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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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...