Your tests aren’t slow because of Karma (or the browser)

There’s been a trend I have been seeing around the front end world where folks are switching their test suites...

Introducing PercyScript: the easiest way to get started with visual testing

Introducing PercyScript: The easiest way to get started with visual testingWe believe that visual tests are the lowest-effort, highest-value tests you...

Hey there! Looks like you’re using TypeScript with your Cypress tests? Is that right?

Hey there! Looks like you’re using TypeScript with your Cypress tests? Is that right?

My first few days with the Ender 3

It’s been a little while since I’ve written a non-technical blog post (or even a post that’s not related to...

Creating an Accessible Custom Checkbox

Native HTML controls work great up until you need to apply custom styling. It’s pretty difficult to style controls like...

Single Page Apps routers are broken

Currently, every major Single Page App’s (SPA) router is broken the second you install it (Ember, Angular, React/Preact/Vue.js, etc). Before...

Using Amazon Lambda to create a contact form

While Hurricane Harvey rains down on Texas I decided this would be a prefect time to build a contact form...

The Impact Developers Have On Peoples Lives

Developers have a much bigger impact on people's lives than most realize.

Heroku, Rails 4, and CORS

It seems out of no where Heroku changed the way you configure CORS. All of a sudden I couldn't post from my ember app to my rails app. I dive into how to solve this issue with a new way to configure CORS.

Ember and Accessible Route Changes

One chink in the Ember Router's armor is when visiting a new route (i.e. clicking a navigation link) it doesn't alert screen readers that the content on the page has changed. Screen reader users have no clue the page has changed.

Throwback: Comparing JavaScript Date objects natively

Today I was playing around with a date picker at work and ran across the question "can you compare two date objects cross browser" Luckily, I have an answer for you! Short answer: yes....

Markdown with syntax highlighting in Ember

I wrote an Ember CLI plugin and blogged a little about it.

Challenges I experienced while updating my about page

I updated my about page to have a new bio, picture, and tie the timeline into my ember + rails app. I just want to high light some challenges I ran into.

Answer: how to pull array modeled data with Ember Data and c3.js

Asking for help: How to pull data for c3.js charts

I'm building out a simple analytics dashboard for my blog and I'm stuck on the proper way to pull data with ember and rails