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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

Jan 11

Leaving Notion to build a second brain in VS Code

#vscode #productivity #programming

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My Personal Portfolio Site (v.2.0)

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

Jan 10

Upgrade My Blog From Plain HTML to "Well-Designed" In 2 Weeks. I Suck.

Thanks for sharing your process! I mean... I definitely would...

Jan 7

Fibonacci Goals

Thanks! So... it's a lot to explain. But to put it succinctly...

Jan 5

Fibonacci Goals

Really like this idea! I think progressive ladder like this c...

Jan 2

NextJS, Contentful CMS, GraphQL, oh my!

Right. That's mainly because Contentful is a CMS, so it's mea...

Nov 5 '20

NextJS, Contentful CMS, GraphQL, oh my!

Hm okay, so it sounds like you have 2 different data sources ...

Nov 5 '20

NextJS, Contentful CMS, GraphQL, oh my!

Fair question! So if you use a function like getStaticProps, ...

Nov 5 '20

Easily parse an excel spreadsheet into JSON

Good stuff! Thanks for presenting the need for it at the top ...

Oct 31 '20

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Ben Holmes

Jan 4

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

#webdev #javascript #git #notetaking

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Nov 4 '20

NextJS, Contentful CMS, GraphQL, oh my!

#react #graphql #webdev #next

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12 min read

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

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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

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Ben Holmes

Jul 29 '19

Using enums with string values in TypeScript? Consider string literals instead!

#typescript #javascript #bestpractices

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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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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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Ben Holmes

Mar 6 '19

Why I'm using Surge and not GitHub Pages

#javascript #webdev #deployment #github

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