When you think of a CSS media query, chances are you immediately think of min- or max-width. For most of the history of responsive design, it was enough to check the width of a screen to determine how the page should look and behave. Generally, anything more than 1024px wide was considered a desktop, anything […]
After a couple years of a website that simply said ‘Under Construction,’ I’m proud to reveal my Blogfolio! Although at the time of writing I only have a few blog posts out, I plan to heavily expand both the content and the features of this site. Ultimately, this will be the center of my professional […]
There are some things so fundamentally simple that they cannot be misunderstood, right? Everyone must surely grasp their self-evidence. Maybe there are some axioms like this, but it turns out the HTML reset button is not among them — or maybe I’m just not as smart as I like to think! For years, I thought […]
const is one of the new variable types introduced with ES6 to replace var and all of its eccentricities. The oddities of var, its problems, and why we needed to replace it are beyond the scope of this writing. Instead, I want to focus on the oddities of const. Don’t get me wrong, const is […]
Password managers are generally considered an improvement for online personal security. Your passwords being saved in one location may not seem secure, and it definitely comes with its own pitfalls, but a much greater threat to your online security comes from re-using or using simple/common passwords. Having the ability to create a different password for […]
The web is no longer in its infancy. At the end of the second quarter of 2018, there were almost 340 million domain names registered across all top-level domains (.net, .com, .org, etc), and that growth is accelerating 2.4% each year. With numerous free or inexpensive platforms like WordPress, Squarespace, and Shopify becoming more powerful and […]