Reading Time: 4 minutesEver heard that Arabic has 10 million words? That English has a million? French has 80,000, or that the Alaskan Inuits have no word for love but 16 for snow? Why is that?
Author: paceaux
Weird JavaScript: Why do you get an empty string when you add arrays?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m going to have an occasional series about weird stuff in JavaScript. Let’s kick this off with a weird question: Why is it that when you have [] + [], you get an empty string (”) ? Isn’t this against … Continue reading
Why is Problema Masculine in Spanish and Portuguese?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBecause its origins are Greek I had a Spanish professor (who was Greek) years ago who explained that, just about any word with a “-ma” ending was a Greek word and should be treated masculine. That doesn’t mean the word … Continue reading
Good-enough JavaScript Practices
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m not Kyle Simpson or Jordan Harband. I’m not some massive JavaScript influencer and OSSer who’s writing new lint tools and utilities. But I am a dude who loves code standardization. So I want to share some good-enough JavaScript practices … Continue reading
How to override a Drupal 9 module template
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou’re doing your thing: Writing some markup for some Drupal template. Turns out a lil’ part of your template uses something coming out of a Drupal module. Like maybe Fences is just trying way too hard and you need to… … Continue reading
CSS: How to target an exact amount of classes
Reading Time: 3 minutesCSS continues to offer new ways to select things in ways we never could’ve imagined in the past (especially for an old timer like me). Today I want to focus on a possible (but not always probable) use-case: I have … Continue reading
Introducing the Form Baseline
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo a good while back I released this CSS utility / NPM Package called typography-baseline. It was a handy way to kickstart complex web projects because it set base typographic styles. Then I needed something for tables. And then I … Continue reading
Introducing the Table Baseline
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo a while back I released this CSS tool / NPM Package called typography-baseline.css. It was a pretty handy way to kickstart projects because it set some baseline styles to all my typography. More recently, I’ve come into some situations … Continue reading
Leaving Tridion
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m very sad to announce that January 14th will be my last full work-day with EXLRT. On January 17th, I’ll be joining Red Hat as a Senior Drupal Developer. So I’m not just leaving my company, I’m leaving a little … Continue reading
The Law of Screen Shares
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s 2021. We’re somewhere between one and thirteen years into the pandemic. Time isn’t really relevant any more, but what is relevant is what the hell is going on in your Zoom / Slack / Teams / Skype / Google … Continue reading