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…

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…

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…

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…

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…