Working full-time remote is a bit different from the occasional home office. With this ugly virus going around and forcing a lot of…
Someone told me about a post on LinkedIn about working from home, describing how the author had already done the dishes, cleaned half the…
Almost everyone says they take privacy seriously, but almost everyone has an annoying cookie notice because they collect a bit more…
The closest I ever got to gaming was Abe’s Oddysee (I guess Robot Unicorn Attack doesn’t count.) — but I do enjoy the odd game now and then…
There comes a time in some developers’ life when they have to customize an antd theme. It’s kind of documented, but tricky. Here’s a tl;dr…
Dark mode is here to stay, and many websites, including DuckDuckGo, Twitter and my personal favourite Gatsby, make sure they blend in…
A solid CV is crucial to get that first interview. It is a good summary of what you can offer, and if that’s not obvious after a few seconds…
Today we’ll explore how to use Promises within Array methods. For our example, we will look up coordinates for places on Here API.Let’s try…
There’s lots of subtle but very convenient features on GitHub’s UI, one of them is being able to copy stuff from an action menu. Let’s see…
So you have a secret key. I have a public one, but there’s a limit to requests per day in free tier, so it’s better not to commit to source…
In many cases, particularly in Gatsby, pages are wrapped in a component. Today, Iʼll describe a way to test these pages isolated from their…
There comes a time when you need an npm package that doesnʼt exist — or just want to share something with the world. In my case, itʼs a…
A while ago, the household got a mechanical keyboard. I tried it out, and immediately knew I needed a proper keeb. Fast forward a few months…
In the second part, I will turn a simple Lamda function into an API endpoint. If you havenʼt, now is a good time to read Part 1 first :)From…
I’m back to building a weather app, this time not in Flask, but React. I wanted to skip the server part, but DarkSky is strict about CORS…
In unit testing with Jest and Enzyme, a shallow render is a good way to test whether a component works like it should. But with abstract…
Ever seen those styled s when opening the dev console on some random website? Cool, right? Calls to (and , etc.) can be styled with inline…
For this post, I will do what I did with Typing animation with JavaScript: start from zero and experiment my way through the problem, to…
A few days ago I decided I deserved a treat, and bought myself a domain on Zeit.co. My website and blog (this very same) live there for now…
Animated link underlines are fairly easy to do, and make any website more alive. Well, they are not really underlines, rather a separate…
If you’re reading this, you are probably interested in learning how to build web applications. This is good news for at least 3 reasons:It’s…
In my post about loading speed, I promised to write about how I lazy load images. It is a useful technique for when you have large photos…
People hate to wait. More than that, they don’t wait, if your website doesn’t show anything nice or useful in a few seconds, they just close…
Let’s imagine I’d like to show a one-line introduction on my website, but can’t decide what to say about myself. So I’d like to rotate…
SVGs are lovely: they are small, scalable, and easily editable by a developer. They can also be animated using CSS, which means that while…
I love flexbox. It’s… flexible. Today, developers have to think about almost as many resolutions as devices. Things have to shrink (and grow…
One of my first tasks as a developer was to migrate endless tests from Twist to Cucumber. Since then, I have written and refactored…
ProtonMail is a secure email provider for anyone concerned with Google reading their emails. It’s e2e encrypted, which means that there’s no…
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