grayson hicks

Learn how to assign a unique, high-contrast color scheme to each VS Code project—without touching shared configs—so you can instantly tell which repository you’re in when swiping full-screen on macOS or clicking between projects.

Discover how to assign a distinct iTerm2 color profile to each project folder (alpha-service, beta-client, gamma-ui) using Oh My Zsh hooks—so your terminal instantly reflects the correct context, even if subprocesses emit ANSI resets.

Five rapid-fire questions and answers with Front End Developer Grayson Hicks, covering what Gatsby is, why it stands out, the learning curve for React and GraphQL, how to get started, and where Gatsby is headed next.

Two quick, practical tips for macOS users to launch projects in VS Code instantly—installing the `code` CLI for terminal-based opens and adding a Finder toolbar button so you can right-click or click to open folders in VS Code.

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.