The Only #hacktoberfest Help I Need is Someone to Close Spam #hacktoberfest PRs

They started before it was even October in the United States and they’ve continue to grow across three of our repos over the past 20 hours. I can’t wait for another month of this! I really wish I could just opt our org out of this. The main project has 2000+ watchers!

HTML5 Boilerplate 8.0.0 Released

It took a little longer than I expected, but we released HTML5 Boilerplate 8.0.0 yesterday. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, it’s the 10th anniversary release, and if I do say so myself, it’s a pretty good way to celebrate 10 years of the project. It was a lot of work getting this one […]

10 Years of HTML5 Boilerplate

While we’re preparing an upcoming release, I didn’t want the day to go by without mentioning that ten years ago today, HTML5 Boilerplate was released. Here’s the story of the project as we wrote it up a few years ago. The History of HTML5 Boilerplate Sometime in 2009… “Wouldn’t it be great if we created […]

Connecting VS Code to an EC2 Instance Using Remote – SSH

I use VS Code almost exclusively now. It’s the best editor for Angular and TypeScript and that’s where I spend most of my time these days. It’s also a pretty good all-around editor, so even when I’m not working in TypeScript I still use it. I recently found the need to edit a WordPress theme […]

Working From Home For The First Time in 3 Years – Expect Some Writing/Open Source From Me

Like many of you I’m working from home for a while. As a mental health strategy, I’m going to do some writing and coding in the hour or so I get back each day from not having to commute. The first post, which will follow today, will be my thoughts on working from home. I […]