My latest post on the Opternative Blog. Use this workaround to include your favorite Jekyll plugins painlessly with GitHub Pages hosting.

Rick Rolling is Bach and more Baroque than ever.

One of my favorite new additions to JavaScript in ES2015 is the generator function. The expressive capabilities of these functions are significant. Here are a few ways to use them in modern JavaScript applications.

Should you choose rem, px, em, etc? There's lots of nuance in this discussion. Use of the rem unit can offer savings in the form of payload weight. Here's how.

Attracting and retaining great teachers in our schools is more difficult than ever. Here is part two of my list of 10 solutions.

From a Rails newcomer's point of view: how to use block helpers effectively.

We all want young people to have a great education in the United States. Beyond that, the diversity of viewpoints on how to improve education in our country is breathtaking. No matter what your views are, though, one crucial point in every plan is ensuring that we attract and keep high-quality teachers in the classroom. Right now, that vital component to good education is in trouble.

How I hacked together a blogging solution using Tumblr as a headless CMS. Backbone.js handled state and markup parsing on the client side.

The bubblegum pop installment of If Bach Wrote. Recording, score and analysis of a fugue based on the vocal melody in Britney Spears's "Oops!... I Did It Again."

A Bach-like fugue based on the piano/bass melody in the iconic "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. Recording, score and analysis within.