Tag: development

  • Learning new technology, again – Angular services vs. React hooks

    Learning new technology, again – Angular services vs. React hooks

    Every four or five years in my career, I need to learn a new technology or coding framework. This time around, after learning AI prompting, harnesses for LLMs, and anything else to do with AI; I find my self needing to learn React after being away from coding for nearly three years (management does that…

  • Digging into CSS variables at runtime

    I’ve had a need to be able to see how multiple CSS variables are computed at runtime. I’m dealing with interactions between SCSS and CSS variables so I needed to know what was happening. There are a few ways to do this in Chrome Dev Tools. One way is in the Styles inspector, you can…

  • Development on a Pixelbook?!?

    Development on a Pixelbook?!?

    I’ve started on a strange journey, one I didn’t think was possible before. I don’t even know if it is possible now, though I have started on it. I’m attempting to do all of my development work and teaching Angular on a Pixelbook. I’m not the first to start this journey, but I haven’t found…

  • On a positive note…

    On a positive note…

    Reviewing the last several posts, it would appear that for a few months that I have been in the doldrums of despair. While that is partly true, it is not where I have spent the majority of my time. At work, I’ve been working on several projects dealing with online video, digital publishing, and helping…