS is all the rage.

Hooks have become a pretty powerful new feature of React, but they can be intimidating if you’re not really sure what’s going on behind the scenes.

One of the messier bits of a new app setup is trying to figure out where to stash your Google Analytics initialization scripts.

Google "webpack react" and you'll notice the top result guides all have one thing in common: they create custom HTML templates for their React applications.

Webpack, even with the HTML Webpack Plugin, doesn’t necessarily give a graceful way of managing simple HTML snippets without putting together ugly custom templates within inline loaders.

I'm pretty active on Slack (most active, ahem…).

Easily set up a blacklist for those marketing lists that somehow get around Akismet.

Easily create a script to batch optimize PNG files in Photoshop using TinyPng's Photoshop Plugin and Adobe's ExtendScript Toolkit.

dpkg-scanpackages isn't designed to take in some of the user defined fields Cydia repos use.

minimal.iOS updated for iOS 8, minimal.iOS.8 is a Winterboard theme for jailbroken iPhones.

With the recent release of Pangu, I was inspired to get back to work on more icon theming.

Check out the details at packagecontrol.io

Finally launched, frostydeals.com is a pet project created by Broc Klein and myself that functions as an aggregator for one-day deals across the web.