Sometimes I write things. Not often enough to call it a blog.https://mikemcbride.dev/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/one-year-post-stroke/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/one-year-post-stroke/A reflection on life one year after my stroke.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/beginner-vim-tips/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/beginner-vim-tips/Here are some helpful tips for getting started with Vim.Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/find-git-commit-sha/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/find-git-commit-sha/I recently had to find a commit SHA from a git repo and I didn't remember when I made the commit, but I knew a keyword. Here's a quick tip on how to find that.Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/useful-automation-scripts/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/useful-automation-scripts/There are a number of useful automation scripts I have set up over the years in my dotfiles. I'll share some of the ones I use on a daily basis to boost my productivity.Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/vue-revisited/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/vue-revisited/A year ago I wrote some very early thoughts on Vue 3. Let's see how they hold up.Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/firefox-bookmarks-bar/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/firefox-bookmarks-bar/Let's take a quick look at how to make the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox better.Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/github-auto-delete-branch/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/github-auto-delete-branch/Here's a quick tip to help keep your branches clean on GitHub.Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/delightful-ux/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/delightful-ux/I have been super impressed with the attention to detail in some of GitHub's products lately and wanted to share a little on that.Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/thoughts-on-vue-3/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/thoughts-on-vue-3/Vue 3 is out of beta, and I've tried it out on a few projects. Here are some early thoughts.Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/introducing-vscode-theme-builder/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/introducing-vscode-theme-builder/I made a new library to make authoring VS Code Themes easier to manage. Check it out!Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/update-default-git-branch/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/update-default-git-branch/Let's look at how we can change the default branch in our git repos and sync it with a remote repository on GitHub.comWed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/method-overloading/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/method-overloading/Method overloading is a concept used in many programming languages, but it doesn't really exist in JavaScript. Let's explore what it is, why we might use it, and what it looks like in JavaScript.Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/vue-computed-methods-watchers/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/vue-computed-methods-watchers/When I was learning Vue, one of the more confusing aspects was trying to wrap my head around when to use computed properties, methods, or watchers. They have a lot of overlapping functionality, so let's jump in and see what they're all about.Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/clearing-intervals/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/clearing-intervals/Sometimes you need to set an interval in JavaScript... and sometimes you need to make it stop. We'll go over the basics of how to do this and also cover clearing an interval in a Vue component.Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/modern-javascript/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/modern-javascript/In this post I'll cover some of the features of modern Javascript that I didn't really understand at first but now that I do, I find them super useful. Hopefully you'll take something away from this as well.Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/alfred-emoji/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/alfred-emoji/Alfred is a powerful application with vast capabilities for automation. In this post we'll explore how to make it dead simple to use it as a system-wide emoji picker in macOS.Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/2020-update/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/2020-update/TL;DR - 2019 was busy and hard. I didn't write a post. I want to change that.Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/remembering-mom/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/remembering-mom/On August 2, my mom passed away after a 29 month battle with brain cancer. I had the privilege of sharing some words of remembrance at her funeral.Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/flexbox-tricks/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/flexbox-tricks/Flexbox is a CSS spec that has been around for a few years now, but it continues to be one that people seem to struggle with. There are a few things that I think trip people up, and hopefully I can provide some resources and examples that will make it easier to understand.Fri, 25 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/why-use-build-tools/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/why-use-build-tools/One question I get a lot from people who are just starting out with web development is along the lines of "why is there all this extra overhead for a build process?", and I remember when I was starting out and wondered the exact same thing.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/reducing-css-file-size/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/reducing-css-file-size/Here are some tips on reducing your CSS file size.Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/better-console-logging/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/better-console-logging/This is just a quick tip to improve your experience with console logging with some alternative methods.Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/lessons-learned/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/lessons-learned/I reflect on some lessons learned after being promoted to a senior developer.Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/designing-in-the-browser/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/designing-in-the-browser/I want to spend some time talking about why I design in the browser, and the merits of doing that. I am not a designer, however, I spend a lot of time working on UI, both for my job and for personal or side projects.Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/life-is-unexpected/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/life-is-unexpected/I never would have imagined what the last three days have brought. This was the beginning of one of the most impactful series of events in my life.Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/keyboard-shortcuts/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/keyboard-shortcuts/Almost anyone I work with can tell you how much I love keyboard shortcuts. Anytime I find myself doing something frequently, I check the settings or search to see if there's a keyboard shortcut for it.Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/css-conventions/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/css-conventions/As I've worked on more web sites and applications, I've come across and developed a number of standards for writing and using cleaner, more useful CSS.Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/cancer-sucks/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/cancer-sucks/My wife is a pediatric nurse and sees a wide range of patients on her floor, but a large percentage of those patients are cancer kids. Today she lost another patient to cancer. That makes 5 or 6 so far this year. How unfair is that?Wed, 10 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/color-picker-input-with-validation/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/color-picker-input-with-validation/I recently had the opportunity to work on a really fun feature in an app where we built a color picker input component that needed validation for HEX codes.Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mikemcbride.dev/writing/paper/https://mikemcbride.dev/writing/paper/Paper is just the best. Go use some paper.Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT