Kevin Salter’s Blog

quarter-hour cleaning victory 🚿

A strategy for tackling technical debt

If you’re working on a codebase that’s more than a few months old, there are going to be rough edges. Lines of the code will have been left in a less-than-ideal state– casualties…

Setting up Wordpress locally from scratch on OSX El Capitan

JavaScript: A Brief History

a lunch & learn slidedeck

OSX-style filename truncation with JS

I was recently implementing the specs for a file uploading UI when I encountered this interesting bit. (Fig. 1)

Once a file has been uploaded, the box in Fig. 1 needs to appear in the UI displaying a file type icon, the name of the user…

Writing Epic Unit Tests

unit testing epics when using redux-observable

How to give CSS Colour Variables Awesome Names

$cyan-tifically-proven

Reordering a JavaScript array based on a drag-and-drop interface

Now I have 2 problems…

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular…