They Threw Rocks
A child screams in the back while a father desperately tries to prevent the police from brutalizing his family. But they threw rocks.
Hello!
I’m Amir R Muntasser and I’m a web developer, wizard, and shoe enthusiast from Tucson, Arizona. I am the Director of CMS Development at Simpleview.
Who would have thought that a young, Arab boy from the Southwest would one day grow up to be a winner of one the coveted Vuenicorns from the very first VueConf Toronto by building a shitty clone of Simon? No one, because that would have been absolutely wild for anyone to concieve and yet here we are and that's what happened.
I don't even write code anymore, but I think about it a lot…
Recent Posts
How I Use Tailwind CSS
Everyone else has been talking about Tailwind CSS lately so I might as well jump on this bandwagon. And, actually, I've not seen anyone state my point of view on it yet so I have something to add.
How to Animate Sprites on the Web
You like sprites? I like sprites. So I wanted to make see how easy it would be to make an animation from a sprite sheet. Turns out it's super easy, barely an iconvenience.
Creating an RSS feed with Next.js and Next-MDX
I recently decided to fully rebuild my blog from the ground up using Next.js. By default, there's no built-in support to auto-generate an RSS for blog posts like there are in so many starters for Gatsby. As such I needed to roll my own.
Finding Respite in Lego
There's something to be said about having a task that you can do with your hands and following directions that blocks everything else out.
This one weird trick changed my whole async/await game
Drop caps can present a unique challenge for accessibility. It may seem like a simple enough design feature to implement on a site, but given that the CSS for actual drop cap support is presently only implemented in Safari we have to get a bit hacky.
Making Accessible Drop Caps
Drop caps can present a unique challenge for accessibility. It may seem like a simple enough design feature to implement on a site, but given that the CSS for actual drop cap support is presently only implemented in Safari we have to get a bit hacky.
How to Build Responsive Layouts without Media Queries
A common misconception I see is that responsive web development means loading up your CSS files with media queries for everything.
How to Give an HTML Element an Aspect Ratio
Sometimes you just need a element to shrink or grow in height proportionally with the width.