Shannon Crabill

Front-End Software Engineer

Baltimore, MD Joined on Apr 6, 2017 http://www.shannoncrabill.com

Education

Art Institute of Washington, Flatiron School

Work

Senior Email Developer at UnitedHealthcare

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Shannon Crabill

Aug 30 '20

Drab to Fab: Makeover Your Project README In 3 Steps

#beginners #bestpractices #tutorial

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Aug 17 '20

Amending Git Commits

#todayilearned #git #beginners

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Aug 10 '20

Approaching Problems like a Software Engineer

#computerscience #career #algorithms #codenewbie

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Feb 2 '20

Debugging Has Many, Through Relationships in Ruby on Rails

#ruby #rails #oop #beginners

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Oct 25 '19

Environmental Variables & Hiding Sensitive Information in Ruby

#ruby #sinatra #security #tutorial

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Shannon Crabill

Jan 11

focused breathing - A CSS animation to help with meditation and focused breathing exercises

#dohackathon #css #html #javascript

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What was your win this week?

I took a marketing certification on a whim and passed, haha

Sep 18

Staycation 2021

Your mental health is so important that any damage has a rip...

Jan 28

Emoji traffic jam generator!

This is so much fun! I am a big fan of emojis and generative...

Jan 16

Jan 13: DEV Daily Discovery

Remembering which method to use on a Javascript array was dif...

Jan 13

Jan 13: DEV Daily Discovery

I was going to suggest this one too!

Jan 13

My Favorite Bash Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts

Ooooooh, these tips are great. Thanks for sharing!

Jan 12

Do you have a habit of over-engineer your projects?

Oof, I'm in this title and I don't like it. I for sure shoo...

Jan 11

focused breathing - A CSS animation to help with meditation and focused breathing exercises

It means a lot to hear you say that. Thank you.

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Jan 5

Automatically Open the Current Directory in VS Code From Terminal

#todayilearned #productivity #beginners

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Dec 28 '20

Orphan Branches in Git

#git #tutorial #beginners #webdev

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Dec 21 '20

Doing the `.split()` with Javascript

#todayilearned #javascript #beginners

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Dec 14 '20

How to Base64 Encode a String in Terminal

#todayilearned #coding

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Nov 29 '20

Open Graph for Personal Projects

#html #tutorial #beginners #webdev

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Nov 18 '20

A Beginner’s Guide to Managing React State with Hooks

#react #javascript #beginners #codenewbie

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Oct 5 '20

You Don’t Have to Participate in Hacktoberfest

#hacktoberfest

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Sep 27 '20

Queer Eye Text Effect in HTML & CSS

#showdev #css #html #tutorial

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Aug 2 '20

vh and vw units

#html #css #frontend #beginners

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Jul 14 '20

Do you buy domains for personal or side projects?

#discuss

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Jul 5 '20

Coding Everyday Is Fun—Until It Isn’t.

#webdev #coding

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Jun 16 '20

Which CSS concepts do you find confusing?

#discuss #css

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Jun 15 '20

Using State in React to Pop Bubbles

#react

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Jun 12 '20

Is there a list of all DEV topic-specific accounts on Twitter?

#meta

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May 2 '20

Abstracting Click Events in React

#react #javascript

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Apr 17 '20

Have you changed your professional development goals since COVID-19?

#discuss

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Mar 22 '20

Explain React State & Props Like I'm Five

#explainlikeimfive #react

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Mar 9 '20

What do you do when you have writers block?

#discuss

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Feb 14 '20

Singular or Plural? A Cheatsheet for Ruby on Rails Generators

#todayilearned #ruby #rails

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Jan 26 '20

What is the ideal length for a technical blog post?

#discuss

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Jan 18 '20

I've Rediscovered How Fun Javascript Can Be, Ask Me Anything!

#ama #javascript

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Dec 27 '19

How do you refactor personal projects?

#discuss

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Oct 26 '19

Which ruby book would you recommend?

#discuss #ruby #rails #books

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Shannon Crabill

Oct 6 '19

What was your first Hacktoberfest contribution?

#hacktoberfest #opensource #git

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Aug 22 '19

How do you balance social media and work?

#discuss #productivity #watercooler

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Aug 12 '19

What color are your office walls?

#discuss #watercooler

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Aug 1 '19

How do you pass the time when you can't fall asleep?

#watercooler

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Jul 31 '19

Is there an art to naming projects?

#discuss #projects

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Jul 23 '19

Three Impactful Insights from Codeland 2019

#techtalks #community #motivation #codenewbie

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Jul 21 '19

What would your dream tech conference look like?

#meta #community #tech

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Jul 15 '19

Do you prefer handwritten or typed notes?

#watercooler #dicuss #productivity #learning

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Jul 15 '19

How I Approach Notetaking as a Developer

#writing #productivity #programming #coding

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Jun 26 '19

Asking for Help as a Developer

#beginners #codenewbie

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May 1 '19

Advice for (first time) remote workers

#discuss #advice #career #remote

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Apr 16 '19

Should you include in-progress bootcamps on your resume?

#career #resume #advice

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Mar 27 '19

Sick beats, tutorials & podcasts, oh my!

#discuss #motivation #learning #career

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Mar 8 '19

Nevertheless, I coded, coded & coded

#shecoded

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Nov 16 '18

I'm an email developer and totally not a spammer. Ask me anything.

#ama #email #development #design

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Sep 26 '18

I created and maintained my first open source project for Hacktoberfest. It got spooky. Ask me Anything.

#ama #hacktoberfest #opensource #github

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focused breathing - A CSS animation to help with meditation and focused breathing exercises