Helen Abbott

A common trend on the web these days is dark theming. Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and many more all have a dark theme option now. It seems every website is adding this capability. In this article, I explore how to create a simple theming system with CSS variables.

React is a great UI library. Its flexibility makes it a great multitool for building almost any type of UI on the web. But this flexibility comes at the cost of guidance. With more flexibility, it’s much easier to stray away from clean code, and it’s even harder to identify exactly what clean code looks like. In this article I'll discuss when and how React components should be broken down into smaller pieces.

New in version 2.8, Ansible has added a built-in Manifold lookup plugin that allows you to get credentials from Manifold. This is really powerful if you’re looking for a solution to securely manage your secrets and resources provisioned from Manifold in one place. In this post, I’ll create a very simple Python application to show how easy it is to inject secrets from Manifold into your existing application via Ansible.