Jun 5Member-onlySave Money: Switch From Spectrum or Comcast to T-Mobile 5G Home Internet!I’ve been stuck on Spectrum Internet (Cable-based) for the past few years. At our residence, the only other option was (slower) DSL. …Verizon3 min read
Mar 2, 2020Member-onlyGatsby: Using Variables and Strings Inside the className Attribute in JSXA simple class name uses backticks to indicate a string with curly braces surrounding them or simply double-quotes: <div className="dark-green large"> <div className={`dark-green large`}> A variable uses curly braces: <div…1 min read
Jan 1, 2020Member-onlyPreserve Your Sanity in ‘20: Do TheseStart your tax return early. Even if you don’t already have your W2, if you’re an employee with one job, it should be fairly easy to get an estimate of your tax burden. If you use a service such as TurboTax, using your last paycheck of 2019, you can start…20202 min read
Dec 13, 2019Member-onlySanity.io (http://sanity.io) CLI (command line interface) cheatsheetHere are few useful commands: sanity dataset list Notice that the command parameter dataset is singular. Displays which datasets the current sanity installation is connected to. sanity projects list Notice…Java Script1 min read
Dec 10, 2019Member-onlyI am an edge case: Why most websites hate meI am American and I live in Italy. That is broken. Most websites don’t understand how to handle me. In this article, I wanted to address how a website decides which content to serve up and how for non-technical people. There are several elements involved in the process of deciding…Internet3 min read
Dec 10, 2019Member-onlyi18n, l10n: are we doing it right?A few years ago, I thought that the problems of internationalization and localization were solved. We have advanced tools such as Google translator toolkit ( https://translate.google.com/toolkit/ and the W3C i18n Checker ( http://validator.w3.org/i18n-checker), but are we really using them? …Localization2 min read
Dec 6, 2019Member-onlyBecome a Gmail Ninja With These Useful ShortcutsGmail’s keyboard shortcuts are useful and can help you ease the burden of checking Gmail, but you need to know how to properly set them up. Certain shortcuts are tucked away in the settings screen, however, and need to be enabled to be used. …Productivity2 min read
Dec 6, 2019Member-onlyIs Email Still Relevant in the ‘Yo’ Age?Email Is Dead! Long Live Email! It seems that at the time of email’s conception, a simple conversion from a written letter to an electronic letter occurred. We began with “dear” and then the name of the reader. We closed the letter with “best regards” or “sincerely” and we simply signed our name. There is no…Email3 min read
Dec 6, 2019Member-onlyNeed A New Year’s Resolution? Create a To-Do List For 2020!It’s a funny time of year in America. Thanksgiving’s alleged tryptophan coma affected not only our stomachs but our brains. Black Friday kicked off a fury of door-busting, shopping, holiday gift-giving, binge eating, and a general carelessness towards our regular daily routine. …Productivity3 min read
Dec 5, 2019Member-onlySanity.io GROQ Compared With SQLSanity.io’s data store stores structured content, and this is a paradigm shift for many software developers who are familiar and used to working with SQL databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. GROQ is Sanity’s open-source query language. Sanity has created an easy way to query their content…Sql2 min read