Joshua Wootonn's blog

How RSI, a split keyboard, and typing through the Psalms led me to build Bible-based typing software for Christian schools.

A programmer's guide to growing plants indoors.

Drag selection is the defacto pointer multi-selection.

Dropdown menus are great until you have interactive content.

How embracing workarounds isn't such a bad idea.

I created an app for typing through the Bible.

How to persist through creative struggle

exploring JS vs CSS animation performance by recreating the sidebars of Notion, Linear, and Gitlab

A bonus post animating our treeview ✨

What keyboard shortcuts belong on a treeview?

What is a roving tabindex?

What is a treeview?

The togglegroup is a modern variant of the radiogroup UI pattern.

The disclosure is the best UI pattern for answering questions.

Creating a slider with a range input sometimes just doesn't cut it.

How to recreate the vercel tabs component with CSS, react transition group, react spring, and Framer motion.

how I write in Notion, own my own content, and do as little manual work as possible

how I finally realized that rest is important and that there is a limit to what I can do

how an extensive software process can impede the real work

how it's fallen short for me and what I am choosing instead

and staying human in your job search.

of all the practical stuff involved in getting interviews, offers, and negotiating well

How to not preoptimize your job search and just apply.

How to identify what is important in your next job and focus on getting there

I have found two common job searching pit-falls.

Job searching is about telling your story.

It's not chronological, not on a high cadence, never finished, and will always value transparency over all.

As a long-time lurker, I have recently discovered why I fall into it and great reasons to stop.

It took a lot for me to settle on creating a frontend engineering and web animation blog.