Shannon Crabill

Solotober 2025: Recap

A reflection on my first Solotober gaming experience

Vibe Coding? In this economy?

I (begrundingly) tried vibe coding with Claude. It turns out, AI can make coding feel magical again.

Solotober 2025

Link: Notes from the Dev: Using Emmet for Faster HTML Email Coding

Notes from the Dev: Using Emmet for Faster HTML Email Coding

Link: Notes from the Dev: Using Emmet for Faster HTML Email Coding

Focused Breathing

Automatically Open the Current Directory in VS Code From Terminal

Engineering Blogs to Follow

Keyframes

Orphan Branches in Git

Orphan Branches in Git

Doing the `.split()` with Javascript

Base64 Encoding

Planning Your Escape from Tutorial Hell

Free APIs

Open Graph for Personal Projects

Count How Many Days Until Halloween with Javascript Date Objects

A Beginner's Guide to Managing React State with Hooks

Switching Themes Based on the Current Month

Opting Out of Hacktoberfest

You Don't Have to Participate in Hacktoberfest

In Defense of Tutorial Hell (and How to Escape It)

Queer Eye Text Effect in HTML & CSS

Switching from Sqlite3 to Postgres

Why Poodles Are the Best and Worst Dogs Ever

Web Page Redirects with .htaccess and Apache

Social Media Preview Images for Your GitHub Projects

Drab to Fab: Makeover Your Project README In 3 Steps

Amending Git Commits

Nominee: Ruby on Rails Thinker of the Year

Approaching Problems like a Software Engineer

Custom Data Attribute

vh & vw

Link: Sending Quality Emails as a One Person Email Team

Coding Everyday Is Fun—Until It Isn't.

Link: Auditing Your Email Design System

Bubble Wrap

Scoville, fun with peppers and gradients

Oh Hex! Building a Random Hex Generator with Javascript

7 Days 7 Websites

Abstracting Button Events in React

Link: How to Use Emojis and Special Characters in Your Subject Line or Preheader Text

Creating Associated Objects in Single Page Applications

Singular or Plural? A Cheatsheet for Ruby on Rails Generators

Using .inject to Find the Most Popular Item in a Has_Many, Through Relationship

Debugging Has Many, Through Relationships in Ruby on Rails

Building a Wine Journal Application with Sinatra

Hiding Sensitive Information with Environmental Variables in Ruby

Link: Featured on the Ladybug Podcast

CLI Have No Idea What I'm Doing: Planning (and Building) My First CLI Application

Taking Note