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Today’s topic is Trig Functions.

My junior developer just came to me asking for help because their linting setup was broken.

Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity.

I’ve been mulling this topic for months now, and I’m pretty firmly of the opinion if you are attempting to do some layout in CSS, you should reach for display:grid first, followed by display:block, followed by display:flex.

I’ve spent a lot of my life feeling… inadequate.

At work we have a standard layout we are using where there is a nav bar on the left hand side of the screen and content on the right hand side of the screen (this gets flipped for RTL languages).

I recently read the post We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them?

This post is gonna be salty, but after years and years of teaching developers to add click handlers to divs, add inputs with no labels, and generally insisting that they know better than you, react has released their version 19 beta and it includes support

Inspiration came from Stu Robson The DevRel Went Down to Georgia (to the tune of The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”) The DevRel went down to Georgia, they had some code to shill They were in a bind, cause they were way behind, and…

LLMs are a great tool if they are used responsibly.

A philosophy that you should always maintain when developing is to Write The Fricken Manual.

I’m trying out some new art direction here at alex.party. let’s see if it works….

I’ve been nerd sniped.

Right, here’s a weird one.

I have recently seen at least 2 people make a wrapper around useFetch in Nuxt 3 incorrectly by trying to call useFetch as though it were fetch.

Last week Chris and Dave mentioned that they don’t get why you have to call super when you’re in a class.

Alright, I’ll admit I am the least qualified person to talk about this.

I’ll admit I went on a bit of a rant the other day on this topic because I find the way people are taught about Currying functions is typically with the least useful examples ever.

I have recently had the opportunity to muse about process and how we maintain a system.

Dave Rupert saw me on stream talk about JSON:API and suggested I write a blog about it.

I’m setting up some automations, and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to let folks know more effectively what it is that I’m writing about and doing lately.

Todd Libby recently posted about the need for conference organizers to support those of us who don’t want to drink.

Jen Simmons recently posted an interesting question about website thinking for 2023, and I waded into the conversation and realized I have strong opinions as a mediocre white guy in tech.

I don’t really like to make resolutions for the new year because I am terrible at following through on them.

Hey Y’all, So I spent this past thursday feverishly working on moving my blog from Gridsome and Netlify CMS over to Astro and StaticCMS and let me tell you what: It has been extremely rewarding.

Well, I am testing out this new astro setup, and using the Static JS CMS to edit my posts.

Chris Coyier had an interesting post on integration vs end to end testing.

So Cassie Evans tweeted this the other day: Frameworks obfuscate away & front-end dev spans so many specialities.

I think I now have a few people reading this, so I should update it more regularly, so let’s get some life updates in here.

So a couple of months ago I purchased 2 of “The Key v2” as an impulse purchase.

Yesterday we went to Hot Betty’s Breakfast Bar for lunch and I figured I’d write down some thoughts.

I don’t have any brilliant insights to share today, or anything like that, I’m mostly just wanting to kinda put out some information because I feel like I should write more regular updates.

This week I had the opportunity to make a Gutenberg block and there are a few things I learned in The process.

I found out that the JavaScript in operator is more versatile than I thought while on stream a couple of weeks ago, so let’s write a post about it so I can explain it to myself later. for Loops Let’s start with the place you might have seen the in operator

Look, let’s be honest.

At the behest of Dave Rupert in the Shop Talk Show D-D-D-Discord, I’m going to talk about my adventures in making an efficient and poorly designed typo-squatting knock-off of CSS-Tricks.com called CSS-Trickz.com, which turned into an experiment in how to…

Vue 3 has been out for almost 8 months now.

Every once in a while, you find a feature of JavaScript you never knew about that has always been there.

I upgraded an app to Vue 3 and I learned some things about it.

I’m diving into react, coming from vue, and I have some thoughts.

I have now added comments to my site.

ES6 classes have been around for a little while now, so let’s talk about a key difference between using them and using a more traditional object prototype extending method of creating JavaScript classes.

I had the pleasure of giving my talk “Dependency Injection in Vue.js” at Connect.Tech 2019.

I recently have updated the styling of my site to have a bit more… character?

My first pass at a talk that is an intro to Vue.js and how you can use it without a build step.

Huzzah for feed readers!

Thoughts on moving to a new system.

Hello world!

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