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The Problem of Having Too Many Technologies to Choose From
There are constantly new technologies coming out on the market. While this might seem like a great thing, there are some darker sides to it that no one seems to talk about.
Vue.js: Route-Level Code Splitting with a Page Loader
Vue.js makes it easy to implement router-level code splitting. Page loaders are a great way to indicate that your application is loading.
Reducing the Number of WordPress Plugins
One of WordPress’s greatest strengths is its positively huge plugin ecosystem. There are plugins for just about everything you can think of out there. At the same time, however, it is also its Achilles’ heel.
WordPress vs a Custom-Made Website
There are valid reasons for choosing WordPress to power your website, but there are also many good reasons for creating a custom-made website. In this article, we will explore some of them.
Why Changing an Interface Too Often Is Bad for Users
Despite what a lot of application developers think, changing a user interface too often is bad for users. It confuses users and generally generates distrust in your product.
Windows 95 as an Electron App
An operating system that was released 25 years ago and required an entire computer to run can now instead be run in a browser window with an interpreted language.
Debugging Node.js Remotely with Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a tool with many talents. Among those is the ability to not just debug Node.js applications, but also to debug them remotely.
Coping with Long Meetings at Work
Meetings have always been the worst part about any job for me. They make me anxious and stress me out so I have developed strategies for coping with them.
Retro Software: BeOS
In the early-1990s, a lesser-known operating system was born named BeOS. It was an operating system that was ahead of its time, but was never able to gather much support.
Emulating Mac OS 9 on macOS 10.15
Several years ago, I bought an old, colorful iMac G3 running Mac OS 9. It runs my old software wonderfully, but an emulated version of Mac OS 9 on my modern MacBook Pro is just so much more convenient.
Automatically Compile SASS Using Node.js and Express
For about two years I have been using Grunt to compile my SASS files into CSS for projects for work as well as for personal projects such as this website. This workflow has served me well and I still use it for most of my PHP-based projects. However, I’ve come up with an even easier and faster solution for my Node.js-based applications.
How I Try Out a New Technology
Trying out a new technology can be a bit tricky, so a set of specs for a test app is necessary to give the tests meaning.