Joey's Journal
I do a lot of things. Sometimes I write about those things. Then you get to read about those things, and maybe do some things of your own. Neat!
After eight years of Gatsby, it's time to try a new framework.
Storybook's Theme Switcher addon is great, but it doesn't support swapping entire stylesheets. I came up with a solution of my own, using native Storybook features.
This guide covers the best practices for building a React component library with Vite, TypeScript, Conventional Commits, and Storybook.
In late 2022, I started feeling tired. Really tired. Abnormally tired. Then the medical appointments began.
I talk to Eli and Emily about how getting to grips with my bisexuality happened at the same time I was learning to code.
I gave a lightning talk about unconscious mentoring at All Day Hey 2022. Did you know that you often do your best mentoring when you're not aware of it?
Impostor syndrome is rife in the tech world. Often it feels impossible to keep up with constant change. How can we, as developers, hope to overcome it?
Sometimes you have to do the scary thing.
My wonderful colleague Paulina and I spoke about our work on GAMINGbible.
Intersection observers. Intersection observers everywhere.
I made some katas to help with learning the Jest testing library.
I get a lot of compliments on my dev environment. It's designed with cuteness in mind.
I built a new tab extension for Chrome in React with a to-do list and weather reporting.
If you know your why, you can endure almost any how.
It was great to pass along some advice to young women interested in STEM careers.
I spoke about my BrowserStack and CircleCI integration at Manchester Web Meetup #3, hosted at the LADbible Group office.
How to trigger screenshot generation using the BrowserStack API, and save the images as build artifacts in CircleCI.
I spoke briefly about my journey into tech, including sharing my story of escaping domestic abuse.
Our bootcamp team's final project.
I made a Prezi that breaks down the concepts of Redux.
I love this soundscape tool so much.
.reduce() is the Swiss army knife of array manipulation.
Before you read this post, make a sandwich.