As with most projects, getting started is the easy part. When you’re excited about building something new and every change yields big, tangible results quickly, things are great. …
I’m not sure if it’s just me noticing CSS more since I’ve been in the process of redesigning and launching my personal website, or if the rest of the Internet’s excited again about CSS and its powers thanks to folks like Josh W. …
From the first day I started learning to code at my bootcamp, I learned how open, how helpful and how freely info is shared within the web development community. It’s awesome and inspiring (and at times a little overwhelming). So. Much. Information!
But truly, I have such respect for the…
My development team at work jokes that bugs “are just features users don’t know they want yet”. 🤪
But as any good development team does, we try to prevent those bugs from happening to our users in the first place. We know that technical systems are not infallible: network requests…
You know that moment when you’re coding something and think to yourself: “I wish this [text, image, box, insert element of your choice here] would grow or shrink depending on the viewport size… but only up to a certain point”?
If you haven’t experienced this yet, not to worry, you…
Think about it: at the advent of the Internet you could send and receive email, search by keywords for information and visit a few, extremely basic websites. Today, you can: order a car and have it pick you up at your exact location within minutes, make purchases with a credit…
As a web developer myself, I always appreciate when websites go above and beyond being purely functional, and add a touch of fun and magic. A parallax background, a cool animation or page transition, or some other cute Easter egg I wasn’t expecting to find — you know it when…
If you’ve been doing web development for any length of time, you’re probably aware that a lot of our job revolves around data: reading data, writing data, manipulating data and displaying it in the browser in a way that makes sense.
And the vast majority of that data is supplied…
JavaScript’s been slowly but steadily improving as a programming language ever since its inception back in 1995, and lately it seems as though those improvements are coming at a quicker and quicker pace. …
If your web development team is anything like mine, you’ll understand the value and importance of tests to support and continue to verify your application’s functionality (even if you’re not a huge fan of writing tests, which sometimes, I’m not).
Unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests in particular are…
Staff Software Engineer, previously a digital marketer. Frontend dev is my focus, but always up for learning new things. Say hi: www.paigeniedringhaus.com
