Category: Code & Development
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Why Are Development Metrics Important?
I write about this topic a lot, but it’s one that is important to me and the teams that I manage. It helps create a culture of transparency and problem solving. Team velocity, individual velocity, number of tickets completed and bugs fixed are all metrics that serve as the compass guiding teams through the complex…
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The Significance of :has() Pseudo-Class Support in Firefox
On December 19, 2023, Mozilla Firefox took a much needed step forward in web development and web development standardization by introducing support for the :has() CSS pseudo-class. Most other major browsers pushed out this feature between March 2022 and September 2022. This addition marks a major milestone in the quest for standardized web technologies, providing…
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Every Second Counts
One thing that has remained a constant in web development today is the importance of site speed. As someone who has been coding for several years, I vividly remember the days when the mantra was simple: “Your website needs to load fast, and every millisecond counts.” Sites had to be optimized, images had to be…
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Going From Auto-Increment To UUID
Recently, I went through the exercise of converting my e-commerce platform’s database and application to using UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) over auto-increment fields as a way to modernize and scale after a long pause on development. Here were some of the reasons: However, the currently underlying database cannot currently natively handle UUIDs as types, so…