Darrell Huffman

The document head might not be the most glamorous part of a website, but what goes into it is arguably just as important to the success of your website as its user interface. This is, after all, where you tell search engines about your website and integrate it with third-party applications like Facebook and Twitter, not to mention the assets, ranging from analytics libraries to stylesheets, that you load and initialize there.

A React application lives in the DOM node … Read article “It’s All In the Head: Managing the Document Head of a React Powered Site With React Helmet”

The merits of Git as a version control system are difficult to contest, but while Git will do a superb job in keeping track of the commits you and your teammates have made to a repository, it will not, in itself, guarantee the quality of those commits. Git will not stop you from committing code with linting errors in it, nor will it stop you from writing commit messages that convey no information whatsoever about the nature of the commits … Read article “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Git Hooks”

Space is vast. Space is awesome. Space is difficult to understand — or so people tend to think. But in this tutorial I am going to show you that this is not the case. Quite the contrary; the laws that govern the motion of the stars, planets, asteroids and even entire galaxies are incredibly simple. You could argue that if our Universe was created by a developer, she sure was concerned about writing clean code that would be easy to … Read article “Creating Your Own Gravity and Space Simulator”