Max Antonucci

Journalist turned full-time coder, part-time ponderer.

New Haven, CT Joined on Jan 10, 2017 http://maxwellantonucci.com/

Education

Syracuse University

Work

Front-end Engineer at SeeClickFix

Max Antonucci

Oct 14 '21

What's the deal with align-items: baseline?

#css

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3 min read

The Git Rebase Introduction I Wish I'd Had

Sure thing! Go right ahead as long as you credit the original...

Oct 13 '21

Create generative social images using SVG!

I just started getting into SVG and generative code, and this...

Feb 13 '21

How To Take Notes on Everything

It's moved around a bit since I updated this, you can see the...

Dec 22 '20

How To Take Notes on Everything

It's moved around a bit since I updated this, you can see the...

Dec 22 '20

How To Take Notes on Everything

It's moved around a bit since I updated this, you can see the...

Dec 22 '20

Introduction to CSS Animations

I wish I'd learned about animation-fill-mode and animation-di...

Sep 25 '20

So Declare Code War

Introducing new stuff is good, but for changing font sizes th...

Sep 21 '20

The Rails Model Introduction I Wish I Had

Thank you feedback! I did some edits to the post that worked ...

Apr 24 '20

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Max Antonucci

Feb 17 '21

The Currying Introduction I Wish I Had

#javascript #beginners #programming

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5 min read

Max Antonucci

Feb 1 '21

Hiding and Showing in SVG with Clip-path and Mask

#html #svg #frontend #design

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5 min read

Max Antonucci

Jan 18 '21

What is Programmatic Determinability?

#a11y #beginners

4 min read

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Dec 17 '20

What I Didn't Know in the 2020 State of CSS Survey, Part 2

#css

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Nov 6 '20

What I Didn't Know in the 2020 State of CSS Survey, Part 1

#css

8 min read

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Oct 27 '20

Scheduling Blog Posts with Eleventy, Netlify, and IFTTT

#javascript #productivity #serverless

4 min read

Max Antonucci

Oct 14 '20

The Widening Anxieties of Young Front-end Developers

#career #beginners

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6 min read

Max Antonucci

Oct 12 '20

Six Surprises I Found in the WCAG 2.1 Accessibility Rules

#a11y #learning #codenewbie

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8 min read

Max Antonucci

Sep 21 '20

Restyling my Site's Code Snippets in Quarantine

#showdev #css #tutorial #frontend

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6 min read

Max Antonucci

Sep 15 '20

Min, Max, and Clamp

#css

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3 min read

Max Antonucci

Apr 7 '20

The Rails Model Introduction I Wish I Had

#ruby #rails #database #beginners

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13 min read

Max Antonucci

Jan 13 '20

The Ultimate Irony When I First Avoided Tests

#testing #beginners #career #story

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5 min read

Max Antonucci

Oct 30 '19

Remixing Hotel California with Sonic Pi

#tutorial #ruby #sonicpi #music

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7 min read

Max Antonucci

Oct 7 '19

Checking Sudoku with Functional JavaScript

#javascript #functional #tutorial

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11 min read

Max Antonucci

Sep 9 '19

Cinderella and the Glass Structural Pattern - A Design Patterns Intro

#explainlikeimfive #beginners #design #programming

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12 min read

Max Antonucci

Aug 19 '19

How To Take Notes on Everything

#productivity #writing #career

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7 min read

Max Antonucci

Jul 24 '19

Snow White and the Seven Behavioral Patterns - A Design Patterns Intro

#explainlikeimfive #beginners #design #programming

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10 min read

Max Antonucci

Jul 21 '19

On Being a Hopelessly Insecure Programmer

#career #productivity #motivation #mentalhealth

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Max Antonucci

Jul 8 '19

Explaining (and Celebrating) my First Twitter Bot

#showdev #node #twitter

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3 min read

Max Antonucci

Jul 6 '19

Nine Ways I (Try to) Act as a Tech Ally

#webdev #career #shecodedally

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10 min read

Max Antonucci

Jun 25 '19

A Metaphorical Introduction to Functional JavaScript

#explainlikeimfive #javascript #beginners #functional

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13 min read

Max Antonucci

Jun 12 '19

Goldilocks and the Three Behavioral Patterns - A Design Patterns Intro

#explainlikeimfive #beginners #design #programming

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Max Antonucci

May 30 '19

The Three Little Creational Patterns - A Design Patterns Intro

#beginners #design #programming

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7 min read

Max Antonucci

May 20 '19

When Refactoring your Responsive CSS Backfires

#css #sass #html #beginners

6 min read

Max Antonucci

May 15 '19

The #DevDiscuss Community Talk Digital Health and Addiction

#discuss #twitter #productivity #career

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4 min read

Max Antonucci

May 1 '19

Comebacks for Five (Wrong) Arguments Against Accessibility

#explainlikeimfive #a11y #productivity

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5 min read

Max Antonucci

Apr 22 '19

How to Build a SubAtomic Frontend Architecture

#css #architecture #atomic #html

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7 min read

Max Antonucci

Apr 5 '19

Eevees, Quizzes, and Singletons, Oh My!

#showdev #javascript #ember

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5 min read

Max Antonucci

Mar 26 '19

Five Programming Lessons from a Journalism Major

#career #productivity #journalism

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9 min read

Max Antonucci

Mar 1 '19

My Week in Lessons for 3/1

#beginners #javascript #a11y #testing

5 min read

Max Antonucci

Feb 12 '19

The Testing Introduction I Wish I Had

#beginners #testing #javascript #ruby

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14 min read

Max Antonucci

Jan 21 '19

What Good Can a Blog Post Do?

#writing #blogging

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7 min read

Max Antonucci

Jan 15 '19

Dissecting my Ruby Project Skeleton

#ruby #beginners

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9 min read

Max Antonucci

Dec 21 '18

My First Taste of Ruby Task Automation in 22 Lines

#ruby #beginners #career

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5 min read

Max Antonucci

Nov 5 '18

You Can Be a Casual Blogger

#beginners #career #writing #blogging

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Max Antonucci

Oct 23 '18

The Web Accessibility Introduction I Wish I Had

#explainlikeimfive #a11y #beginners

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8 min read

Max Antonucci

Oct 15 '18

Seven Things to Do Before Asking For Help

#career #productivity #debugging

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3 min read

Max Antonucci

Jul 16 '18

The Shell Introduction I Wish I Had

#explainlikeimfive #shell #productivity #beginners

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11 min read

Max Antonucci

Jun 21 '18

It's Not About You

#career #beginners #advice #communication

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4 min read

Max Antonucci

May 25 '18

Lessons Learned from a Failed CSS Talk

#publicspeaking #css #beginners #career

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5 min read

Max Antonucci

Apr 5 '18

The Career Adventures of Johnny JavaScript

#career #junior #javascript

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Max Antonucci

Feb 20 '18

React is the Treasure I Found Among The Goats

#javascript #react #junior #vue

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Max Antonucci

Jan 28 '18

How to Refactor an Anime Newsletter

#node #javascript #beginners #tutorial

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6 min read

Max Antonucci

Nov 21 '17

My First Ruby on Rails Presenter

#ruby #rails #tutorial #junior

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5 min read

Max Antonucci

Nov 2 '17

SeeClickFix is looking for Rails and JavaScript Engineers!

#hiring #rails #javascript #ember

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Max Antonucci

Oct 31 '17

Takes Notes on Everything

#productivity #beginners #career #junior

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Max Antonucci

Oct 16 '17

Three Tricks to Make an Atomic Sass Framework

#css #sass #frameworks #tutorials

8 min read

Max Antonucci

Sep 24 '17

The Git Rebase Introduction I Wish I'd Had

#explainlikeimfive #git #beginners #tutorial

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7 min read

Max Antonucci

Aug 28 '17

Three Helpful Rules for Junior Devs

#beginners #webdev #javascript #career

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4 min read

Max Antonucci

Jul 30 '17

How to Make an Anime Newsletter

#tutorials #node #javascript #beginners

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8 min read

Max Antonucci

Jul 22 '17

Engaging in some JavaScript Warfare

#challenge #javascript #beginners #tutorial

7 1

3 min read

Max Antonucci

Jul 13 '17

Making a Custom Lorem Ipsum Generator

#javascript #beginners #node #express

20 1

4 min read

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