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Mar 16, 2021

La Strophe de la Faunesse Rouge

Indeed, the pain is not pain, but the most exquisite of emotions for which the name “longing” is simply not sufficient. First published in Encounters With the Imaginary Vol. 3, from Boneshaker Press. Mother — always musical, always sad, always dancing — will not dance again, the physicians say. She…

Illustration

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Published in Irrelevant Code

·Mar 30, 2019

Write Proper CSS: Be Careful With the Descendant Selector

This is one in a series of byte-sized tips and tricks for upping your CSS game. In an era of frameworks, compilers, component libraries, and data-binding, most who call themselves front-end developers are making less and less time to hone their CSS skills and architecture their CSS properly. The role…

CSS

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Write Proper CSS: Be Careful With the Descendant Selector

Published in Irrelevant Code

·Mar 18, 2019

JavaScript Deep Cloning, and Value vs Reference

If you’ve spent any time learning the quirks of JavaScript, or ever been caught unawares by side effects when trying to copy arrays or objects, you’ve likely run across conversations comparing value to reference in JavaScript. It can be a tricky topic. Value vs Reference In nutshell, JavaScript’s primitive data types are passed…

Java Script

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Published in Irrelevant Code

·Mar 16, 2019

Write Proper CSS: No More Resets

CSS

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Published in Irrelevant Code

·Mar 16, 2019

Write Proper CSS: Headings and SEO

SEO

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Published in Irrelevant Code

·Mar 5, 2019

A Full Course in GSAP for Front-End Animation (Part 2)

In the previous article in this series, we explored GSAP’s TweenMax object, the .to() method it exposes, and how to utilize this method with the appropriate arguments to achieve custom animation effects with minimal fuss. But there are other methods which are exposed by the use of the TweenMax object…

Animation

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·Feb 28, 2019

So You’ve Learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; Now What? (Part 4)

Understanding the package.json file — Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Read Part 3 here. This is part 4 in a long series on first-steps for bootcamp grads or solo learners who have invested time into learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as a path towards becoming a web developer, but find themselves mired…

Java Script

5 min read

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·Feb 26, 2019

A Full Course in GSAP for Front-End Animation (Part 1)

For those unfamiliar with GSAP by GreenSock, it’s an extraordinarily powerful JavaScript animation library that allows developers to…

Web Development

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A Full Course in GSAP for Front-End Animation (Part 1)

Published in Irrelevant Code

·Feb 22, 2019

So You’ve Learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; Now What? (Part 3)

Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. This is part 3 in a long series on first-steps for bootcamp grads or solo learners who have invested time into learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as a path towards becoming a web developer, but find themselves mired in the alphabet soup…

Github

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So You’ve Learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; Now What? (Part 3)

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·Feb 19, 2019

So You’ve Learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; Now What? (Part 2)

Read Part 1 here. This is part 2 in a long series on first-steps for bootcamp grads or solo learners who have invested time into learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as a path towards becoming a web developer, but find themselves mired in the alphabet soup of frameworks, deployment tools…

Java Script

4 min read