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I made a thing – Colour Game
I made another thing in JavaScript as part of the course I’m doing. This time it’s a simple colour picker game. The code is still very rough but the app is effectivly working. If you want to see it in action you…
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Commitment issues
You’ve been spending plenty of time together. You’ve had your ups and downs. As time’s gone on you’ve realised you like the way things are going and it’s time to commit. Writing effective, communicative commit messages can make the world of difference…
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Every team needs a beauty routine
Over the years everyone will develop their own beauty routines when it comes to their individual coding. While it’s easy to become attached to how you like to format your code, in a team environment it’s really important to share the mirror…
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More on issues
The more you understand an issue the better equipped you’ll be to solve it. When I was creating issues in GitHub for Score Keeper, something about the process felt a bit lacking. A developer needs specific details and the system wasn’t working…
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We’ve all got issues
Since I’ve been learning JavaScript I’ve been making an effort to do things as if I was working with others. The idea being that any project of meaning is very likely a collaborative one. To my mind understanding how to effectively work…
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I made a thing – Score keeper
I’ve been doing a web development course for a few months and today I made my first thing that actually does something. Nothing amazing mind you, but it’s a start. Do you ever have the need to keep score in a best…
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Learning from a 579-year-old printing press
Gutenberg is the name of WordPress’ new editor and like its namesake, the Gutenberg printing press, I think it’s going to be a big deal. Recently I’ve been committing real time to upskill in web development. I wanted to go way outside…
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Listen to your heart
JavaScript is responsible for the behaviour of your website/app. At the heart of affecting the behaviour of the page is listening for user interaction events. These are things like button clicks, key presses and drags and drops. To do this, first we…
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This is our concern, Dude
In web development, there’s a concept called “the separation of concerns” between your HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Each language plays a role in web development and it pays to remind ourselves what these roles are: HTML = Structure CSS = Appearane JavaScript…