Alex Riviere articles - 31 total
Grid First, Flex Third
I’ve been mulling this topic for months now, and I’m pretty firmly of the opinion if you are...
Recent Container Query Use: Content next to navigation
At work we have a standard layout we are using where there is a nav bar on the left hand side of the...
My Recent Container Query Use: Pagination
I recently read the post We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them? over at...
React 19 Beta: Fine I Guess Web Standards Are Okay
This post is gonna be salty, but after years and years of teaching developers to add click handlers...
The DevRel went down to Georgia...
Inspiration came from Stu Robson The DevRel Went Down to Georgia (to the tune of The...
Why I Find LLMs Frustrating
LLMs are a great tool if they are used responsibly. However when you blindly copy and paste the...
WTFM
A philosophy that you should always maintain when developing is to Write The Fricken Manual. Many...
The LightBox Nerd Snipe
I’ve been nerd sniped. A few weeks ago, Raymond Camden posted about An Image Dialog Web Component...
Optionally Shared Context in React Components
Right, here’s a weird one. I know what many of you are thinking: Alex, why the heck are you writing...
useFetch in Nuxt 3: The Proper Way
I have recently seen at least 2 people make a wrapper around useFetch in Nuxt 3 incorrectly by trying...
Classes, Super, and You
Last week Chris and Dave mentioned that they don’t get why you have to call super when you’re in a...
Please Be More Physically Active
Alright, I’ll admit I am the least qualified person to talk about this. But as a mediocre white guy...
Better JavaScript Currying Examples
I’ll admit I went on a bit of a rant the other day on this topic because I find the way people are...
Delete Your Dev Environment Regularly
I have recently had the opportunity to muse about process and how we maintain a system. One of the...
Why I like the JSON:API format more than GraphQL
Dave Rupert saw me on stream talk about JSON:API and suggested I write a blog about it. So here we...
Test Post - Please Ignore
I’m setting up some automations, and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to let folks know more effectively...
Non-Alcoholic Options for Event Organizers
Todd Libby recently posted about the need for conference organizers to support those of us who don’t...
Website vs. Application vs. Web App
Jen Simmons recently posted an interesting question about website thinking for 2023, and I waded into...
Moving to Astro and StaticCMS
Hey Y’all, So I spent this past thursday feverishly working on moving my blog from Gridsome and...
Thoughts on testing
Chris Coiyer had an interesting post on integration vs end to end testing. I made a reply that I want...
If You Give a Function a Function...
So Cassie Evans tweeted this the other day: Frameworks obfuscate away & front-end dev spans so...
Poop.
I think I now have a few people reading this, so I should update it more regularly, so let's get some...
Mechanical Keyboards - I get it now
So a couple of months ago I purchased 2 of "The Key v2" as an impulse purchase. I got a link to it a...
Brain Dump - May 2022
I don't have any brilliant insights to share today, or anything like that, I'm mostly just wanting to...
My first impression of making a Wordpress Gutenberg block
This week I had the opportunity to make a Gutenberg block and there are a few things I learned in The...
The JavaScript `in` Operator
I found out that the JavaScript in operator is more versatile than I thought while on stream a couple...
Cassidy asked if I had written anything, so here it is
Look, let's be honest. You aren't really here for some earth shattering information. You saw a very...
CSS-Trickz: An Experiment with Netlify's On-Demand Builders
At the behest of Dave Rupert in the Shop Talk Show D-D-D-Discord, I'm going to talk about my...
Vue 2 to Vue 3 - 8 months on
Vue 3 has been out for almost 8 months now. Adoption is slow. This is feeling a little like another...
JavaScript Labels and Returning Early
Every once in a while, you find a feature of JavaScript you never knew about that has always been...