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We never see all the years of hard work it took for people to have their viral moment.

I tried to imagine that today was a weekend where I had lots of free time.

A version of how I thought my life would look died today.

Quiet the noise.

I love object-oriented programming.

The standard way to dynamically update HTML content in Ruby on Rails relies heavily on DOM IDs.

Yesterday, I got my first conference talk proposal rejection.

My work designing and developing the superdb.org website is finished.

I am loving this API for working with React state.

A 9.0 earthquake shook my front-end world when I discovered “layout primitives” at every-layout.dev.

Two articles I read this week have inspired the heck out of me.

I made a quick screen recording using the VSCode debugger to break on a line of code in my NodeJS electron process.

The one thing missing in every budgeting application is the “Spending Commitment”.

Does this sound like you?

This is the syntax for setting an output parameter in a Github Actions step. echo "{name}={value}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" Here’s an example of using this syntax in a workflow step. - name: Expose the artifact path id: paths run: echo "artifact='app-setu…

Many people ask me about how to dynamically set the width and height of the Tree component based on its parent using react-arborist.

My first programming language was Ruby.

Imagine hanging out with someone all day who berates you.

After 13 years of JavaScript, I finally have a way to remember how the comparator function in Array.sort() works.

The Monaco Editor is awesome.

I just published a JavaScript library called transitions-all-settled that allows you to wait for CSS transitions to settle before you do something.

There are only two types of transactions.

It's not uncommon to see this type of single element React component. function Title({ children, ...rest }) { return <h1 {...rest}>{children}</h1>; } If you use a library like styled-components, you’re very much encouraged to write in this way. const N…

I love this quote by John Cutler from his post on disincentives.

Any two people in a close relationship are bound to eventually hurt each other.

I have enough food in my kitchen.

This is a great podcast episode about company culture.

I was just in the gym and as I lifted a weight I thought of the energy flowing out of me to lift it.

I love pipes.

Comets are constantly falling.

Swords drawn, Draw blood, Blood in the water Recover, Respond, Respect Cross the line, Cut too deep, Feel the heat Reach out a hand, Pull up to stand Love wrapped up in a sheath This was written on a backpacking trip where eight men hiked for four days in…

A common distinction in React is Controlled vs Uncontrolled components.

A child knows nothing about itself.

I was talking with a group of friends trying to come up with possible answers to unanswerable questions like: What happens when we die?

I’m working on a React app that has frequent data transitions.

While at a playground this weekend a man talked to my 3-year-old son in a way that upset me and I had to do something about it.

Experiences compress into memories.

We took a trip down to Joshua Tree this weekend for a cousin’s wedding.

We build an engine for it.

I’ve owned a full frame camera for over 5 years.

When I’m angry I stop needing everyone to like me.

This post is half rant, half guide.

I watch Netflix because I’m too tired to do anything else.

What if we didn’t think of God as infinite.

All the time at the playground I hear, “good sharing!”

Whenever a class needs a few arguments in TypeScript, I cringe because I know I’m going to need to perform a ceremony to make it happy.

I’ve got an electron app that needs to be built on all three platforms.

What do I do when my component uses a ref internally but also needs to forward a ref from its parent?