Responsive spacing with viewport and ch units
How I used vw, vh and ch units to achieve responsive spacing in my new design.
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.
Blog Posts
Welcome to my New Design - 2019
My site gets a makeover for 2019. Here’s all about it.
Django Templates: Block and If statements don’t work like you might expect
Django templates may not respect if statements around block usage the way you expect. I found that out the hard way.
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Books I Read in 2018
7 of the best books I read last year - 3 fiction, 4 non-fiction.
Lifehack: 4 ways to help tame common email noise
A few handy tricks to cut down on the noise in your email inbox.
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How to make better Pull Requests: Adding Steps to Test
Do your pull requests languish for days before someone finally gets around to looking at it? Is the feedback that you get unhelpful? Are you finding nasty bugs in your code only when someone looks at your PR’s? I’ve been there. And I know a better way - follow along!
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Troubleshooting Adding and Removing EventListeners: with Arguments, Debounced, and in a React Class
The other day I was struggling with a bug that was caused by an eventListener not being properly removed in a React Component. I struggled for a long time with why the eventListener wasn’t getting removed, and learned several things along the way I wanted to share. The original component, and the issue The code in question followed this pattern:…