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Zell Liew 🤗

Nov 28 '23

Splendid Astro Spacing — A Tailwind Utility for Astro

#node #caching #splendidui

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Nov 20 '23

Easy caching on the local file system with Node

#node #caching #splendidui

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Nov 7 '23

zlFetch now supports FormData!

#zlfetch #node #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Zell Liew 🤗

Sep 27 '23

Limitations of Scoped CSS

#css #astro #svelte

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Zell Liew 🤗

Sep 22 '23

Quality of life improvements for zlFetch

#zlfetch #node #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Zell Liew 🤗

Sep 18 '23

The Magical Dev School Student Portal is live!

#productupdates

3 min read

Zell Liew 🤗

Sep 12 '23

Finding my roots in my business

#musings #business #reflection

3 min read

Zell Liew 🤗

Jul 25 '23

Here’s how to quickly test components that use container queries

#containerqueries #css #astro

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Zell Liew 🤗

Jun 27 '23

When building components in Astro, you might not want to use Astro files

#astro #svelte

2 min read

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Zell Liew 🤗

Jun 20 '23

Best practices for container queries

#css #containerqueries

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Cover image for Overcoming styling frustrations caused by Astro islands and slots

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May 25 '23

Overcoming styling frustrations caused by Astro islands and slots

#astro #css

7 min read

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Jun 10 '23

Building fancy list items in Astro

#astro #node

5 min read

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Jul 12 '22

Best way to install Node and keep it up to date

#node

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2 min read

Cover image for A library to make localStorage easier to use

Zell Liew 🤗

Jul 4 '22

A library to make localStorage easier to use

#localstorage #javascript #browserapi

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Cover image for Don't be ashamed of tutorial hell

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Jun 27 '22

Don't be ashamed of tutorial hell

#learning #advice

5 min read

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Jun 20 '22

Getting a cookie's expiry value on a server

#node #cookie

2 min read

Zell Liew 🤗

May 29 '22

Understanding CSRF Attacks

#security #node #express #javascript

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Jul 8 '21

Dealing with anxiety during job interviews

#interview #beginners

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Jul 5 '21

Why I'm super excited about Astro (a new static site generator)

#astro #tooling #staticsitegenerators

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6 min read

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Zell Liew 🤗

Jun 23 '21

How I hired an executive assistant that I'm happy with

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9 min read

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Jun 16 '21

How and when to use Async and Defer attributes

#javascript

5 min read

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Jun 10 '21

Trying Your Best is really bad advice (and strategy)

#philosophy #learning

12 min read

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Jun 7 '21

Rapid Mac Setup for Frontend Development

#mac #tools #workflow

5 min read

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Zell Liew 🤗

May 24 '21

Using Gulp with Dart Sass

#gulp #css #tools #sass

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4 min read

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Apr 29 '21

Prettier and Standard in VSCode

#writing #vscode #tools #javascript

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2 min read

Zell Liew 🤗

Apr 29 '21

Disabling languages for Prettier (in VScode)

#writing #vscode #tools #javascript

2 min read

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Apr 26 '21

How to remember JavaScript

#writing #javascript #learning

3 min read

Cover image for Overcoming 7 main problems of learning to code for people who don't have a developer job

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Apr 21 '21

Overcoming 7 main problems of learning to code for people who don't have a developer job

#writing #advice #systems

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9 min read

Cover image for How to debug a Github Actions' secret

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Mar 25 '21

How to debug a Github Actions' secret

#github #tooling #devops

1 min read

Cover image for Deploying to a server via SSH and Rsync in a Github Action

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Mar 18 '21

Deploying to a server via SSH and Rsync in a Github Action

#github #tooling #devops

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7 min read

Cover image for Understanding how to use Github Actions

Zell Liew 🤗

Mar 12 '21

Understanding how to use Github Actions

#github #tooling #devops

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8 min read

Cover image for How to use Reduce in JavaScript

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Feb 26 '21

How to use Reduce in JavaScript

#javascript

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4 min read

Cover image for Choosing between Netlify, Vercel and Digital Ocean

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Feb 19 '21

Choosing between Netlify, Vercel and Digital Ocean

#serverless #servers

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Zell Liew 🤗

Jan 9 '21

Case Conversion in JavaScript

#javascript

5 min read

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Nov 19 '20

What's the difference between an Interface and an API?

#javascript

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4 min read

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Nov 11 '20

The Flavors of Object-Oriented Programming (in JavaScript)

#javascript

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Nov 5 '20

Understanding JavaScript Prototype

#javascript

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Oct 29 '20

Testing JavaScript Performance

#javascript

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Zell Liew 🤗

Oct 15 '20

A JavaScript Utility... Library?

#javascript

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Zell Liew 🤗

Sep 29 '20

How to improve without receiving feedback

#learning

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Zell Liew 🤗

Sep 17 '20

How to create sites with winding SVG paths

#svg #learning #css #design

3 min read

Cover image for Why use Getters and Setters functions

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Aug 27 '20

Why use Getters and Setters functions

#javascript

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4 min read

Cover image for Creating a deep-assign library

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Aug 20 '20

Creating a deep-assign library

#javascript

8 min read

Cover image for Copying properties from one object to another (including Getters and Setters)

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Aug 13 '20

Copying properties from one object to another (including Getters and Setters)

#javascript

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Aug 5 '20

Getting the horizontal and vertical centers of an element

#javascript

2 min read

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Jul 29 '20

Polymorphism in JavaScript

#javascript

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6 min read

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Zell Liew 🤗

Jul 9 '20

Arrow Function Best Practices

#javascript

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Zell Liew 🤗

Jul 2 '20

Getting CSS Translate values with JavaScript

#css #javascript

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Jun 25 '20

How I work with arrays

#javascript

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Zell Liew 🤗

Jun 18 '20

Snowpack + Eleventy + Sass + PostCSS

#tooling #snowpack

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Zell Liew 🤗

Jun 12 '20

First look at Snowpack

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Zell Liew 🤗

May 27 '20

Customised (and effective) Visual Studio Code keyboard shortcuts for Mac and Windows

#vscode #mac #windows

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Zell Liew 🤗

May 21 '20

Syncing Visual Studio Code settings between Mac and Windows

#vscode #mac #windows

4 min read

Zell Liew 🤗

May 13 '20

Bash vs Zsh vs Fish

#windows #shell #setup

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May 5 '20

Preventing a Windows PC from adjusting the screen's brightness automatically

#windows #setup

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Apr 30 '20

Emulating Mac's Dvorak-Qwerty- on Windows

#windows #setup

9 min read

Cover image for Building a Simple CRUD app with Node, Express, and MongoDB

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Apr 23 '20

Building a Simple CRUD app with Node, Express, and MongoDB

#node #mongodb #express #javascript

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Apr 16 '20

Setting up Windows for web development

#windows #setup

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Zell Liew 🤗

Apr 9 '20

A Simple CLI for Convertkit

#cli #convertkit