The Winter Throat

I like to occasionally write articles about things that pique my interest at work, or opinions that I form over the years.
Gatsby and the new era of site generators

Gatsby and the new era of site generators

🇺🇸 englishNovember 2019 (at 29)#technology#react#writing2815 words9 mnto read

Why Gatsby? One of the greatest aspects of modern web development is how modular and composable everything has become. Building an application these days has become a lot like tinkering with building blocks: piecing together packages, APIs, services and so on. Each doing what they do best. We've learned that reinventing the wheel is (often) not the solution and by embracing interoperability we've...

Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work

Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work

🇺🇸 englishOctober 2019 (at 29)#productivity#technology#writing3050 words10 mnto read

It's safe to say programming, and everything around it, evolved tremendously since the Internet's beginnings. If you've ever created a Frontpage website or battled with Dreamweaver and Flash applications you know we've traveled a long way to get where we are now, and all along this way great strides were made to improve how we work. We got better languages, better tools around them, better integra...

A nice app on Elm street

A nice app on Elm street

🇺🇸 englishSeptember 2019 (at 29)#elm#writing12985 words43 mnto read

If you’ve ever worked with Redux – in the context of a React application or not – you may have heard numerous times that it was inspired not only by Flux (which it followed) but also by the Elm architecture. This is something that is thrown around a lot by people in the React ecosystem, and looking at the Elm homepage it may seem difficult to see the link between a strictly-typed language and a JS...

Why do we use bad color schemes?

Why do we use bad color schemes?

🇺🇸 englishJuly 2019 (at 29)#technology#writing#learning1615 words5 mnto read

As developers we've grown accustomed to color schemes in our terminals, our editors, our websites. But why do we love them and sometimes prefer some to others? Why do we sometimes use bad color schemes and what makes one?

Chrome alternatives for devs

Chrome alternatives for devs

🇺🇸 englishMarch 2019 (at 29)#technology#writing2555 words9 mnto read

What's up with Chrome? Recently Google has been in the headlines a lot due to an upcoming change affecting Chrome, which you can read about a bit more over here but the gist of it is the following: The proposed design changes would replace the API relied upon by privacy extensions like uBlock and Ghostery with another designed to “diminish the effectiveness of content blocking and ad blocking ex...

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I like to occasionally write articles about things that pique my interest at work, or opinions that I form over the years.
Gatsby and the new era of site generators

Gatsby and the new era of site generators

🇺🇸 englishNovember 2019 (at 29)#technology#react#writing2815 words9 mnto read

Why Gatsby? One of the greatest aspects of modern web development is how modular and composable everything has become. Building an application these days has become a lot like tinkering with building blocks: piecing together packages, APIs, services and so on. Each doing what they do best. We've learned that reinventing the wheel is (often) not the solution and by embracing interoperability we've...

Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work

Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work

🇺🇸 englishOctober 2019 (at 29)#productivity#technology#writing3050 words10 mnto read

It's safe to say programming, and everything around it, evolved tremendously since the Internet's beginnings. If you've ever created a Frontpage website or battled with Dreamweaver and Flash applications you know we've traveled a long way to get where we are now, and all along this way great strides were made to improve how we work. We got better languages, better tools around them, better integra...

A nice app on Elm street

A nice app on Elm street

🇺🇸 englishSeptember 2019 (at 29)#elm#writing12985 words43 mnto read

If you’ve ever worked with Redux – in the context of a React application or not – you may have heard numerous times that it was inspired not only by Flux (which it followed) but also by the Elm architecture. This is something that is thrown around a lot by people in the React ecosystem, and looking at the Elm homepage it may seem difficult to see the link between a strictly-typed language and a JS...

Why do we use bad color schemes?

Why do we use bad color schemes?

🇺🇸 englishJuly 2019 (at 29)#technology#writing#learning1615 words5 mnto read

As developers we've grown accustomed to color schemes in our terminals, our editors, our websites. But why do we love them and sometimes prefer some to others? Why do we sometimes use bad color schemes and what makes one?

Chrome alternatives for devs

Chrome alternatives for devs

🇺🇸 englishMarch 2019 (at 29)#technology#writing2555 words9 mnto read

What's up with Chrome? Recently Google has been in the headlines a lot due to an upcoming change affecting Chrome, which you can read about a bit more over here but the gist of it is the following: The proposed design changes would replace the API relied upon by privacy extensions like uBlock and Ghostery with another designed to “diminish the effectiveness of content blocking and ad blocking ex...