On a new product at work, we’re using Framer Motion for animated container transitions. We also have Cypress for running integration tests… — On a new product at work, we’re using Framer Motion for animated container transitions. We also have Cypress for running integration tests in a Jenkins build via Docker Compose (the client app runs in one container, the Cypress process in another). Cypress has great documentation, and getting started was easy…

Cannon Dill’s Impermanent Knot —

Andrew Hem’s Make it Rain —

Ozabu’s Hedochi —

In 2018, the Ever Imaginative Ian, my dear brother, gave me a copy of The Moleskine Project: a beautiful collection of artwork confined by… — UPDATE: I’m now maintaining this project here. In 2018, the Ever Imaginative Ian, my dear brother, gave me a copy of The Moleskine Project: a beautiful collection of artwork confined by the dimensions of a standard spread of a moleskine notebook. In an effort to engage with the art with…

In my limited experience with death of loved ones, I find the new reality comes in waves. Waves that deconstruct castles and fill holes… — In my limited experience with death of loved ones, I find the new reality comes in waves. Waves that deconstruct castles and fill holes. Like waves, the magnitude and reach of each break and crash varies. Some barely climb the shoreline, others find a way up to previously bone-dry sand.

React was my first front-end love. We had to break up when I moved jobs and started seeing Vue. Of course familiarity bias had me missing… — React was my first front-end love. We had to break up when I moved jobs and started seeing Vue. Of course familiarity bias had me missing React and thinking it better, but eventually I came around to enjoying Vue, even preferring it in certain contexts. One of those preferred contexts…

Where is the sweet spot between good Ruby code and functional style? Use `attr_reader` as a Rubyistic implementation of partial… — I really like functional programming patterns. React, Redux, and mpj inspired my JavaScript style, which has resulted in an overall fantastic experience writing JS applications. …

I recently wrote a three-part series (links below, but humor me on a reflective build-up 😊) on refactoring an imperative for loop to pure… — I recently wrote a three-part series (links below, but humor me on a reflective build-up 😊) on refactoring an imperative for loop to pure function composition in JavaScript. After working on a React-Redux application for about six months, my curiosity about why these functional libraries were so hot was too…