Den McHenry

Den McHenry @denmch

About: I used to teach Latin, but now I make websites. Still a union worker. Ersatz cartoonist. All around great dad. You can dig my grave in Mammoth Cave.

Location:
Seattle, WA
Joined:
Mar 30, 2018

Den McHenry
articles - 9 total

Favicons in root with Eleventy

It occured to me after fiddling around with nonsense and making silly mistakes all day that the...

Learn More 6 0May 8 '22

Eternal Recurrence

Your going to forget things and make mistakes and be mortified with your own failings. So it goes.

Learn More 2 0Apr 16 '20

Scratch that Itch

This is about giving kids the freedom to explore and experiment in Scratch, and knowing when to step in and nudge them past frustration, or give a lasting insight into good coding practice.

Learn More 8 0Jun 9 '19

Build Your Own TACO

A new mnemonic for organizing information

Learn More 37 3May 19 '19

Relative Font Weights Considered Harmful

The `bolder` and `lighter` keywords may not work the way you expect, so use them wisely, if at all.

Learn More 12 0Mar 31 '19

Falsy Values are N0 FUN!

A simple mnemonic device to remember falsy values in JavaScript.

Learn More 10 0Apr 13 '18

Relative URLs Desmystified

Explaining the meaning slashes and dots in various combinations

Learn More 20 0Apr 2 '18

Ch-Ch-Changes: to shell and back

A brief post about changing your shell from bash to fish and zsh and back again.

Learn More 44 5Mar 31 '18

Using the Wordnik API

Creating a shell function to get quick dictionary definitions on the command line, because, why not?

Learn More 3 0Apr 2 '19