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Here’s five blazing-fast questions and answers with Front End Developer, Grayson Hicks, about everyone’s favorite front-end tool right now.

Two Quick Tips for Getting VS Code Up and Running in macOS

Change one metadata field to allow you to offer much smaller and more efficient static files from S3

How I built the holiest lorem ipsum generator on the internet, and a design for anyone’s React lorem ipsum project.

Making your API calls readable, maintainable, and testable

Four reasons why leveraging snippets in the code editor should be on your developer to-do list.

A reminder that in programming, like in life, it’s the little things that can make all the difference.

Summing up the last few weeks at The Iron Yard. Falling in love with React.js and using it to build my final project.

What is bad code? Does bad code work, but just the wrong way? Thoughts on technical debt compromises as a carpenters tools.

It’s been too long since I posted, and already left some stuff out of my last post. We have been neck deep in Backbone (see what I did…

It’s only been 8 days since I last posted, but we have been doing a lot of coding.

The last two weeks have been an overload of Javascript. The common analogy here is ‘drinking from a firehose.’ I have still had a good…

So last Thursday, we were formally introduced to Javascript in the class. The weekend challenge was to build a fully functioning calculator…

This week we have continued practicing CSS layout, transitions, etc. We introduced Bootstrap on Monday, which opens up its own world of…

CSS positioning may be my least favorite thing ever. I have practiced emulating websites on my own before, as well as with sites like…

About year ago, I had fully come to terms with the idea that I didn’t want my current career to be my career any longer. By May 2015, I had…

Never say never.