DEV Community: Ken S

Certificate Viewer

Ken S — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:25:40 +0000

I haven't been posting here a lot. I'd like to contribute more so I'll share projects here as I finish them.

Lessons Learned

Most of the "head scratch" issues I ran into were due to minor typos. For example, a missed capital letter in my JavaScript reference to the HTML ID. "I swear this should work!"
I had an issue where the background was cutting off at the bottom. This was resolved by assigning height: 100% to the HTML element
I had an issue with the overflow-x property as the scroll bar was not showing when I'd dummy values to the certificate selector area. I'm not 100% what resolved it, but after some research it appears that it is because the parent div was set to display: grid. I set the grid-template-rows attribute to 100% and I believe this is what resolved the issue.

I'm still new, but if anyone checks out the code and has any questions I'd love to discuss. Likewise, if anyone had any recommendations on how I could have optimized my code, I'm always open for suggestions.

Devs: Single Quotes or Double Quotes on Attribute Values?

Ken S — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:34:14 +0000

I typically use single quotes in my code and reserve double quotes for literal strings.

I'm in the middle of a HTML Certification course through W3 Schools and all of the examples have double quotes. The best practice section only states that HTML Attributes should be quoted and only uses double quotes in the examples.

For current Devs who work on the front end, do you find there is any preference?

Note: This is more for curiosity. I'm going to go with double quotes for the W3 course since that's what they recommend.

Laptops Shipped with Linux?

Ken S — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:25:34 +0000

I have been considering getting another laptop specifically for Linux. I know companies like Dell and Lenovo have been selling laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. The upside is that I can just unpack it and set it up. I'd imagine that companies like Dell and Lenovo ship these laptops with their own software installed similar to the way they do with Windows, so I'm a little hesitant.

Is there any potential for privacy and performance concerns in regard to purchasing a laptop pre-installed with Linux vs purchasing a Windows laptop and installing Linux myself?

I'm open to any recommendations.