I'm Dan Denney, a front-end dev at DataCamp.
Ok, ok. I'm technically a Senior Software Engineer II, but front-end dev just rolls off the tongue. This my personal playground for sharing many of the things I enjoy, most of which revolves around web design and development.
Recent Blog Posts
They're mostly around front-end dev and web conferences, with some occasional life things sprinkled in.
Most Recent Blips
Shorter than a blog post, longer than a tweet. This is where I share quick reactions or stash things I want to remember.
Job openings
- Read Later
I killed Pocket, for Notion
- Fun With Framer AI
Checking out their new landing page prompt option
- Filter an Array by Keyboard Rows
Using ChatGPT for JS problems
- What ChatGPT 4 "Thinks" for a Front-end Career
Testing ChatGPT's knowledge of my career
- Outputting Notion API Data in Eleventy
Quick notes on the data
Recent finds from around the web
I'm starting to stash everything in a "library" and archive them by month.
- Teaching ChatGPT to prompt Midjourney Definitely need to make a thread or GPT of this
- You don't need JavaScript for that - HTMHell Nice roundup of UI that can be done natively now
- CSS In Real Life | Preventing Scroll “Bounce” with CSS Neat trick that I’ll add to my stuff
- Scraping Goodreads Another good way to get your data out of Goodreads
- Headless Component: a pattern for composing React UIs Love this dive into how to think through components
- How To Animate Along A Path In CSS — Smashing Magazine Super slick
- How Smashing Magazine Uses TinaCMS To Manage An Editorial Workflow I’ve been debating using this, I want a git-based CMS for this site
- Textareas with auto-increasing height using CSS Nice feature
Cooking and enjoying food and drinks are my hobbies outside of web development. With No ReservAItions, I've found a way to mix the two. I'm using ChatGPT to create reviews for the places that I visit in the spirit of Anthony Bourdain and I'm having so much fun with it!
