Today’s topic is Trig Functions. I feel like Trig Functions don’t get a lot of love because nobody seems to know what you would actually use them for. I don’t get to go over it in the talk very much. Let’s actually show a demo of where you might want to use something like this. Trig Functions The Trig functions that...

My junior developer just came to me asking for help because their linting setup was broken. I’m writing this very quickly because I want to get all the details down. Junior Dev: “My linting is broken, can you help?” Me: “Sure” get on a call with junior dev junior dev runs linting command which ends with lots of...

Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity. The future of web development is blockchain. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is CSS-inJS. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is Progressive Web Apps. Get on or get left behind. The...

I’ve been mulling this topic for months now, and I’m pretty firmly of the opinion if you are attempting to do some layout in CSS, you should reach for display:grid first, followed by display:block, followed by display:flex. Grid allows the layout element to be in control of how things get placed, where as flex...

I’ve spent a lot of my life feeling… inadequate. There is an anger that flairs up about it too. A lot of this stems from my ADHD and learning disabilities, and that growing up, I had many teachers give me the classic line: “You’re so smart, if you only applied yourself a bit more, you’d be a straight A student.”...

At work we have a standard layout we are using where there is a nav bar on the left hand side of the screen and content on the right hand side of the screen (this gets flipped for RTL languages). The nav bar can be in an expanded or collapsed state. Rather than trying to have multiple media queries for the content...

I recently read the post We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them? over at Frontend Masters Boost, and I realized that it would probably be helpful for me to document real world uses for container queries. Today’s example: A Pagination Component. We recently rewrote pagination at work, and I...

This post is gonna be salty, but after years and years of teaching developers to add click handlers to divs, add inputs with no labels, and generally insisting that they know better than you, react has released their version 19 beta and it includes support for web components and form actions. React has had the...

Inspiration came from Stu Robson The DevRel Went Down to Georgia (to the tune of The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”) The DevRel went down to Georgia, they had some code to shillThey were in a bind, cause they were way behind, and the VP wasn’t thrilledWhen they came upon this young dev...

LLMs are a great tool if they are used responsibly. However when you blindly copy and paste the results, it will make your life hell. Don’t Trust The AI We’re currently having to rewrite large portions of our code at work because of a pattern introduced by an LLM that was 100% wrong. It’s not some small part of the...

A philosophy that you should always maintain when developing is to Write The Fricken Manual. Many times over the years, i’ve heard the advice to “RTFM”. But the documentation wasn’t great. And no one was writing it. This sounds ridiculous, but until recently, the React documentation was spread across blog posts and...

I’m trying out some new art direction here at alex.party. let’s see if it works….