Nothing is more frustrating when learning full-stack web development than running into the dreaded CORS roadblock Turns out there’s an easy fix: https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com Only one little problem. It goes down from time to time, usually when you need it the most. Fortunately, it’s super easy to create your own cors-anywhere […]
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This video demonstrates the logo animation business wanted to achieve. Basically, it’s one yellow circle and 4 stars that animate in different directions at different times. Fortunately, this can all be achieved using CSS animations. See the Pen gap_old_navy_bright_logo by Mark (@markfm) on CodePen. The raw CSS is pretty […]
Capturing screen animations couldn’t be easier with LICEcap On MAC, the app is installed with a terminal command: `brew cask install LICEcap` Then you can do things like this: Plus, it’s also free!
Here’s a great explanation of React Router 4 — how it’s different (and better!) than version 3.
Creating HTML emails is hard — much more difficult than creating a web page in HTML. Bootstrap and Foundation spoil front end developers. Slap a couple classes in your code and you can have a beautiful, if not at least beautifully rendered, adaptive/responsive site in nearly every browser. Not so with […]
A recent Mac OSX Sierra upgrade killed my MAMP! h/t (https://juanfra.me/2013/01/mysql-not-starting-mamp-fix/) This is actually an easy fix. Just trash your MySQL log files. Navigate to: /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql{xx}/ and delete the 2 log files here. (Don’t worry. MySQL will rebuild them.) They are the files labelled ib_logfile{X} Just move those to the […]
I recently moved to a new project, which meant joining a new team and getting a new computer. This guide has saved me a ton of time and works well to get my computer to quickly feel as comfortable as an old shoe. This is a terrific guide to pimp […]
The iMessage app in iOS 10 provides rich previews of links when they are properly formatted to take advantage of this new feature. In addition, these same links will contain rich previews in other apps too, like Facebook, Reddit, WhatsApp, Skype, Twitter, and others with the same configuration. In the […]
Here’s reality. (Data from the 2016 Stack Overflow survey of 56,033 coders): Mentorship programs have a stronger correlation with higher pay than a university degree There is less than 1% difference in pay between masters degree holders and bootcamp graduates 69% of working software developers are self-taught 43% cite on-the-job […]
Great article: https://blog.gyrosco.pe/smooth-css-animations-7d8ffc2c1d29#.3zm20chcz