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3 Things Every Developer Should Know About Web Components And Html Imports

August 24, 2015 Tagged in:

JavaScript

In a soon-to-be-released project, I decided to give web components a chance. Instead of using frameworks like x-tags or polymer, I went with the plain ol’ vanilla JavaScript web component APIs with little to no external dependencies. Browser support for web components is pretty good, and with the use of... Read more

Minifying CSS in Jekyll with cssify and strip_newlines

April 17, 2015 Tagged in:

jekyll
css

I recently discovered that Jekyll now supports SCSS and SASS files. Which is pretty cool because before you couldn’t use easily use them with github pages. Kevin Sweet the developer who wrote the filters for jekyll 2.3.0 breaks them down in this post In his example you can inline scss... Read more

How and Why Developers Must Always Evolve

March 31, 2015 Tagged in:

opinion

Back in college, my friends and I would always talk about the latest tech news. We would debate the latest and greatest ideas like which Pentium 4 processor was better. It became a competition of who ‘knew’ the most ‘stuff.’ During one of these pre-class chats, one of the guys... Read more

Installing Android x86 on a Gateway LT21 Netbook

March 27, 2015 Tagged in:

A few years back I jumped on the netbook craze and bought the Gateway LT21. I was pretty cool to have a small computer that actually had 8 hours of battery life. But in the last year or so, It became un-usably slow running windows / linux. Leaving it to... Read more

Making default values for date inputs easy

January 30, 2015 Tagged in:

projects

demo github Setting the default value for an input from markup has been done by ` value=”hello world”. I thought this was true for all input types including, date. It turns out that is not the case. Unless the value attribute is in this format YYYY-MM-DD` the input will not... Read more

Looking Back at My First Year as a Tech Lead

January 09, 2015 Tagged in:

Opinion

Over the holidays I started reading Talking with Tech Leads by Patrick Kua. Having just completed reading the novices section of the book and found it spoke to the many challenges that I faced during my first year as a Tech Lead, I though would share some of my own... Read more

Wallpaper Collection

March 17, 2014 Tagged in:

Over the past year I have spent a bit of time every week finding interesting backgrounds for my desktop. I was increasingly getting annoyed with the amount of time I was spending on this never ending project. So I decided to roll my own Windows 7 theme with the backgrounds... Read more

Jesse Baird