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• Building Framer Motion Animations Inside a Qwik Application | Mar 21, 2023

  Animations are one of the coolest things you can add to your site to make it pop and be different than the rest of the cohort. Most animations can be done with CSS, but you have to know a lot to get good results. That is why a lot of people in the React ecosystem love Framer Motion.

• Avoiding Async/Await Footguns | Mar 6, 2023

  Async / await was a breath of fresh air for those who did web development prior to 2014. It simplified the way you write asynchronous code in JavaScript immensely. However, as with everything in the JS world and programming, it does have a few gotchas that can be a problem later.

• CSS Tips for Better Web Development | Feb 15, 2023

  CSS has been around for 25+ years, gaining tons of features and selectors to create great websites and apps. In this article, we'll explore popular and unique tricks to make your website stand out, plus older tricks that still work. Some may look trivial, but they might not be for certain folks. We'll also examine different layout implementations, scroll snapping, image shapes, and animation tricks. Let's dive in and explore some CSS tricks and tips you should know!

• Resumable React: How to Use React Inside Qwik | Jan 30, 2023

  Did you know you can leverage almost all of the React ecosystem inside a Qwik application? You can build React applications without ever loading React in the user's browser. Sounds too good, doesn't it? Let’s see how this works.

• The Tailwind CSS Drama Your Users Don't Care About | Jan 25, 2023

  If you’ve been doing web development in the past few years, there is almost no way that you haven’t heard about Tailwind. Just like death and taxes are a certainty, so is web development Twitter drama. This time around it came back to Tailwind.

• How To Improve Website Performance In 2023 | Dec 29, 2022

  Are you tired of staring at your website's performance scores and feeling like you're stuck in a rut? You're not alone. It can be frustrating to try different suggestions for improving performance, only to see little or no improvement. But what if I told you that there's a way to automate the process of applying performance optimization suggestions and see which ones actually have an impact on your score?

• The Qase for Qwik: Love At First TTI | Dec 19, 2022

  The reasons why you should be looking at Qwik if you care about performant web apps.

• DevRel - a conversation with ChatGPT as my Journey Begins | 4 December, 2022

  The beginning of my journey into DevRel and asking ChatGPT some questions

• Connecting Builder.io's Visual CMS to Astro | 10 November, 2022

  How to connect Builder.io's Visual CMS to your Astro website.

• Using Markdown with Astro | 4 October, 2022

  How I'm working with markdown within my Astro site

• Qwik: The Next Big Thing in the Frontend Ecosystem? | Sep 25, 2022

  A first look at Qwik, what is it, why you should care, and why I am excited about it.

• Why Astro | Sep 3, 2022

  The first post on this site about why I chose Astro.

• React Next IL Conference 2022 Summary | Jun 28, 2022

  A short summary about the biggest React conference in Israel - React Next 2022

• Getting Started with TSDX and Storybook | Apr 27, 2021

  I was asked by one of the maintainers of StoryBook to break down my massive post 😅

• Building TS Packages: Anatomy Of A React StoryBook TSDX Project | Apr 27, 2021

  How a React / TS / StoryBook / TSDX project is structured

• The Quickest Way To Kickoff A React Typescript Storybook Project | Apr 2, 2021

  A Tldr; version on how to jump start a UI library.

• How to Build A React TS Tailwind Design System | Feb 17, 2021

  After starting a Design System project at work, I shared how to do the same (in a very very lengthy post).

• Let’s Build Micro Frontends with NextJS and Module Federation! | Nov 24, 2020

  When Zack Jackson initially released Module Federation support for Next.js, I geek dived.

• A Tale of An Elder Millennial: How I Started My Tech Journey — Part 1 | Nov 20, 2020

  A lookback at where I started with computers and tech.

• Getting Started With CSS Grid — Part 2 | Apr 2, 2019

  Part 2 of how to get started with CSS grid: What can you do with CSS Grid? Learn by example — Grid Garden

• How We Moved From Wordpress to React and Raised $80 Million | Jan 25, 2019

  The story behind how I chose the tech stack for Culture Trip

• Getting Started With CSS Grid — Part 1 | Jan 11, 2019

  How to get started with CSS grid - Part 1