Ben Holmes

GA Tech grad and full stack web dev all about good design, good music, and good code

Joined on Mar 6, 2019 https://bholmes.dev

Education

BS in CS @Georgia Tech

Work

Fullstack web developer at Peloton

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Ben Holmes

May 5 '21

Picture perfect image optimization for any web framework

#javascript #webdev #react #eleventy

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Ben Holmes for Hack4Impact

Oct 6 '20

Building a sexy, mobile-ready navbar in any web framework

#webdev #css #react #svelte

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Ben Holmes

Jul 7 '20

Before building your next static site with React, consider this

#webdev #react #gatsby #javascript

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Ben Holmes

May 26 '20

Flexbox diehards: Here's some concrete examples of when CSS grid is just better

#css #webdev #beginners

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Ben Holmes

Mar 19 '19

Why SvelteJS may be the best framework for new web devs

#javascript #webdev #beginners #svelte

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Ben Holmes

Jul 7 '21

Understanding single page apps & client-side routing

#webdev #javascript #beginners #react

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Understanding single page apps & client-side routing

Nope, no reason at all! I was just listing the frameworks I h...

Jul 20 '21

DISCUSS: The blurred line between front-end and fullstack

Fair question! I've been wondering this myself since Chris Co...

May 8 '21

Picture perfect image optimization for any web framework

Oh thanks for the share Shriji! I'd heard of Squoosh but didn...

May 7 '21

I'm building a new home outside of DEV. Here's why (and where to find me!)

Ack good catch! Fixed 👍

Apr 1 '21

4 Git shortcuts that define my workflow

Good callout on repeating the commands! Just added that edit ...

Mar 16 '21

A shiny-on-hover effect that follows your mouse (CSS) ✨

Ah, right you are! I somehow spaced on the fact that currentT...

Jan 29 '21

Mocking browser APIs (fetch, localStorage, Dates...) the easy way with Jest

Ah, right you are! I was confused reading up on Node's global...

Jan 20 '21

My Personal Portfolio Site (v.2.0)

Woah, this is super well designed. Love all the on-scroll ani...

Jan 10 '21

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Ben Holmes

Jun 8 '21

Grabbing subsets of JS object properties with... GraphQL?

#javascript #graphql #webdev

8 min read

Ben Holmes

May 24 '21

Sexy, accessible show-hide animations in any web framework

#webdev #css #react #svelte

9 min read

Ben Holmes

May 12 '21

Want CSS variables in media query declarations? Try this!

#webdev #css #sass

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Ben Holmes

Apr 7 '21

How ES Modules have redefined web development

#javascript #webdev

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Ben Holmes

Mar 31 '21

I'm building a new home outside of DEV. Here's why (and where to find me!)

#showdev #webdev

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Ben Holmes

Feb 18 '21

4 Git shortcuts that define my workflow

#programming #git #bash

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5 min read

Ben Holmes

Feb 10 '21

4 Conference talks that changed my perspective as a web dev

#discuss #webdev #architecture #react

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Ben Holmes for Hack4Impact

Feb 5 '21

Another way to understand JavaScript's array.reduce

#javascript #beginners

4 min read

Ben Holmes for Hack4Impact

Jan 28 '21

A shiny-on-hover effect that follows your mouse (CSS) ✨

#showdev #css #javascript #webdev

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9 min read

Ben Holmes

Jan 19 '21

Mocking browser APIs (fetch, localStorage, Dates...) the easy way with Jest

#testing #javascript #webdev

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6 min read

Ben Holmes

Jan 11 '21

Leaving Notion to build a second brain in VS Code

#vscode #productivity #programming

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8 min read

Ben Holmes

Jan 4 '21

The web dev tools that helped me get s*** done in 2020

#webdev #javascript #git #notetaking

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Ben Holmes for Hack4Impact

Nov 4 '20

NextJS, Contentful CMS, GraphQL, oh my!

#react #graphql #webdev #next

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Ben Holmes

Oct 21 '20

Understanding the spectrum of CSS frameworks

#css #webdev

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Ben Holmes

Sep 2 '20

Writing a state machine in one line with TypeScript

#webdev #typescript #react #statemachines

6 min read

Ben Holmes

Jul 7 '20

Introducing my new personal site, a static SPA built without a framework 🚀

#showdev #webdev #javascript #spa

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Ben Holmes

May 8 '20

How you can (sort of) write SASS @mixins in plain CSS

#css #sass #webdev #preprocessors

5 min read

Ben Holmes

Apr 7 '20

The power of SvelteJS: building an animated image carousel in <30 lines of code ✨

#showdev #svelte #webdev #algorithms

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Ben Holmes

Jan 3 '20

The web dev tools that helped me get s*** done in 2019. Plus, a thank you!

#webdev #svelte #frontend #netlify

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Ben Holmes

Dec 2 '19

HTML5 tags - how do they work, and which ones should I use?

#html #webdev #beginners #frontend

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Ben Holmes

Sep 3 '19

What I learned planning and building an MVP as a frontend dev at Peloton

#showdev #react #git #webdev

10 min read

Ben Holmes

Jul 29 '19

Using Typescript string enums? Consider string literals!

#typescript #javascript #webdev

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Ben Holmes

Jul 11 '19

How much CSS should you know to use a CSS framework?

#discuss #css #webdev #beginners

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Ben Holmes

Jun 13 '19

How to revert your git commits without panicking

#git #beginners #relaxing

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Ben Holmes

May 31 '19

How using CSS variables helped me cut down on JavaScript

#showdev #css #webdev #javascript

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6 min read

Ben Holmes

May 26 '19

Students in web dev: what has been your best learning experience, and why was it effective?

#discuss #webdev #teaching #beginners

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Ben Holmes

May 16 '19

Git + GitHub Best Practices for Teams (Opinionated)

#git #beginners #github #bitsofgood

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Ben Holmes

Apr 29 '19

Let CSS frameworks empower you, not control you

#css #ux #webdev #beginners

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Ben Holmes

Apr 9 '19

A neat DIY solution to animating on scroll (for any framework)

#javascript #webdev #react #tutorial

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7 min read

Ben Holmes

Mar 6 '19

Why I'm using Surge and not GitHub Pages

#javascript #webdev #deployment #github

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Understanding single page apps & client-side routing

DISCUSS: The blurred line between front-end and fullstack

Picture perfect image optimization for any web framework

I'm building a new home outside of DEV. Here's why (and where to find me!)

4 Git shortcuts that define my workflow

A shiny-on-hover effect that follows your mouse (CSS) ✨

Mocking browser APIs (fetch, localStorage, Dates...) the easy way with Jest

My Personal Portfolio Site (v.2.0)