Reading Time: 5 minutesSometimes we don’t want to use a full-blown SPA. And sometimes when we don’t want that full-blown SPA, we do want some SPA-like features likes maybe state management attached to some small element of the User Interface. I ran into … Continue reading
Author: paceaux
Dude, and other pronouns
Reading Time: 16 minutesPronoun is a spicy word these days and let me tell ya: I love spicy food. I figuratively and literally enjoy a delightful sting when I’m partaking in some sort of nourishment. There’s a lot of talk about pronouns but … Continue reading
How to Program Like a Linguist
Reading Time: 12 minutesThis here is a friendly introduction to linguistics for programmers. There are many ways to improve our programming skills: watching videos, reading articles, hackathons, and doing code competitions. But there’s another way that gives us less time in front of … Continue reading
CSS Nesting, the :is() pseudo-class, and a guide to panicking about Sass
Reading Time: 24 minutesThis is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for like two years but haven’t, because it is a complex topic that’s a kind of modern-day Ouroboros where you don’t really know where to start but at no point … Continue reading
Introducing Methodius CLI
Reading Time: 4 minutesPeople are sometimes unprepared to learn that I have a deep (read: unhealthy) interest in languages. Up to and including, “how do you even figure out what makes a language so languagey?” (sidenote: apologies to the mother of the 8 … Continue reading
A Rant about Front-end Development
Reading Time: 14 minutesI am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn’t about you personally. It’s about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choices have made me angry. … Continue reading
Introducing Methodius
Reading Time: 4 minutesFolks who get to know me usually (and regrettably) discover that I am a language nerd. I like learning languages and I like learning about languages. There’s all sorts of things that are fascinating about languages: where they come from, … Continue reading
(Why) Writing (well) is really hard
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn 2023 where servers are cheap and platforms are free, it’s ridiculously easy for anyone to set up a blog and start flinging words at the web. You can become a “blogger” in the time it takes for Starbucks to … Continue reading
The Symbology of JavaScript Symbols
Reading Time: 9 minutesThere have been two things that have appeared in newer versions of JavaScript that I haven’t understood: Symbols and Iterators. When it comes to code I have to learn by doing, no amount of reading Mozilla Developer Network was going … Continue reading
Cyclomatic Complexity in CSS
Reading Time: 8 minutesThere’s a seldom-discussed concept in web software development called cyclomatic complexity which is a metric used to indicate how complex a program or unit of code is. It’s not discussed very often because, well, it’s really not exciting. You can … Continue reading