Codepen has been my default way to prototype and play around with some ideas for front end work. It has long been an essential part of my workflow. Codepen has enhanced their embedding capabilities with Prefill Embeds.All you need to do is wrap your code that has a few…
For a while, it felt like all these new features were coming in. The hidden attribute falls into the category of I never know this was there but can be extremely useful. The hidden attribute is the same thing as display: none…
I am always looking for new ways that we can speed up all of our web properties. There has been a lot of new features that we have been able to tap into. Chrome pushed out native lazy loading for images and iframes. Support for new browser standards like prefetch…
There is a lot that makes me scared every day. I feel like an imposter most days. I feel like I am not worthy of the things that I am trying to create. But, I have been trying and I have been compelling ideas. I have been doing what I…
This is going to be a short post. I’m trying to write with Google Now voice dictation. I wanted to test voice accuracy of this and to see if this would be a viable option to try to get some things down.In the future, I think we will…
I have been playing around with React in some codepens for some time. Then I tried to make something live on a site and I was warned that I needed to precompile my script. It was a great learning experience but I realized for a lot of the development work…
The goal this year was to read 20 books. It is New Years Eve and I am short just one book. I might try to sneak in a little reading time today but as of writing I am at 18 books. I also have a habit of reading anywhere from…
A few months ago, I took some intro to user experience classes online. I wanted to get more familiar with some different areas and get a better understanding of the entire process. I have always wanted to design more and learn more about other parts of the stack then I…