Coding posts
Coding posts by Juan Manuel Allo Ron

Common CSS layouts in Tailwind
Jul 12, 2024
10 one-line layouts, meticulously reconstructed using Tailwind CSS classes

7 days of JS by ChatGPT
Jun 12, 2024
I decided to team up with ChatGPT to create a 7-day JavaScript challenge, inspired by the popular 30 days of JS. The results? Truly amazing!

Teaching LLMs to play the drums
May 12, 2024
In this experiment I created a text notation so ChatGPT, Claude.AI and Bard could create some music with it

Astro Themes and Templates to Power Your Next Build
Apr 3, 2024
Looking for themes and templates to style your Astro site? There are lots of great places to start. Save hours of aimless searching with my handpicked collection

Tip: use Z
May 28, 2020
Aren’t you tired of always typing the same routes in the terminal? When I found z it changed my productivity. What’s z? A terminal command to help you quickly navigate across directories…

Debugging IE11 with VirtualBox
May 12, 2020
A quick setup with virtualbox to test IE11

Tip: Syntax Highlighting with BAT
May 7, 2020
Terminal command cat is a standard tool to print file contents to the console. I use it all the time but recently I found bat and it changed my life!

Weekly Digest #6: Learning Git from novice to expert
Apr 26, 2020
Recently I have been helping to create content to onboard new developers. One of the topics I prepared was Git. I have been using git for more than 12 years, and while doing research I was surprised to learn new things. So I decided to share some useful links with everyone.

Weekly Digest #5: 100 days of code
Apr 19, 2020
100 days of code was started by Alexander Kallaway in 2016 but recently it has been gaining more momentum (we all know why). Practice is the only way to master any discipline...

Thoughts on Snapshot Testing
Apr 14, 2020
Since I moved to react at work I have been using and trying different testing strategies and I wanted to share some thoughts and best practices around snapshot testing.

Visual Studio Code Extensions: Adding code coverage in 3 easy steps
Apr 7, 2020
In this quick tutorial I will show how you can add test coverage to your vscode plugin repository.

Dependency Graph for Javascript Projects
Mar 24, 2020
I was reading this Javascript development setup post by Eric Elliot, when I stumbled upon a super cool NPM package to generate dependency graphs. The name is dependency-cruiser.

Weekly Digest #1
Mar 22, 2020
Best practices on JavaScript modularity: when to use named exports, how to group code and what to avoid. Check JavaScript Module Best Practices.