Rose

Rose @rose

About: Dev by profession and hobby. Not a ton of time for hobbies these days though! Mom of two young kids. Also really into dog training (agility, nose-work, advanced obedience, etc) & reading fiction. 😃

Location:
Victoria, BC
Joined:
Oct 2, 2019

Rose
articles - 17 total

Tutorial: A Gatsby Photo Blog Powered by Flickr

🤓 What this tutorial covers Setting up a paginated feed of photos in Gatsby, sourced from...

Learn More 16 3Jun 16 '20

Fixing a bug on my open source project: From start to finish.

🥰 Hello! Long time no see! I am currently on maternity leave with my second child and writing code is...

Learn More 51 2Jun 10 '20

Do you think ageism in tech is improving?

There's often been talk in tech communities about how there's a degree of ageism involved in hiring i...

Learn More 14 21May 27 '20

Debugging in JavaScript for Beginners: How I approach things.

📝 Note: Using Chrome, although most browsers are fairly similar so you can probably use this article...

Learn More 132 3Dec 16 '19

If you work as a dev for a product team, what's it like?

I feel so sheltered! I've worked for the same SaaS product for about 8 years, and I don't live in a p...

Learn More 78 4Dec 11 '19

Women in tech: Being a developer and a mom 🤪

Warning: I wanted to write about being a mom in tech but I didn’t really know exactly how I wanted to...

Learn More 127 31Nov 7 '19

More experiments with form animations ✅

A sort of follow-up to this post .... a few more form animations. Not totally happy with the executi...

Learn More 107 5Nov 3 '19

Draft.js: Simple Content Manipulation

Hey it’s part 5 of the series! I hope you are enjoying playing with Draft.js so far. Today, I want t...

Learn More 33 10Nov 2 '19

On being a dev team manager: Lessons learned from different managers I have had

I’m not huge on clickbait lists of “Top five habits of good managers” and this post is a little bit…...

Learn More 57 5Oct 30 '19

CSS variables, input[type="color"] and form animations

I was contemplating not sharing this because I was like "Meh it's pretty simple, anyone can do it" bu...

Learn More 164 8Oct 27 '19

Draft.js introduction: Custom styles (highlighted text!) and have formatting buttons show whether they are “on” or “off”

Hello! I can’t believe we’re already on #4 of this series 😱 Today I wanted to cover 2 fun topics th...

Learn More 20 3Oct 26 '19

Draft.js: Common Questions and Answers

☀️ Welcome back to my series on Draft.js Before continuing with more code-stuff with this series, no...

Learn More 16 1Oct 26 '19

Rich text editing on the web: Formatting text and keyboard shortcuts in Draft.js

☀️ Hello! If you are here, know nothing about Draft.js, and you are just jumping in, I recommend you...

Learn More 37 3Oct 24 '19

Rich text editing on the web: Getting started with Draft.js

Once upon a time, not too long ago, rich text editors on the web were a huge challenge to implement....

Learn More 149 12Oct 23 '19

Playing with CSS animation in 30 minute increments

Some things you should know about me: I am a mom! I have a dog! I work full time! I have...

Learn More 76 7Oct 20 '19

Playing with easter eggs: Ideas for making your website more fun

I recently updated my personal site to feature a fun mode, where I tried to add as many easter eggs a...

Learn More 104 15Oct 16 '19

Git alias trick: Comparing your local branch to the upstream version

Hello! I would like to share a small Git alias that has made my life so much better: The ability to c...

Learn More 5 0Oct 16 '19