Sometimes web development projects are extremely engaging, and other times they can feel like a drag. I have found that when I’m working in code, for me, this tends to be a more fun process. Especially when I am doing something more complex. The more complex it is, the more fun I have. You’re a …
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If I don’t want to be the best in the world at web development, why am I doing it? This is a question that Seth Godin brought up in his book, The Dip. The obvious answer would be that it is just a job to pay the bills. Which in some sense is true. When …
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The Dip is a short book by Seth Godin, where he talks about the struggle that takes place after starting a new endeavor – a career, business, entreprenurial venture, hobby. The struggle is The Dip that happens after the start of our venture, and continues before the J curve starts going up, and we really …
What is the point of having goals? They allow us to go closer towards some kind of life and freedom that we want. I think it’s important to have goals as they help us to guide our way. I think Tony Robbins or someone said that having a goal is like having a destination and …
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I feel that the most fun I’m having when doing web dev is actually when I’m doing programming, rather than working in a GUI like WordPress or Divi. I enjoy the nature of solving puzzles, and building custom solutions with pure code. There’s something very creative and technical about it, and there’s something that just …
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This post is in regards to the “Live Sass Compiler” VSCode plugin. Sometimes we want to “Watch Sass” in only certain folders. For example if we have some plugin files in our project folder, we don’t want to watch all it’s containing Sass files when we click “Watch Sass”. See this post as a video …
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Sometimes we have a React component that needs to pass many state values to its parent. Sometimes we even have grandchildren or props several generations deep that need to set state to their grandparent. See this example: Instead of passing all of that state as props to the child component, we can actually just save …
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The HTML “text” input name For a text input, the name is part of the data sent to the server when the form is submitted. The name is paired with the input’s value, and these are sent to the server in the form name=Chris (if your input value was “Chris”). value The value of an …
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I was having trouble finding out how to add functions to TypeScript interfaces. When I finally found out how I decided to write this. I’ll show the format immediatly below: We can see that to create a type for a function, we need to use the format functionName(nameForArgument: [argument type]): [type] . We need to …
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