Harris Jose

Founding Engineer at Chronicle

Blog, page 8

CMD+Z for Git is Here

The notion that to be good at git, you have to get familiar with the terminal no longer applies. This was partly a UX problem and is more or less solved now, with well thought out GUIs like GitKraken and Tower.

Why CSS in JS deserves your attention

I gave a presentation at work recently about the whole CSS vs CSS in JS debacle and about why we should be looking at CSS in JS more seriously. I'm pretty sure I messed it up but I think the slides came out to be kinda nice even though I made them in 2 hours.

These slides go in two directions - top-down and left-right. If you're looking through them remember to go down before going to the next slide. Also the TL;DR version of the talk is right below, in case you think the slides are shit (which I'd totally understand).

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Strategies for Gulp.js at scale

Gulp is a great tool for running tasks. It saves us loads of time while development and is very handy when it comes to building websites.

We automate a lot of stuff using gulp (like transpiling JS using Babel and auto-prefixing CSS using PostCss) and as our projects grew, the number of tasks we had to manage also grew.

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