Critical CSS vs Purge CSS First off, it's only fair that I tell you up front that I strongly dislike the concept of critical css. I get the page speed impact, but if you've been a web developer
The Dev Life: 2/13/20 - Organizing Code Yesterday I mentioned that I was starting a new project that involved initializing a new repository/service using react. I basically spent the whole day on that today, but I want to kind
The Dev Life: 2/12/20 This is the first post in a theoretical series, so I'll explain my idea briefly. I graduated from DeVry University in 2012 with a CIS degree and zero understanding of what a real
Never quit! Never surrender! Ok, that's a slight misquote from Galaxy Quest ("Never give up, never surrender"), but I want to talk about quitting vim today, so I'm taking creative license. There's a lot of jokes about
Let's Build an Express App - Part 2: Error Handling In the last post, we did some basic setup for our express app to respond to GET requests at / with an HTML response that included "Hello world." Here's what we had in app.
Let's Build an Express App - Part 1: Setup Express is a popular Node.js web server framework for declaratively exposing routes and handling http traffic to those routes. In this post, we'll get started building a web app based on express,
Motions, Operators, and Text Objects: An Introduction Motions and text objects are two related, but technically different, concepts in vim. Motions are a commands that move the cursor. They typically work in normal mode, in addition to other modes. f,
Ghost on Heroku (part 3) I've written a couple times already about how to host a Ghost blog on Heroku. I thought, after part 2, that maybe it would be easier the next time I wanted to update
An Introduction to Javascript Variables (part 2) I wrote recently about javascript variables and how to create them in code. At the time, I didn't realize there would be a part 2 to that, but it occurred to me that
Why I Continue to Use Vim Most of my coworkers use modern IDEs/text editors, including Sublime Text, VS Code, and WebStorm. I continue to use vim. Every time we have a conversation about this, there's always the same
