James Ives

One of the most enjoyable aspects of working on The Washington Post’s Arc Publishing platform is how many opportunities we get to reiterate on our process and implementation strategies.

When doing any kind of Front-End work, the tool that most developers spend an exceptionally large amount of time in are the Chrome Developer Tools, more so than any other similar tool in other browsers. With good reason too, they are both mature, and have a lot of features...

Something I was asked recently was to name all stages of the React class component lifecycle. After a short pause I was able to name a few but later came to realize there were more I wasn’t aware of. Unsatisfied with this I decided to take a closer...

I recently spent the day at Houston University for Node Bots day. Throughout the course of the day I learned all about building and controlling a robot with the power of NodeJS, which is something I dind’t even know was possible until recently.

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft lately in my spare time. Something I’ve been enjoying is the Mythic+ dungeons that were introduced with the Legion expansion. For these dungeons players must complete them within a time limit, but doing so requires a very competent team of players. The...

This is the third piece in a series of posts about improving my blog built on Jekyll. In this post I’m handling implementation of Service Workers, and enhancing my Google AMP setup further with them.