The Dev Blog

Some of the stuff I've been working on or important information I want to share. Usually just cool stuff I like.

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Web Development

Next.js

TailwindCSS

Notion

2024 Blog Site Update - Server components galore!

Time for another update to the personal blog! The last blog update was really getting my hands dirty with Tailwind, but this time around I opted to use a design system that was built with Tailwind to help with consistency. Let’s chat about the updates:

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Chad Lumley

February 28, 2024

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Typescript

Web Development

Typescript Feature - The Numeric Separator

Typescript has a ton of features that we often don’t use on a regular basis. One of them, the Numeric Separator, simplifies how we write numbers and can reduce confusion when looking at long strings of digits.

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Chad Lumley

February 2, 2023

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Web Development

2023 Blog Site Update Notes

It’s that time again! Time to do some spring cleaning on the blog site and check out the latest and greatest in front-end tech.

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Chad Lumley

January 19, 2023

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Web Development

CSS

Margin and Padding SCSS Mixins for Grid Alignment

Horizontal and vertical flow are important in making an app's appearance easy to read and pleasant to look at. I wanted to create an SCSS mixin that helps me unify all padding and margin to a base unit of size for a consistent layout and also mimic the css shorthand.

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Chad Lumley

August 10, 2021

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Web Development

React

React + Redux + Typescript (2019 Edition)

For my latest project I needed to spin up a new version of react and keep it up to modern standards. This involved getting Typescript up and running, which was no easy task. This post walks through the end results of my research in the hopes I can save other some time.

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Chad Lumley

February 1, 2019