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Forms are at the core of how users get data into web applications.

There are tons of blog posts on the internet about how frameworks differ and which one to pick for your next web project.

VPNs are a great way to level up your privacy online.

As CSS inches closer to its 30th birthday, it continues to evolve and improve more rapidly than ever.

Interfaces are one of TypeScript’s core features, allowing developers to flexibly and expressively enforce constraints on their code to reduce bugs and improve code readability.

There are a number of reasons you may wish to use HTTPS as part of your web application development workflow: Your app will likely be deployed to users via HTTPS; the closer your development environment is to production, the less likely you are to run into

Mapped types are a handy TypeScript feature that allow authors to keep their types DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”).

Sometimes it’s nice to have a lightweight development container that automatically serves the contents of a directory, for rapid prototyping or building static web pages—without having to setup a tool chain on your local environment or install web server…

Using tsm as a shebang interpreter in TypeScript TypeScript has taken the web development world by storm, becoming increasingly popular for enterprise projects and solo developers alike.

So, you need to add some charts to your app or site?

Version 4.2 of TypeScript was released on 23 February, 2021, and with it a number of nice features, bug fixes, and performance improvements.

Complaints against the complexity of modern web development tooling setups have been ever increasing in recent years as the web platform continues to evolve and innovate.

As with any conversation about performance, we need to gain some shared context around the type of JavaScript code we want to optimize and the context in which it will run.

Creating compound components in React and Angular There’s no question that components are a powerful abstraction for authoring frontend user interfaces (and, it turns out, text-based UIs, application routers, and many other types of interfaces).

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Suppose you have an icon or logo at multiple resolutions and would like to combine them into a single favicon.ico file for your website.

Sass and other CSS preprocessors have some great features and have been widely used for years.

As millions of members of the Church of Jesus Christ around the world study the Book of Mormon together this year, I have been impressed by how similar the challenges, attitudes, and behaviors are between the ancient people in the record and people today.

In this video I try to build a fully functional tabbed preview widget in HTML and CSS from scratch in 30 minutes—without looking at the original code.

Update 12/18/2019 Thanks to an astute Reddit commenter, today I learned about Pascal's Wager, which is strikingly similar to the idea I tried to synthesize below.

In this post I’d like to review my reasoning behind sunsetting an Electron-based application in favor of a Progressive Web App (PWA). tl;dr Choose your platform wisely—you are at the mercy of its maintainers URLs are amazing You really can't beat the dist…

As part of my on-boarding as software engineer at Nuvi, I had the opportunity to read the classic book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M.

I’ve been a longtime fan of GitHub Pages.

I had the opportunity to give a talk on this topic to a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ in South Jordan, UT.

Mistakes are an inevitable and essential part of the human experience.

When creating landing pages, content sites, or blogs, content management systems shouldn’t be the first tool web developers reach for.

I was recently listening to the Shop Talk Show podcast where Chris Coyier shared a submission from a listener that outlined the development and deployment setup for her personal website.

One of my goals for Q2 2015 was to answer ten CSS-related questions on Stack Overflow.

At first, the :empty pseudo-class may not seem to be the most useful of the advanced selectors.

I very recently graduated from Brigham Young University with a master’s degree in Information Systems Management.

I had the opportunity to give a talk on this topic to a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ in Provo, UT.

Some argue that “code snobs” waste time on trivia.

I was listening to a podcast about Scala by Scott Hanselman and Dianne Marsh where programming languages were briefly compared to foreign languages.

At work, the engineering team uses tmux to manage the several instances of the services we run to develop the Lucid suite locally.

When it comes to customizing your Bash prompt to give you more information about the status of a Git repository, there are a lot of options out there.

I had the opportunity to give a talk on this topic to a congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ in Orem, UT.

When life’s challenges affront us, the superfluity of daily life suddenly loses its meaning.

Lucidpress is a new cloud-based-yet-desktop-caliber publishing application.

According to one of the Church’s official websites: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the official name of the religion commonly called the Mormon Church.

The things you can do with CSS these days are amazing.

This video is seriously cool.

What better topic for my first post than my favorite piece of software?