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.
I was struggling with writing a test the other day for a React component that was mostly a stateless component, but it did read two properties of the window object and made some decisions based on that. The problem is that Jest makes use of jsdom which doesn’t provide the window object.…
Keep reading How to Fake the Window Object in Jest and Enzyme
I wanted to share some of the experiences that I had migrating this blog from a Wordpress site to a Hugo site. This is more of a technical “how I did it” as opposed to why I did it. Background After deciding to move to Hugo (after many years on Wordpress) it took some trial and error.…
There is a humble CSS Property that gets overlooked a lot, the humble background-repeat. I recently only learned that there a few options other than no-repeat or repeat available to this, and that they have really good browser support. New Keywords There are two CSS level 3 specification additions to the background-repeat property - space and round.…
One thing that I feel has been a blind spot for myself in terms of my development skill set is testing. That is, writing automated tests that help ensure that your code doesn’t break as you make changes moving forward. I’m still pretty early on in this journey, but wanted to share a few things that I’ve learned.…
Keep reading Getting Started With Front End Tests: a Mindset
When I recently moved this site from Wordpress to Hugo, one of the best parts of the process was that I had a chance to do a content inventory of my posts. I highly recommend this to anyone, even if they are not migrating platforms. I had about 120 posts since I had last relaunched my site.…
Keep reading Migrating a Blog - An Opportunity for a Content Inventory
Welcome to the newly hugo-ified ChipCullen.com I’ve been fairly quiet on the blog front for a few months because I’ve had some other personal projects taking up my free time. But, one thing I’ve been wanting to do for a while was to move my site to a static site generator.…
This seemingly comes up for me every six months or so, and I struggle to remember the whys of this. I just thought I’d share this little pointer as a reminder to myself, and hopefully it helps others. Let’s say you have a clickable element, like a button, and you have some kind of inner element:…