Assumptions!

Let's get on the same page. This guide assumes you already have a prettier config and eslint config set up. This will be useful if you want to figure out how to make prettier and eslint Just Work™ in VS Code on...

When it comes to home decor, being stuck inside our own spaces during a global pandemic has mostly driven each of us one of two ways: either wanting to eliminate visual noise around them OR amping up how their personality is reflected...

I've always been a crafty person with an eye for design. I designed all previous iterations of this website! But I'm by no means a graphic/web/frontend designer, so it is super easy to get overwhelmed when planning out a new design.

In July 2020 I found myself as part of the many people affected by COVID-19 related layoffs. Before that, I was writing anything from Elm to Ruby to Elixir at NoRedInk. And before that I was working with JavaScript and React for...

Dear JavaScript,

We’ve barely spoken in the past year but I still think about you. You were my first self-taught language and it built me a career. JavaScript, you taught me to let go some of my perfectionism because it’s so easy to...

Onboarding: follow the instructions and most developers will get set up. But me? I’m not most developers. I’m Katie Hughes and I’m the private eye whose setup always goes awry. That is, until my bad luck met its match: a package...

This was written for my former employer's tech blog, formally known as AppNexus, currently known as Xandr. You can find the orignal post on their Medium blog...

In college I had my nose to the grindstone with school and work and internships that I was never really a side project type of person. When I get home from work now I’m usually not on the computer — I’ll watch TV or run or cook or...

_source: [Spin’s interview...