Tag Archive: documentation
Why we should all care more about higher-level documentation, a way to view documentation as a funnel, and an explanation of how things have changed.
A list of things I wish I had known sooner about using pytest and some general tips on usage and productivity with it.
I wrote several of the posts in this series, on how to build static web sites with the Gatsby.js framework, working with a Senior Technical Editor to get articles from idea to publication.
How to determine point intersection or collision detection with Canvas paths, with or without tolerances / buffers / padding.
Reasons why every developer should care about documentation. Personal, business, and practical reasons why writing documentation is worth it.
How to use TypeScript, or JSDoc-powered JavaScript, with Service Workers, as well as some important caveats for current issues.
NodeJS-powered automation that extracts all the tutorial docs out of the Svelte repo and combines them into a single formatted HTML document.
A guide on using SVG files with Svelte, and how to embed, inline-directly, or reference them, with or without rollup plugins.
A step-by-step guide on how to deploy a Preact app from a nested subdirectory, with instructions on updating Webpack, preact-router, and more.
An effort to collect, categorize, and summarize some of the common CSS custom properties that are being used to maintain colors in modern theming approaches.
Want a clear visual indicator in your app or documentation so you know *exactly* which commit was pushed and successfully deployed? Then this post is for you.
An experimental project that delves into the idea of rendering non-video content in Picture-in-Picture windows, use-cases, and a discussion of the future.
Exploring different ways to append videos to a MediaSource instance with SourceBuffers and appendBuffer calls. Includes fully functional examples and tips.
How VSCode Snippets can be used to add support for a customizable Emoji-Log picker, with just a few lines of code you can paste into settings.
How to use various tools to extract the word count from a markdown file, or even the summed count across multiple nested markdown files.
How to get a list of all files in a project or directory, with inclusion and exclusion rules applied based on a .gitignore file.
How and why to use OS temporary directories to create files outside your source code directory for scripted tests.
How to use Google Forms for quick user feedback collection, bug reporting, and the pros and cons of this approach.
How to generate the perfectly sized cover images, with any input image, using Cloudinary's URL based transformations, overlays, and effects.
How to use .env files that are in a different directory than a docker-compose YML file, with variable substitution and relative paths. Options and workarounds.
Information about public Reddit APIs, building post preview embeds, parsing Reddit JSON data, and an example of a custom Reddit embed generator.
Work in progress - compiled tables of keycodes and related information for ASCII, QT, X11, and more - in one Google Spreadsheet, as well as some SQL stuff.
