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Writing — Page 33
A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.
developmentDec 24, 2015· 3 min
Why Would You Use a Fixed Header?
A take on why fixed headers are almost never the right choice — how they cover content, frustrate users, and only make sense in the narrow case of…
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developmentDec 8, 2015· 2 min
Vue.js Component Messaging Continued
A follow-up to the Vue.js component messaging post — exploring a prop-based approach to namespaced events so multiple instances of the same component on a…
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developmentDec 7, 2015· 4 min
Vue.js Component Messaging
A walkthrough of how to pass events between sibling Vue.js components — using the root Vue instance as a message bus to dispatch alerts from any component…
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developmentDec 5, 2015· 2 min
Experimenting With Laravel and Vue.js
First impressions of Laravel and Vue.js coming from the WordPress world — covering Elixir, Homestead, Blade templates, and Vue's reactive data model, with…
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developmentSep 29, 2015· 3 min
Setting Up Your Shell
A beginner-friendly guide to setting up a better terminal on Mac — installing iTerm2, switching to zsh, and customizing colors and fonts so the command line…
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developmentSep 20, 2015· 2 min
Don't Fear The Shell
An encouragement for developers intimidated by the command line — why the CLi isn't as scary as it looks, and how tools like zsh, iTerm2, and OhMyZSH can…
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developmentSep 13, 2015· 2 min
Installing Linters Atom
A walkthrough for setting up and configuring linter plugins in the Atom text editor — covering both the Preferences UI and the APM command-line tool for…
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developmentAug 30, 2015· 3 min
Installing Linters Sublime Text 3
How to install and configure SublimeLinter and its language-specific plugins in Sublime Text 3 via Package Control — the right way to get real-time linting…
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developmentAug 27, 2015· 3 min
Linting Your Code: Installing the Linters
A guide to installing the prerequisite linters for your development workflow — PHPCS with WordPress Coding Standards, JSHint, JSCS, and SCSS-Lint — before…
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