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

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished November 2019 (at 29)#technology#react2819 words9 mn to 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

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished October 2019 (at 29)#productivity#technology3050 words10 mn to 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

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished September 2019 (at 29)#elm12985 words43 mn to read

If youโ€™ve ever worked with Redux โ€“ in the context of a React application or not โ€“ 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?

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished July 2019 (at 29)#technology1621 words5 mn to 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

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished March 2019 (at 29)#technology2557 words9 mn to 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 โ€œdiminish 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

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished November 2019 (at 29)#technology#react2819 words9 mn to 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

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished October 2019 (at 29)#productivity#technology3050 words10 mn to 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

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished September 2019 (at 29)#elm12985 words43 mn to read

If youโ€™ve ever worked with Redux โ€“ in the context of a React application or not โ€“ 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?

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished July 2019 (at 29)#technology1621 words5 mn to 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

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ englishPublished March 2019 (at 29)#technology2557 words9 mn to 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 โ€œdiminish the effectiveness of content blocking and ad blocking ex...