With The Flip of A Switch — Recently, at Parallax, my team and I released a sweeping update to our user interface. We updated buttons, inputs, selects, dialogs, and many other visual elements. What follows is an explanation of one small part of that effort. Problem In the summer of 2021, my team and I were presented with…

The Lucky Jade Build — Introduction I wanted to share with you today my latest mechanical keyboard build. It’s been a little over two years since my last build, and this makes my 3rd full build. I am by no means an expert, but I have been lurking around the hobby for a number of years. …

By Using GitHub Actions To Run Jest Test Suites In Multiple Parts — At Parallax, we use Jest to test our application. One of my primary objectives is to make it easy as possible for my team to add tests. As of this writing, we are somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 tests. Most of the tests are unit tests. About half of…

…And How I Got It Back Again — I switched from VSCode to WebStorm and I couldn’t, for the life of me, get prettier to auto-format. After months of using a keyboard shortcut, one of my colleagues was able to find the issue and we got it fixed. TL;DR Are you using WebStorm with the VSCode Keymap and auto…

Let’s put some of the theory from Part 1 to work — Welcome to Part 2 of A Beginner’s Guide To Building Shareable React Components Series. In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the theory behind planning sharable react components. A Beginner’s Guide To Building Shareable React Components, Part 1: Theory A solid plan leads to a solid foundationnategeslin.medium.com Today, we’re going to put that theory to work and plan out a sharable react component!

A solid plan leads to a solid foundation — Over the years, I have been lucky enough to be part of several projects where we built component libraries. Or built components that were shared across multiple projects. Most of these projects used React, some used Angular. …

A high level guide on how to get started — In my very first software engineering interview I remember a question that was asked. “What is one thing you’d like to accomplish in the next 5 years?” My answer was “Contribute to open source”. At the time, I had no idea what that even meant. I hear about it all…

The Belafonte Build — I’m starting to build a nice little mechanical keyboard collection. I have a few 60%, a 65%, and a 75%. These are great, and I love each like a child. One thing I did not have was any kind of ergo split or Alice-type layout. I wanted one. I have…

The DOM is expensive. Use it only when you need it. — Recently at Parallax, we noticed our UI test suite was taking longer and longer to finish. This was on the order of minutes, so not a major problem. At least not yet. It was a problem affecting development, though, and lengthening the feedback cycle. This was something we wanted to…