After an outage seven days ago, unpkgd.com, a widely used CDN for NPM packages, is again down. This time, the outage is more severe. …
Front End Development
Fixing the color-adjust shorthand is currently deprecated warning in Autoprefixer
As much as I love front-end development, the ecosystem can sometimes inflict unnecessary pain. Given the front-end ecosystem relies on very …
How I Avoid Front-end Developer Fatigue
For years now, bubbling underneath the surface there has been a proverbial sewer of Javascript frameworks and libraries flowing through the …
Thoughts On VueJS
As many readers of this blog know, I have been quite actively involved in Aurelia for over two and a half years now, it's actually almost …
Karma and Sauce Launcher Issue (tests timing out/not running on Sauce Labs)
This is a bug I recently encountered with Karma and the Karma Sauce Launcher plugin. It plagued me for a week, finally I worked out the …
How To Change/Overwrite Colours In Bootstrap 4
Well, this one just stung me and a client after migrating from Bootstrap v3 over to v4 in a project. In Bootstrap of yesteryear, you …
You Don’t Need a Degree To Be a Front-end Developer
As a self-taught developer, it's easy to feel like you missed out on something, and assume your colleagues who did get a degree know more …
Yarn Slow In Windows? Disable Windows Defender
I switched to Yarn a while ago, because Npm is incredibly limited. And while I enjoy fast speed on macOs and Linux, Windows has always been …