Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Category: Web Development
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How to write and run a shell script
The blog post I wish I’d found about writing and running shell scripts.
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What is a snapshot test?
An attempt at a concise, relatively plain-language explanation of the concept of a snapshot test, including an “in the wild” example.
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An explainer about Rust, Web Assembly, the future, and a concern
What is Rust and what does it have to do with the future of the web? I’ve noticed some buzz about Rust lately and wanted to write this explainer post to share my distillation of the topic.
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The Beauty of FizzBuzz in CSS
In this CSS implementation of FizzBuzz, we can generate beautiful patterns with math!
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Experimenting with logic in CSS selectors & thinking through the conditional
This post includes an in progress example of logical statements expressed in CSS. The conditional is tricky for me. “If P then Q” is not the same as an if/else statement.
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Experimenting with logical equivalence in JavaScript
Having fun with recursion, pattern matching, and logical equivalence.
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Note to future Lara: Probably don’t rename directories just because it “feels better”
Lesson learned: Changing existing names with “better” new names is not necessarily a good idea because there will always be “better” new names.
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Let’s play: “Where is this CSS coming from?”
It’s a 1+ player game that can last from 1 hour to, um, much longer!
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Versioning Larva, PMC’s design system
For Larva, we are using semantic versioning with some modified definitions.
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An brief explanation of recursion for UI programmers
A high level overview of recursion with an analogy that will be familiar to front-end UI programmers.
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What, exactly, is a pipeline? [WiH]
This is a very serious question.
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The One True Way [WiH]
The One True Way to write code.
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What is a CSS algorithm?
It’s been almost two years since the first time I gave my talk on CSS algorithms. What is a CSS algorithm? Great question.
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Designgineering Chronicles: Swan Song [PiH]
The last installment of the Designgineering Chronicles. The work itself is far from over, but I am very over writing these posts.
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Twitter thread as blog post: Thoughts on how we write CSS
(Warning: thought-leadery post) Problems with CSS are not a result of flaws in CSS. The problem is how we write CSS.