Peter Tasker articles - 15 total
An introduction to Gatsby for WordPress Developers
For a long time, my personal website was a built on WordPress. I’ve worked with WordPress a bunch in...
Common JS libraries and tools
What are your most used JavaScript tools and libraries?
What are your CLI go to commands and aliases?
I realized that I have a bunch of CLI go to commands and aliases that speed up my productivity and wa...
Devs using font ligatures, what's the selling point?
I've just enabled them in my editor and I don't really get it. Is it because it makes code shorter an...
People using Go in production, what are you using it for?
I've been looking at learning Go and bit more and seeing what it's all about v.s. PHP, Python, Ruby e...
Nginx, Let’s Encrypt and taking my own server down 😢
Photo by Simon Fitall on Unsplash If you pay attention to Google and it’s indexing rules, you’ve pro...
People that don't use Github, what do you use and why?
As a developer I've been using Git and Github for the past few years. To me, it's such a breath of fr...
What's the dumbest bug you caused yourself
I was thinking about this recently, what's the dumbest bug you've caused yourself? I'll go first. M...
Using async await with jQuery’s $.ajax
Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash If you’re like me, you’re probably stuck using jQuery more often...
JavaScript’s cryptic ‘this’ – what, when and why
Photo by Tarun Ram on Unsplash Before MDN started to organize their JavaScript documentation, findin...
Best way to copy an object in JavaScript?
So I'm always looking for a way to use vanilla JS whenever possible these days, and I discovered...
Open Source, PHP and Visual Studio Code
Lately, VS Code has been getting a lot of hype in the dev community. It's bee...
What do you folks do for a side-hustle?
Hey all, I've been thinking about starting a side-hustle for myself lately, but I don't really know w...
JavaScript build tooling and the CLI
Something that’s come up recently in the front-end world is the topic of a learning curve and JavaScr...
