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Alex Riviere
Hi! My name is Alex Riviere. I’m a web developer from Atlanta, GA that specializes in Vue.js, python, and PHP.
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Yesterday we went to Hot Betty’s Breakfast Bar for lunch and I figured I’d write down some thoughts. Food The food was alright. I got the Chicken and Waffles and wasn’t blown away, but also it wasn’t terrible. The chicken was well cooked...
I don’t have any brilliant insights to share today, or anything like that, I’m mostly just wanting to kinda put out some information because I feel like I should write more regular updates. I’ve recently started using centered.app to...
This week I had the opportunity to make a Gutenberg block and there are a few things I learned in The process. @wordpress/scripts is your friend I was impressed by the energy and effort put into the build process for blocks. The...
I found out that the JavaScript in operator is more versatile than I thought while on stream a couple of weeks ago, so let’s write a post about it so I can explain it to myself later. for Loops Let’s start with the place you might have...
Look, let’s be honest. You aren’t really here for some earth shattering information. You saw a very clickbaity title that I made to troll Cassidy Williams and quite honestly, I don’t think she was ACTUALLY expecting this. As long as you...
At the behest of Dave Rupert in the Shop Talk Show D-D-D-Discord, I’m going to talk about my adventures in making an efficient and poorly designed typo-squatting knock-off of CSS-Tricks.com called CSS-Trickz.com, which turned into an...
Vue 3 has been out for almost 8 months now. Adoption is slow. This is feeling a little like another major version bump I’ve lived through. Is Vue the new Python? When I started developing this go around, I was getting into Python and I...
Every once in a while, you find a feature of JavaScript you never knew about that has always been there. Labels are one of those odd vestigial bits of the language that make you go “But why?” I have previously read about and experimented...
I upgraded an app to Vue 3 and I learned some things about it. I’ve just finished upgrading vue-solitaire to use Vue 3. There are 3 main things I learned in this process that I wanted to let you (dear reader) know about. First, the way...
I’m diving into react, coming from vue, and I have some thoughts. I started Kent C. Dodd’s Epic React course, and first off, i’ve barely scratched the surface. This course is excellent, and will likely be my go to recommendation if...
I have now added comments to my site. I am trying out using utteranc.es as my commenting system. This integrates with the github issues for my blog’s repo and so we will see how well this works. I fully expect no one to comment. But if...
ES6 classes have been around for a little while now, so let’s talk about a key difference between using them and using a more traditional object prototype extending method of creating JavaScript classes. At work the other day I ran into...
I had the pleasure of giving my talk “Dependency Injection in Vue.js” at Connect.Tech 2019. Here’s where you can see more about it. Video: ConnectTech2019 - Dependency Injection in Vue - Alex Riviere Slides:...
I recently have updated the styling of my site to have a bit more… character? The other day someone linked me to dory-funk.com and I was immediately mesmerized by the background. It reminded me of my early days of the internet and...
My first pass at a talk that is an intro to Vue.js and how you can use it without a build step. Watch Highlight: Why Vue.js? - A First Pass from Fimion on www.twitch.tv