Alex LockhartThe Golden Jam of Web StacksOver the course of time my go to tech stack for web development has changed. At one time it was Ruby on Rails with Heroku, then Firebase…Jul 24, 2019Jul 24, 2019
Alex LockhartinDataDrivenInvestorRedeeming the TimeI recently found myself giving time management advice. During this discussion the phrase, “reducing wasted time, redeeming necessary time”…Jul 19, 2019Jul 19, 2019
Alex LockhartPinterest, Facebook, and the Future of Social MediaThe world wide web promised to allow anyone and everyone to distribute content to the world. In previous generations newspapers, magazines…May 10, 2019May 10, 2019
Alex LockhartHow Increasing Calories Affects Intermittent FastingIf I eat more now I will be less hungry later? Right?Nov 22, 2018Nov 22, 2018
Alex LockhartWhen Not to Add Unit TestsRefactoring poorly written code that has little abstraction and does not separate concerns can greatly reduce the risk of defects and…Nov 22, 2018Nov 22, 2018
Alex LockhartI work in the area of web development called web content management or WCM for short.An often first step in the creation of any new feature is defining a form which may include text fields, checkboxes, radio options…Nov 6, 2018Nov 6, 2018
Alex LockhartBidirectional Network of Dynamic DocumentsSo this one is a bit far fetched and hypothetical, but bear with me if you can.Sep 2, 2018Sep 2, 2018
Alex LockhartNo Icon Web DesignOn my about me website I chose to go with a no icon based design for the site. This was mainly a product of how I went about creating the…Sep 2, 2018Sep 2, 2018
Alex LockhartThe Vanilla JavaScript ComponentI started delving into web components about a year ago. I really liked the idea of getting a reference to a custom element and then calling…Sep 2, 20181Sep 2, 20181
Alex LockhartFire CMS as a Single Page ApplicationIn the previous post in this series I explained how to use the Firebase Hosting and the Firestore in order to define a multilingual content…Sep 2, 2018Sep 2, 2018
