alex.party
alex.party
Alex Riviere
Hi! My name is Alex Riviere. I’m a web developer from Atlanta, GA that specializes in Vue.js, python, and PHP.
Latest Posts
Today’s topic is Trig Functions. I feel like Trig Functions don’t get a lot of love because nobody seems to know what you would actually use them for. I don’t get to go over it in the talk very much. Let’s actually show a demo of where...
My junior developer just came to me asking for help because their linting setup was broken. I’m writing this very quickly because I want to get all the details down. Junior Dev: “My linting is broken, can you help?” Me: “Sure” get on a...
Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity. The future of web development is blockchain. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is CSS-inJS. Get on or get left behind. The future...
I’ve been mulling this topic for months now, and I’m pretty firmly of the opinion if you are attempting to do some layout in CSS, you should reach for display:grid first, followed by display:block, followed by display:flex. Grid allows...
I’ve spent a lot of my life feeling… inadequate. There is an anger that flairs up about it too. A lot of this stems from my ADHD and learning disabilities, and that growing up, I had many teachers give me the classic line: “You’re so...
At work we have a standard layout we are using where there is a nav bar on the left hand side of the screen and content on the right hand side of the screen (this gets flipped for RTL languages). The nav bar can be in an expanded or...
I recently read the post We’ve Got Container Queries Now, But Are We Actually Using Them? over at Frontend Masters Boost, and I realized that it would probably be helpful for me to document real world uses for container queries. Today’s...
This post is gonna be salty, but after years and years of teaching developers to add click handlers to divs, add inputs with no labels, and generally insisting that they know better than you, react has released their version 19 beta and...
Inspiration came from Stu Robson The DevRel Went Down to Georgia (to the tune of The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”) The DevRel went down to Georgia, they had some code to shillThey were in a bind, cause they...
LLMs are a great tool if they are used responsibly. However when you blindly copy and paste the results, it will make your life hell. Don’t Trust The AI We’re currently having to rewrite large portions of our code at work because of a...
A philosophy that you should always maintain when developing is to Write The Fricken Manual. Many times over the years, i’ve heard the advice to “RTFM”. But the documentation wasn’t great. And no one was writing it. This sounds...
I’m trying out some new art direction here at alex.party. let’s see if it works….
I’ve been nerd sniped. A few weeks ago, Raymond Camden posted about An Image Dialog Web Component and I read that article, added some discussion about how you’d style it, then promptly stopped thinking about it… consciously. I think it’s...
Right, here’s a weird one. I know what many of you are thinking: Alex, why the heck are you writing about React? The answer is, I just solved an issue for someone and they said to write a blog post. So fine, I’m writing a blog post....
I have recently seen at least 2 people make a wrapper around useFetch in Nuxt 3 incorrectly by trying to call useFetch as though it were fetch. While the approach they take will usually work (in general), it will very quickly cause you...