They have nothing in common. Well, aside from entertaining my weekend. I’m just bad at blog titles and I’m fed up of writing nonsense like “CSS modularity; theory and practice”. My draft title, which let’s face it, nobody is clicking. Iron Fist is ‘aight I guess. I’m 7 episodes deep and I’m still awake which is an […]
I’ve never had to deal with SSL certificates before. That’s always been someone else’s responsibility. Being ignorant of the technical details, the idea of setting up SSL/TLS wrong scares me. The idea of my visitors seeing those browser warnings scares me even more. And they’re getting scarier by the year. I listened to an episode of […]
Two years ago I converted my website from WordPress to a static build process. It has served me well but the final process was rather messy. Hacks and plumbing to get Metalsmith plugins working my way didn’t helped. Time for a new project! Abstract: rebuild my website using React as the template engine for a bespoke static […]
JavaScript promises are a handy way to write asynchronous code. It’s common to have multiple promises resolve in parallel or series. Let’s say you have several functions that return a promise: It’s easy to run these functions in parallel: But how to run them sequentially? One way is to nest the promises: Nesting gets uglify real fast and some […]
I’ve been playing with React for some time now. React is: “A JavaScript library for building user interfaces”. Unlike other libraries something about React just clicked with me. Back in October a client project came along that presented a golden opportunity to develop a web app. I decided to use React, and I now consider myself comfortable […]
Shopify is an ecommerce platform that offers themeable store fronts online. I worked alongside the wonderful folks at Studio Tangerine to develop a Shopify theme. I’ve documented interesting aspects of the process below. Getting started If you’re familiar with my workflow it will be no surprised that I first translated the design into static HTML & CSS […]
“Accessiblity” isn’t a scary word but many web folks shy away from it. Perhaps because the W3C guidelines are a little scary. The reality is website accessibility affects us all. Not just those of us who cross the threshold into a medically diagnosed condition. “I want to see like the colour blind” is a Chrome plugin […]
