Shannon Crabill — Front End Software Engineer

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  • You Don’t Have to Participate in Hacktoberfest

    You Don’t Have to Participate in Hacktoberfest

    I’ve participated in Hacktoberfest for the past 3 years and it can be a lot of fun. It can also be a lot of work. This is why I’ll step in as your internet friend by telling you it is ok not to participate in Hacktoberfest. Here are two reasons why.

    October 1, 2020
  • In Defense of Tutorial Hell (and How to Escape It)

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! Tutorial hell! It’s a terrifying, terrifying place to be as a developer Or…is it? I am on the fence on if being in tutorial hell is really as bad as the internet makes it out to be. What Is Tutorial Hell? “Tutorial hell” means participating in tutorial-based content to create projects or apps. Most […]

    September 23, 2020
  • Queer Eye Text Effect in HTML & CSS

    Queer Eye Text Effect in HTML & CSS

    There’s never enough episodes of Queer Eye. ? To hold me over until the next season airs, I wanted to revisit the logo and see if I could recreate it in HTML and CSS. The Logo The logo effect has a couple of different elements that I need to figure out. Matching the font Picking […]

    September 19, 2020
  • Switching from Sqlite3 to Postgres

    Let me tell you, I had been avoiding making this update for months. It seemed hard and scary and I was afraid I would break something. But you know what? It was kind of a mess, but not as much of a mess as I thought it would be. There are a lot of tutorials […]

    September 13, 2020
  • Web Page Redirects with .htaccess and Apache

    When I’m presenting at a conference, or sharing a project on social media, I like to have a short, easy to remember URL to share.  While it may not be the easiest way, what works for me is creating a URL redirect with whatever short, easy to remember the link I want, to the long-form […]

    September 3, 2020
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Shannon Crabill — Front End Software Engineer

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