DEV Community: Axiom

I forgot I made this account

Axiom — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:50:27 +0000

I originally created this account 4 years ago because I thought that all developers had to basically be influencers in the space in order to get a job. Like there was some kind of direct line from number of blog posts to zeros at the end of a paycheck.

There are still buy-my-5-step-plan tech gurus that swear by this methodology, and there might have been a time where it was helpful, but in today's AI accessible Technosphere hellscape all I see are the same regurgitated articles spammed to every visible corner of the internet with increasingly fraying accuracy of content.

Anyway here's Wonderwall

First Contributions & Fig

Axiom — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:35:41 +0000

Just worked through the first contributions project to learn the git workflow. To be honest I've been intimidated by git for a very long time but honestly it was very simple.

Clone, branch, change, stage, commit, push, pull

Pull still confuses me a bit via the naming convention, what exactly is being pulled? My changes into the main? Aren't I pushing it?

Anyway, I'd also like to give a huge shoutout to the wonderful people at Fig.io for letting me be a part of their Early Access. Fig is a wonderful tool that makes the command line much more accessible and is wonderful for beginners such as myself.

Excited to start contributing to some real projects!

Flexbox versus Grid CSS

Axiom — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:17:06 +0000

Today I'm working on the flexbox and grid sections of the Freecodecamp curriculum.

I've learned a ton about CSS from their curriculum but a lot of it has focused on the how and less on the why. When does one use a Grid versus a Flexbox? Is there a right answer or does it have more to do with the developers comfortability with either style?