Ryan Nickel

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Just a guy, on the web, doing some things.
Websitehttps://ryannickel.com
LocationToronto
Cheat CodeA,B,A,C,A,B,B
Githubhttps://github.com/mrnickel

The One True Code Value: Why Maintainability Is The Unsung Hero Of Programming

https://ryannickel.com/html/the_one_true_code_value_why_maintainability_is_the_unsung_hero_of_programming.html

RyanNickel.com - The One True Code Value: Why Maintainability is the Unsung Hero of Programming

NPM can be very frustrating, and in my opinion, the defaults set you up for failure. https://ryannickel.com/html/how_npms_defaults_set_you_up_for_failure.html
RyanNickel.com - How NPM's Defaults Set You Up for Failure

Giving @obsidian a try. I like that it's a free app. I like that it's self hosted, and I like that it has a snappy beautiful UI.
Loving the footer of the Caddy site. haha

https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-09-28-introducing-enhance-music

Really good article outlining how one can use native browser technologies in order to do advanced things. I didn’t think a UI like this would be possible without something like React and creating an SPA.

The web is an incredible platform

Introducing Enhance Music — Begin Blog

Today, the Enhance team is excited to introduce our latest demo app: Enhance Music — a music library and audio player app built with HTML and CSS, and progressively enhanced with a couple pinches of JavaScript. Despite being built as a traditional multipage website, Enhance Music features an audio player that persists across page loads, and some gorgeous interactive UI built entirely with web standards.

Begin
The TypeScript documentary comes out tomorrow, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6s2pdxebSo
TypeScript Origins: The Documentary

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Use web components for what they’re good at

Dave Rupert recently made a bit of a stir with his post “If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?”. I’ve been working with web components for a few years now, so I…

Read the Tea Leaves

“Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship”

I’ve wondered too about the field’s refusal to reevaluate tech, sticking with ideas about CSS, HTML, and JS that haven’t been correct for a while now, and the lack of curiosity about the foundation we’re building on https://pdx.su/blog/2023-07-26-tailwind-and-the-death-of-craftsmanship/

Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship • pdx.su

The personal blog of software engineer Jeff Sandberg

No, you can't have any JavaScript until you've finished your HTML.