It’s the most “basic” type of website: a homepage, a blog, a marketing page. And now there seems to be a new static site generator, or JAMStack framework like Gatsby, or Gridsome, every other week. While many would argue that we should simply build this out on a Vanilla HTML…

Code that works is not enough. Rube Goldberg machines “work”. They’re also inefficient, brittle, difficult to make, and maintain. Code that just works is a very low bar. What people fail to recognize is that writing code is very much like writing an essay or a book. As much as I thought writing essays would be…

This is Part 2 of a multi-part series on Rethinking the Front-end. In this part, we will be looking at a concrete example of designing a relatively large real-world application. — One of the challenges of working as a developer is moving from junior to senior. This means looking beyond implementation and starting to think about design and architecture. Design involves two skills: 1. creating/discovering/considering goals and problems, 2. constructing approaches/solutions.

Component Composition (Part 1) — Beyond the Tools. We as members of the web development community often define ourselves by the tools we use. I’m a React Developer, or I’m a Vue Developer. As great as these tools are, thinking only within that ecosystem is limiting. Only thinking within a single framework funnels your thought process into solving…

What makes how people think different from how computers think is our use of concepts. Reading the news doesn’t simply tell me that tell me that a drinking wine might not be as good to our health as we previously thought (Red Wine is bad for you Say Experts). Because…