You’ve seen these all over the internet, a sidebar containing controls that can filter a list, usually products in an online store. At my job as a front-end software engineer, we also made one of these, and I’d like to share with you how it works. MORE
The decade is over, if you count your indices from zero. So I thought I’d share my favourite games and films of the last decade here on my blog. This list obviously doesn’t include every good thing, but these in particular have had the most impact on me. MORE
I recently had to change the names of a bunch of files at work. I thought about how annoying it was going into Finder and renaming individual files, but how easy it was in my code editor to change the references to those files. So I had the idea to write a tool that could open a list of files in an editor, and whatever file path was on each line when the file was saved and closed, that would be the new file path. MORE
Recently at work, I've been using Chart.js to create pie/donut charts. We really wanted the labels to be shown around the outside of the chart, next to each segment. Chart.js doesn't do this out of the box, and the only plugin I found would let the labels overlap. I decided to challenge myself with making my own plugin that would handle overlaps/collisions more gracefully. MORE
When you work on a big codebase with multiple contributors it can be difficult to keep everyone to a specific style of coding. Prettier takes this weight off your team's shoulders and ensures you never have to review code for formatting again. MORE
