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My 2020 Predictions & Resolutions for Technology

Development, Miscellaneous

There are already tons of articles out there predicting which emerging technologies will take over, and which current leaders will be de-throwned. This is not one of those articles. Rather, I am going to focus my predictions around my own use of technology, and how things are looking for me going into 2020.

Create a lazy-loading image component for faster Vue.js apps

Development, JavaScript, Optimization, Vue.js

Create a lazy-loading image component in Vue.js that speeds up our apps, has zero dependencies, and works as a drop-in replacement for an HTML image tag.

Vuetensils 0.4: awesome components and helpful directives

Accessibility, Development, Vue.js

The latest Vuetensils includes 2 new components, and handy directives. These make it faster and easier to create robust, accessible UIs with Vue.js.

Development

Another year, another Zoohackathon; 48 hours in the same building with a bunch of nerds, all working together to address wildlife conservation. This year was a blast.

TailwindCSS + Vuetensils = 😍 accessible and composable Vue components

Accessibility, Development, HTML, Vue.js

Vutensils 0.3.10 supports custom CSS classes. Combine it with TailwindCSS for semantic and accessible Vue components with totally custom style and no bloat.

Development, JavaScript, Serverless

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

Miscellaneous

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

Development, JavaScript, Vue.js

Every once in awhile 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

Accessibility, Development, HTML, JavaScript, Vue.js

Checkout Vuetensils if you care about building accessible and lightweight Vue projects, but prefer to use your own custom styles.

Development, JavaScript, Presentation, Video

Short introduction to various features of the JavaScript Intl object, or Internationalization API. Includes some helpful tips to reduce dependencies and bundle size.

My 2020 Predictions & Resolutions for Technology

Create a lazy-loading image component for faster Vue.js apps

Building an offline-first PWA in 48 hours with Vue.js + TailwindCSS

Generating PDFs with Node, PDFkit, and Serverless on AWS Lambda

Financial Advice I Wish Someone Had Given Me

How to prevent browser refresh, URL changes, or route navigation in Vue

Fundamental JS: Intl – An awesome JavaScript multitool