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Adam Presley
Adam Presley

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Mar 2

ChatGPT Won’t Replace Me… Yet.

Perhaps you’ve seen articles or tweets positing that A.I. will be the death of the software developer.

AI

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ChatGPT Won’t Replace Me… Yet.
ChatGPT Won’t Replace Me… Yet.
AI

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Oct 20, 2022

How I Wrote a Color Picker in Vanilla JavaScript and CSS

Here’s how I built a color picker using only vanilla JavaScript and CSS, without using any JavaScript frameworks. — Today I was building a form for an administrative user in a web application to define user roles. On this form, the user can enter a name for the role and select a color to associate with the role. I’ve been building this application in old-fashioned JavaScript and CSS. Look…

JavaScript

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How I Wrote a Color Picker in Vanilla JavaScript and CSS
How I Wrote a Color Picker in Vanilla JavaScript and CSS
JavaScript

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Mar 14, 2022

The tools used for editing code, and the reasons behind them, are usually very personal.

The tools used for editing code, and the reasons behind them, are usually very personal. If you are suggesting that someone cannot be productive with Vim, Emac, and their ilk, I would say that assertion is off-base. I've used everything from Eclipse, VS Code, VS, JetBrains, to Sublime, and more…

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Jan 25, 2022

Song of the Siren — How Frontend Frameworks Keep Luring You into Technical Debt
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Marc van Neerven

I wish I could say that I haven't had to (practically) rewrite applications due to breaking…

I wish I could say that I haven't had to (practically) rewrite applications due to breaking framework changes, or that I hadn't had major refactor efforts due to some JavaScript framework that decided to completely break backward compatibility on the next release. Did we have to upgrade to the next…

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Jan 10, 2022

Working in VR with Immersed — Week 1

I got an Oculus Quest 2, the Virtual Reality (or VR) headset, for Christmas. I wanted one for three reasons. Video games Fitness “games” VR workspaces Let me start by saying that I’m loving this thing. The games are fun, the fitness makes exercise more manageable, especially for someone like…

VR

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Working in VR with Immersed — Week 1
Working in VR with Immersed — Week 1
VR

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Sep 14, 2021

I Created the Exact Same App in JavaScript (with Web Components)

Comparing the differences between an app built in React, Vue, and vanilla JavaScript with Web Components — Today I read a rather good piece by Sunil Sandhu that compares writing a todo application in React and Vue. In this article Sunil does an excellent job of describing each block of code, the differences between React and Vue, and why they work. If you are new to either…

JavaScript

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I Created the Exact Same App in Vanilla JavaScript (with Web Components)
I Created the Exact Same App in Vanilla JavaScript (with Web Components)
JavaScript

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Jun 29, 2021

100 Go Mistakes (2022)
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Teiva Harsanyi

Purchased. I've been doing Go for a while now, but never hurts to learn more!

Purchased. I've been doing Go for a while now, but never hurts to learn more!

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Jun 29, 2021

Vim Function to Generate a Comment in Go

OK, I’ll admit it. Sometimes I don’t add comments to describe my Go structs and functions. There, I said it. And after my linter properly chastises me, I dutifully work down the list of errors, adding the code comments… One at a time. I know… I know… I should just…

Golang

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Vim Function to Generate a Comment in Go
Vim Function to Generate a Comment in Go
Golang

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May 7, 2021

85% Of iPad Users Say It’s a Consumption-Only Device
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Mark Ellis

I have an iPad Air (gen 3), and it MOSTLY is used for consuming (i.e.

I have an iPad Air (gen 3), and it MOSTLY is used for consuming (i.e. Facebook, Reddit, Medium, and reading). Occaionally I'll edit a photo on there, and very rarely (if needed) I'll log into a remote server to do some administrative work or light code changes. If I could…

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Published in Level Up Coding

·Apr 25, 2021

Writing a Code Generator in Go

In this post, I’m going to describe how I made a code generator in Go. Why did I want a code generator? There may be a myriad of reasons one would want a code generator. For me, it came down to having to scaffold up the same code for web…

Go

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Writing a Code Generator in Go
Writing a Code Generator in Go
Go

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Adam Presley

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