Blog Posts
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:2016_09_12Block shuffle: a feature I wish existed
Here's a thing I wish was actually a thing: Shuffling between groups of songs.
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:2014_08_20Filtering Fun with JavaScript.
Ever been in a situation where you have already gathered your results from the server, but you need to do some arbitrary text searching on them? Here's a handy way to do it.
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:2014_06_23Usability and the time I ordered $100 worth of hamburgers.
Do you know what's awesome? Hamburgers. You know what's not awesome? Poorly thought-out checkout UX. Here's the story...
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:2014_04_28Removing sensitive data from a git repository
Christ on a cracker, did I really just commit db/database.sqlite on this rails app and push? Shitballs.
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:2014_01_09Displaying dates with a badge.
One of my recent client projects needed a cool, stylized calendar badge for displaying dates. This was going to be used all over the app, so I decided to helperize it. It came out pretty damn nice, so here's how they look.
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:2014_01_08Teaching is HARD.
Gods. Dammit... and here I thought I'd be instantly good at teaching. A little backstory: my good friend Gray decided that he wants to learn how to code up some internets (because apparently he wants to get asked really poigniant questions when he says he works with computers).
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:2012_11_23Organize your SCSS (like a boss)
I'll admit it... I didn't like the SCSS syntax when it was first added to Sass. I, like many other front-end devs using Sass at the time, thought it was super ugly and pushed too hard against one the main reasons I started using Sass — to make my stylesheets pretty.
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:2010_04_18Stupid jQuery tricks..
I wrote this to clear my head.