Font Awesome Isn’t Working: The Ultimate Reference For Fixing Your Icons
Font Awesome is rampant in modern web design, and that’s a bit of an understatement. It’s a simple way to add professionally designed icons to spice up your web pages. It’s free, simple to use, and actively maintained by a team of professionals. What’s not to like? The setup is simple: you add a reference […]
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Quick Tip: Creating Custom Post Types without A Plugin in WordPress
If you’re creating a custom theme with even a little bit of complexity, chances are, you need some kind of custom post type. There are a few ways to approach it, some involving plugins. The CPT UI plugin is great for managing more complex post types with an intuitive interface. Though, like anything else in […]
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Learning Programming Fundamentals the FUN Way, In Any Language
What timeless advice welcomes fresh programmers? Yes, you guessed it. Fundamentals. Learn how to code in pure JavaScript before learning a framework like Vue.js. Whatever your stack may be, the advice remains rock solid. Learn fundamentals first before diving into the exciting, fancy world of web frameworks. There’s just one problem with this advice, especially […]
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Getting Sassy: 3 Useful Ways To Use SASS Mixins
For years now, SASS has given CSS the functionalities that native CSS wish it could. These includes variables, selector nesting, mixins, extends, and much more. One simple but very powerful thing SASS gives you is the ability to outsource a similar set of style rules into a reusable “function”. This lets you centralize style logic […]
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Make Internet Explorer Cross Browser Testing Less Painful With SCSS
We’ve all been there. We don’t want to do it, we don’t think we need to do it, but it’s necessary. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer (11) is a necessary evil for most business requirements. Certain businesses even require earlier versions than that. *shudder* Fair warning, this article is only keeping the most recent version(11) in mind. […]
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Advancing Your WordPress Workflow: Managing ACF Field Groups The Right Way
If you develop custom WordPress themes, there’s no doubt ACF (pro) is in your toolbox. Simply put, it feels like a natural extension for developing custom themes. If you still haven’t picked up this tool, I’d recommend hopping over to their website and see what you’ve been missing. Out of the box, you get powerful […]
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Let’s Learn SASS & SCSS: Diving Deeper into Mixins & Extends(Part 5)
There are four posts before this one. You can check out part 1(getting up and running, part 2(setting up the build), part 3(nesting and variables), part 4(diving into mixins and extends). Mixins and extends are cool, right? In our last article, we dived into the basics of both and have a good idea of what […]
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Let’s Learn Laravel Blade: Conditional Statements (Part 2)
In our last post, we learned about Laravel Blade and its capablities. That post only scratched the surface, blade can do so much more! In this post, we’ll dive into conditional statements and rendering. Every good templating engine has simple ways to conditionally show blocks of markup. Blade makes this very easy. If you’re used […]
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Easy Inline SVGs With Sage 9/Blade Templates
Inline SVGs are a lesser known trick for performant assets. Using them in traditional static sites is problematic due to how verbose they are. Inline SVGs can be anywhere from a few lines of code to a hundred! Not the prettiest solution. That is why it’s much better to use a component based approach. Using […]
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How To Interact With Iframes Using Cypress.io
Cypress.io is great for testing the front end of your app’s UI, but at the time of this post, it lacks a few fundamental features. One important feature is handling file uploads natively, but there is a workaround for that. Another popular use case I came across is testing and interacting with iframes. Testing iframes […]
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My Work
Fixd Repair
Fixd Repair is a modern, performant responsive website utilizing Vue.js and a Vue framework called Nuxt.
Breathr.io - Meditation SPA
Breathr.io aims to encourage daily meditation as a habit. It's a single page app(SPA) built with React + Redux.
Portfolio - James Giannini
A custom 4-page static site built with mobile experience and UI in mind.
SCSS Framework
A minimal framework that contains common mixins, classes, and helpers that I use on almost every project.
20+ Page Custom WordPress Theme
Stay Driven is a custom responsive WordPress theme built with the sage.io starter theme. It features ACF flexible fields for easy page section reordering.