The warnings started months ago —[warning] Database disruption imminent, row limit exceeded for hobby-dev database on Heroku app trip-tracker-backend. The italicized portion of the above sentence was the subject line of an email that I received from Heroku regarding an application, specifically the back end of an application, that I…

Lately I’ve been working in revamping a website I had hastily thrown together for my father for a band that he runs, the Penn Central Wind Band. The original page had little thought going into it, other than “How can I get this up as fast as possible? It’s the…

The JavaScript Map data structure was introduced with ES6, which was released in 2015. So it’s definitely had several years to become well-known and well-implemented, but based on my limited experience I would say that it is less important than the typical Object and Array data structures, and you should…

I’ve set out to attempt a redesign of a site that I worked on a few months ago. That site was created with React, and was designed by me with little outside influence, and it shows… It’s a large pale-blue site reminiscent of something that you might have seen on…

Today, I just wanted to write a little bit about a tool that I recently began using as I have become more interested in CSS, and from that interest I’ve started to gravitate towards projects that simply rely on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS without using big frameworks such as React. …

I think that it’s fair to say that most developers have at least some exposure to the box model (pictured above). It defines the layout of the HTML elements on the page, and so naturally anyone who would like to have some level of control over how those elements appear…

I’ve found that with web development there is a huge number of different things that I would have no idea were even possible (or best practice) without explicitly being told so. I think this is especially true with CSS — there are seemingly endless possibilities of declarations and values, many…

As I was working on a new project my thoughts drifted back towards my first forays into the framework, and I remember being baffled by the frequent use of destructuring assignment (DA) that I saw. …

As I began to delve into the world of web development, I began to notice little things on sites, that even though I had always known they were there, I had never truly noticed. I’ve made my fascination with common and subtle little animations abundantly clear, but what I’m referring…