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LOUIS

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Is Github Pages Becoming Abandonware?

So… Github Pages has a problem, Github itself doesn’t release new versions very often ...

VanillaJS and JS Frameworks

This rework of my portfolio site uses the least amount of javascript I’ve ever deployed with a project ...

Jekyll and Github Pages

Github Pages is an interesting offering, for “free” you get a solid web host tied to your Github account ...

The Frontend Framework Curse

The year is 2024 and this site has been around for over 10 years now. In that time I have refactored the nuts ...

There and Back Again (Part 4)

Deciding to port thelocus.co back to Rails for the backend was somewhat jarring. Not because of the code, it was ...

There and Back Again (Part 3)

As a developer, I try to go out of my way to never repeat myself in code. Generally, if I end up using the same code more than ...

There and Back Again (Part 2)

If Redux has one problem, it’s that getting React and Redux to work together requires a lot of very carefully crafted glue ...

There and Back Again (Part 1)

Back in August of 2017 I had a dilemma. I was tired of working on Ruby on Rails applications that were kludges of glue and ...

The Devil's in the Details

One thing I find surprising is that even among engineers, many people don’t look too deep into the details. It should be ...

DevOps and Startups

As I have worked at SocialCentiv, I have encountered a rather interesting dilemma I was unaware of until I began ...

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