Essays

Taking shortcuts in code to race a world record holding speedrunner. On March 3, 2021, I got signed up for a rather interesting battle of…

Why learning to code has been one of the best choices I've ever made. At a macro level, software is eating the world . The top 5 most…

For a long time I've been a fan of digital solutions for real-world problems. Parents won't get you a dog? Tomagotchi. Need a way to connect…

After a year being closely involved on the docs for Gatsby , I've learned a thing or two and have started seeing patterns in it and other…

I've been attending BYU since Fall of 2013, and I've learned a thing or two along the way. As I approached graduation, I often found myself…

(Gatsby v2.3.25) Gatsby recently announced themes, and I got excited. Upon reading through all sorts of write-up on them, my response at…

As I’ve evaluated contradicting opinions in different areas of software engineering and development like bootcamps vs college degrees, this…

The console is one of the first tools developers learn about. The console is the tool developers use when debugging their own applications…

Like many people, I have no shortage of ideas for apps that don’t genuinely need to exist. I tend to hold onto those ideas waiting for some…

Making Animation Approachable Being a wizened guru of CSS used to be a barrier for entry to designing complex motion animations. Libraries…

If you’re like me, you jump through a lot of hoops to get Sass or Less to cooperate with a project, just to make it easier to add some…

Shave off hours of work with a simple to use React component built for images. Optimizing images hardly sounds like an ideal afternoon of…