Agney Menon
Engineer. Driven by Passion
Latest Posts
Tailwind CSS on Snowpack
on April 20, 2020Snowpack is a tool for building web applications with less tooling and 10x faster iteration. Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs. Let's explore how to combine both of them. First resource we…
10k and Reflecting on StackOverflow
on April 18, 2020About 5 years ago, as I started out on Stack Overflow, I was simply looking for a way to keep track of answers that I see. Then, one day it felt like I could use some validation. If I could get out there and answer few questions from others…
Effective Remote Communication
on April 04, 2020A lot of people are taking to remote for the first time because of the pandemic. While doing software engineering remote is well and good enough for most people, it's the communication that they struggle with. If you do not see the other…
Toast with Ionic React
on March 28, 2020A toast notification is a long standing custom in mobile application used to notify the user of something happening within the system. Sometimes it even has buttons for interaction. Here is how to use one (straight from the docs): Well…
React - Avatars and Avatar Groups
on March 25, 2020Avatar components are a huge part of our pages nowadays. From homepages to profile, the proliferation of round avatars everywhere. What would be the challenges of just adding an image in place? Images take time to load, the space would be…
Theming with Styled Components
on March 03, 2020A guide on theming your web applications with Styled Components. Why should you theme? Themes help create an identity for your application. Themes can help abstract all usages of a particular color, length or shadow to a single place so…
TIL - Grid Blowout
on March 01, 2020Today I learned that there is a thing named Grid Blowout . It's not as bad as sounds though. One fine day, I had a normal grid going and things were going great. Then the requirements changed and text had to be on a single line with…
Fast Track to Dark Mode with Styled Components
on February 25, 2020This post describes a fast track to dark mode with Styled Components and a couple of other packages which is currently implemented on this blog. Note that we will not be discussing the implications or concept behind dark mode, there are…
Join the Squad
No Spam. Just JavaScript.I sent out a newsletter every month containing information that I find notable and useful. Unsubscribe any time you want & Feel free to browse Archives