Hi, I’m Chip. I’m a Front End Developer living in the Washington D.C. area, currently working at PBS. My background is in design, so I approach development with a designer’s eye.
A way to protect analytics events against refactors and unintentinal breakage - analyics classes in your HTML.
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How we went about removing jQuery from a large application that had depended on it for many years.
I launched a small side project a couple weeks ago, and I wanted to share more about it: ColoRosetta - a utility for translating colors The point of this tool is to be a one-to-many color translation tool. I’ve wanted something like this for years - a way to see one color, but see how it translates into multiple color spaces at once.…
Best practice is to add width and height attributes to image elements in HTML to improve browser layout performance.
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In Django 3.1 the project updated the default ‘referrer-policy’ to be ‘same-origin’, which might lead to unexpected results in your project.
A walk through the typical JavaScript pattern that we use at my work.
A quick look at the relatively new, but well supported, min(), max() and clamp() functions and how you might use them.