Generating PDFs with Node, PDFkit, and Serverless on AWS Lambda
This post covers the minimum to create a Serverless function on AWS Lambda which generates PDFs using Node and PDFKit. No Express, HTML parsing, or S3 uploads.
Financial Advice I Wish Someone Had Given Me
Throughout my career, I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of mentoring others. It’s usually about software engineering, but often we get into tangential things such as finances. It’s come up enough times and folks have been grateful, so I thought…
How to prevent browser refresh, URL changes, or route navigation in Vue
Every once in a while in Vue, you want to prevent the user from navigating away from a route or reloading the page. This post covers how to do just that.
Easily build unique, accessible, and lightweight Vue components
Checkout Vuetensils if you care about building accessible and lightweight Vue projects, but prefer to use your own custom styles.
Fundamental JS: Intl – An awesome JavaScript multitool
Short introduction to various features of the JavaScript Intl object, or Internationalization API. Includes some helpful tips to reduce dependencies and bundle size.
JavaScript tips, tricks, and shortcuts for productivity
A collection of several JavaScript tips and tricks I have picked up in my career. Many of these I did not know for a while and wish I learned sooner.
HTML Forms, Accessibility, Semantics, and more (with Vue.js)
Transcript So, I want to go over this topic about some form inputs of the checkbox radio because I saw this comment come up in the Vue.js Developers Facebook group the other day and I just wanted to address it…
Vue.js functional components: What, Why, and When?
Using Vue's functional components can increase rendering performance by 70%. This article explores what, why, when, and how to use functional component.
Accessibility Tools & Resources
I, personally, am a fan of making the web more accessible. I like the idea that more people will be able to use the things I build, and I like the challenges associated with building a more accessible web. Here…
How I Find Cheap Flights
In my life, I’ve done a good bit of traveling. Sometimes it was a work trip with very specific dates and locations. Other times it was to go to a conference, and I’d tack on some extra time for site…