December 29, 2024
Back in February of 2016 I created this website using Hugo. I chose Hugo primarily because of its fast builds, but also because it was to use and author content with as it supported markdown. However, I've recently switched my website over to Astro and I'm going to talk about my experience with it and why I made the switch.
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February 28, 2024
With the rise of CSS in JS libraries like Material UI and Chakra, developers have started creating dynamic and reusable styles using JavaScript; however, the performance implications of these libraries have led to the exploration of alternative solutions. One such solution is CSS Hooks, a library that offers a different approach to managing styles in web applications.
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February 2, 2024
Most APIs and applications that allow you to manage content have some form of deletion functionality. Sometimes you may want to make something recoverable after it’s been deleted, or perform the actual deletion later, and soft deletion is a way to accomplish this.
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December 13, 2023
QR codes provide a very valuable way of sharing information with users, and many applications rely on them for various purposes. Common examples of places where QR codes can be useful include but are not limited to theaters, social gatherings and other booking services. Integrating QR codes can seem intimidating, but thankfully they’re not too difficult to handle with Angular and the help of a couple of robust software libraries such as ZXing.
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February 14, 2022
When programming, a lot of time is spent reading and debugging code. When coming to grips with a new framework or library, it is important to know how to debug it when things eventually go astray. Angular has a plethora of useful 1st party and 3rd party tools that will aid you in debugging your application effectively.
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November 9, 2021
GraphQL is becoming more relevant each passing day, and becoming necessary to connect to many APIs on the web. In this post, I'll show you how to connect to a publically available GraphQL API with Angular and Apollo Client. You will need basic knowledge of JavaScript to follow along, and although some basic Angular knowledge is useful, it is not entirely necessary, and I'll explain enough so that anyone can follow along.
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April 21, 2021
When writing software, it can be tedious to test features manually and ensure your entire program continues to work as it evolves over time. We can use automated testing to invoke our program automatically, and ensure it works as expected.
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April 6, 2021
In my previous article we learned how to connect to a PostgreSQL database using the node-postgres package pg. This works fine, and will be perfect for many applications, but one may also choose to opt for using an ORM instead.
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February 16, 2021
If you plan on writing more advanced applications in Node.js, you may find the need to store information persistently. Depending on the needs of the application, you may opt for storing data in a relational database like Postgres. In this article, I'm going to cover how you can use Node.js to connect to and execute queries against a Postgres database.
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December 22, 2020
When working with Node.js you'll encounter code that is run synchronously and asynchronously. When things run synchronously, tasks are completed one at a time. All other tasks must be completed before another one can be started. As discussed in our first Node.js post, Node.js uses an event loop to manage asynchronous operations.
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December 21, 2020
To continue where our last article left off, we'll be showing you how to use npm to download and use libraries in your Node.js applications. Open source libraries will help you write less code and be more productive. The npm ecosystem is diverse and has many thousands of useful libraries that you can use absolutely free of charge!
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December 9, 2020
Node.js is an open source project that allow you to run JavaScript outside of the browser. As a consequence, Node has become very prevalent, and is a popular choice for backend projects.
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August 4, 2020
Our Labs website is written using Gatsby, and uses images in many places. We have images that are both statically hosted, and images that are hosted in Contentful. However, we found that many of our static images weren't compressed as optimally as they could be and were inflating page sizes.
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July 17, 2020
Ginger is a morph target demo that was initially written in 2011 for chrome experiments, and then rewritten to work as progressive web app in early 2016. In essence, Ginger is a customizable head that uses a slider to tweak various facial features, much like a character customization system one would find in a video game. It also supports taking screenshots, and generating share links that can be used to share your creation with others.
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