Dev/Design Improvements

This week I have been in the middle of a massive project. It had a very sensitive deadline. But, allowed me to see some of the problems that face people in our work. These are nothing new to most of us. But, sometimes it is just good to vent.Working…

The Search For More Youtube

YouTube recently announced their new paid service called YouTube Red. Naturally, I had to sign up for a free trial and see if it was worth adding to my list of subscriptions. FeaturesYoutube Red has three main features that it will add to your YoutTube experience.Ad Free Background Play…

The Future Of Food

Three Products That Want To Change How We EatI hate cooking. There are few activities that I hate more than cooking. As I grow older, I find myself caring more about my health. With this, I have come to realize that cooking needs to be part of my day and…

Squoosh

Web Performance is always a topic that I want to see if I can help automate or just get an edge on some savings. Yesterday, Chrome Labs released a new tool called Squoosh. There are a ton of tools to compress images but Squoosh has a few features already were…

Automating With Puppeteer

Puppeteer is a node package that allows you to control Chrome over an API. Most things that you can do in a browser you can do in Puppeteer. All you need to do to install puppeteer is just run “npm i puppeteer.”One note from the repo is that Puppeteer…

Quick JS: Template Literals

My daily JavaScript journey has brought me to some es6 fundamentals. I wanted to start to build things that were more complicated than some DOM manipulation. I have been going through some courses, and naturally, the instructor has been showing us some of the differences between es5 and es6. As…

Let’s Make Serverless Endpoints

To get our function going, we need to log on to https://webtask.io and make an empty function. Webtask has some pre-built templates, but for this one, let’s start with a blank slate and take this step by step.Next, we need to hit that wrench icon and…

Serverless The Stack

I have been obsessed with this serverless crazy. I have been saving tutorials and articles on all of the different services and things that people have built. As a person, never liked to manage servers and just rather stay with static sites. This is a trend that I like. So,…