I recently ran into an issue when I tried to import a reference to jsonwebtoken into a new Vue 3 project configured with Vite. I’ve observed others encountering the same error (although through different circumstances) and I figured I’d document what I did to resolve the problem for me in case it helps someone else…
Snow Globe Single DIV CSS Drawing with Animating Snowflakes | Tutorial
By Ashley
Learn how to draw a snow globe with a single div and CSS. In this blog post I will walk you through how I created a snow globe with animating snowflakes using one div and a bunch of CSS. With the holidays right around the corner, I wanted to create something festive. I went back…
CSS Magic with a Single Div
By Ashley
In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basic building blocks of single div drawing with CSS, putting them all together at the end to draw a lollipop. The goal of this blog post is to introduce you to the world of single div drawing. Hopefully by the time you reach the end of it, you will…
Southeastern Technical Conferences (2020 Edition)
By Ashley
I love attending tech conferences, and I highly encourage all devs to attend at least one conference in their career. I always leave a conference feeling refreshed about the craft, motivated to apply my new knowledge and feeling more aware of how to do or use things I had not considered before. I’m in North…
Counting Pixels in the Browser with the HTML5 Canvas and the ImageData object
By Ashley
Count pixels by color in the browser using JavaScript and the HTML 5 Canvas Element I recently wrote a small Python script that accepted an image file and returned the count of pixels per a unique color. The script worked great for my use case (making 8-bit pixel art), and it has saved me a…
Retroflag SuperPi Raspberry Pi Case Review
By Ashley
Experience retro gaming nostalgia with this Super Nintendo inspired Raspberry case from Retroflag. I recently purchased Retroflag’s SuperPi case. It’s a Raspberry Pi enclosure that closely resembles the Super Nintendo console. I already own Retroflag’s NESPi case (I love it, and you can read my review for it here), so this SuperPi was an instant…
Fractions in Python | Today I Learned
By Ashley
Today I became aware of the existence of the builtin Python module fractions. The fractions module handles rational number arithmetic. Here’s a simple example using the Fraction class to covert a decimal into a Fraction with the numerator and denominator reduced to the lowest terms. My idea bulb lit up as soon as I discovered…
.mjs extension (A JavaScript module file) | Today I Learned
By Ashley
Today, I needed to reference the MDN docs for JavaScript modules. As I skimmed through the page, something caught my eye: a file name with the .mjs extension. My first reaction was confusion. This was my first time seeing a file with that extension. Upon further reading, I learned .mjs is a special JavaScript file…