James Doyle

My Editor Situation In my previous article about Sublime Text (Why I Still Like Sublime Text In 2025), I mentioned all the reasons I still like using Sublime Text over any of the other editors I have tried.

I recently updated my a11y accessibility checker tool with improved accuracy, better logic, and a more polished user experience.

Super Webhooks for Chrome I was looking for a way to send details of web pages, or page context, to my automation tools like n8n, Zapier, or IFTTT.

I created a live coding playground for Alpine.js with Tailwind CSS support.

I have been playing with game development lately and have found it to be a really refreshing break from working in the web development space.

If you have ever seen that annoying popup in Chrome?

My Recent Use Case I recently had to make a small sever that would be the endpoint for a webhook from Twilio.

I still get people asking me why I use Sublime Text in 2025 given there are soooo many other great editors out there.

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If you aren't using Hammerspoon on OSX, you are missing out!

The number pad Number pads can be pretty handy.

Good bug reports Reporting bugs can be very difficult when you are not a developer.

I have been running this blog on Hugo for quite some time.

There is a method on Laravel collections called when that allows you to create a condition on your code without using an if statement.

At my job, we like to keep our team updated with all the dev work we do each week.

If you are using TailwindCSS along with their extension for completing tailwind classes but you are using styled components, custom attributes/props for class names, or packages like twin.macro, then autocomplete for class names might not work properly for

I recently got a Raspberry Pi model 4+.

Recently, I needed to create a app that could recreate a form from static JSON and then fill it with values from another source.

One of the great things about lodash is that it gives you all the building blocks to create some really powerful functions.

If you are familiar with lodash you may also be familiar with one of the very handy functions called memoize.

If you have ever encounter a big refactor, you were probably dreading the steps it would take to get all the changes done.

I'm working on a project right now that requires us to have a search modal.

Have you ever created a switch component that just shows and hides an element?

If you haven't heard of Tailwindcss before, what is going on?

Have you ever used permalinks on a site?

Did you know that you can use localstorage as an event bus between same-origin tabs?

If you are working with server-rendered apps (your view is compiled on the server down to HTML), and you are a Vue.js user, then you should definitely learn to use a Vue feature called slots!

If you're like me, you're probably constantly running into issues with the flexibility of Shopify themes.

So you may already know that you cannot detect if an liquid page is running in the theme editor.

If you don't know about Zapier, it's a service that allows you to "automate everything".

Working with WordPress multisites can sometimes be a pain.

OK, so you want to make Laravel a multi-lingual (or just multi-functional) site based off the subdomain?

This is a reprint of the README from my project simple-slack-slash-supplier.

There has been a lot of fanfare around the idea of GraphQL lately.

If you haven't heard about the cool new search indexer Sonic you must be living under a rock!

Function currying.

You won't believe number 3!

I was playing with a new project using Laravel 5.7 and I wanted to use sqlite for the cache feature that comes with the framework.

Note: This is an older project/repo that uses the previous version of Angular (v1.x) so keep that in mind.

Over the past few weeks, I have been working on a boilerplate/starting template for using the Nuxt.js framework with Firebase.

If you are a fan of DigitalOcean, or you keep an eye on DevOps news, then you probably heard about the new DigitalOcean Spaces offering.

Photo by veeterzy on Unsplash Over the last seven years, I have been involved in hundreds of website projects.

Have you ever been writing a search for MySQL and had an issue where the search wouldn't handle spaces properly?

Sometimes, browsers just don't behave.

Have you even done a database search (using the DB facade) and got back an array of results that wasn't wrapped in lovely little Eloquent Models?

I am one of those people who likes a lot of colors in my shell.

When building more traditional Vue.js applications, I tend to use mixins a lot.

Installing the latest version of Node.js on the Amazon linux AMI can actually be a little painful.

Lately, I have been trying to learn golang.

I had a project the other day that needed to make some HTML strings based on some other data in my code.