Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Month: November 2017
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Thoughts on Gutenberg (Pre-WordCamp US)
This post has been marinating in my drafts for a few weeks, and I’d like to get it out into the world before I learn a whole bunch through talks and conversations at WordCamp US this weekend and refine my views accordingly.
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Advocating for Accessible UI Design
Although it is a hot topic in our industry, accessibility is not just up to developers! In this article I wrote for CSS-Tricks, I go through several non-technical accessibility tips developers can share with designers and content providers in order to advocate for accessible UI design on teams.
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Advocating for Accessible UI Design [on CSS-Tricks]
A few tips for accessible UI design you can share among your designer and product colleagues. Originally published on CSS-Tricks.
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Day 6: Algorithms – Sorting Algorithms in JavaScript
Algorithms have got a bad, scary, rap. And you know what? It’s for good reason – understanding an algorithm is pretty doable, but implementing an algorithm in code of your own? It’s hard. I went through writing some common sorting algorithms in JavaScript with lots of help from the Internet. Take a read!
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Day 5: Algorithms – Logarithms, Big-O, & Binary Search
If I told my 16-year-old, art student self I’d be writing a blog post about logarithms, I wouldn’t have believed it. I’ve tried hard to avoid math for much of my life, yet here I am, not only learning about it but enjoying it! This post is an outline of what logarithms are and how…
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Day 4: Data Structures – I Made a Hash Table
Apart from hashtags, my association with hashes is encrypting passwords in a database. That association is correct in terms of what a hash is, but there are also hash tables, hash functions, hash maps, and oh my gosh, more hash things for sure. Let’s focus on a hash function and a hash table and building…