Hi, I'm Robert DeLuca
I love all things front-end, from designing great user experiences, ensuring they're accessible, crafting them in CSS, and powering them with JavaScript. I'm all about that OSS, that OSS, no closed source.
I also love to collaborate with other developers! If you would like to pair on a problem you can reach me here or on twitter (@robdel12)
2020
Tutorial: Visual testing for Gatsby and Netlify with Percy
As one of the most popular “static site” generators, the React-based Gatsby has been adopted by thousands of teams to...
2019
Announcing Percy’s GitHub Actions
We’re always looking for ways to make it easier for developers to get started with visual testing. That’s why we’re...
2019
Automatically shut off your Ender 3 after prints complete
I recently have been running longer prints that sometimes finish in the middle of the night (or day when I’m...
2019
New Percy SDK: End-to-end visual testing with TestCafe
We’re excited to introduce our new TestCafe integration!TestCafe, the node.js end-to-end testing tool, provides a quick, free, and open-source way...
2019
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...
2019
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...
2018
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...
2017
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...
2017
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...
2016
The Impact Developers Have On Peoples Lives
Developers have a much bigger impact on people's lives than most realize.
2015
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.
2015
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.
2015
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....
2015
Markdown with syntax highlighting in Ember
I wrote an Ember CLI plugin and blogged a little about it.
2015
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.