James Kerr

A helpful way to think about income and spending.

Don't wrap single elements in React components just to style them.

I like Hugo because it's free, fast, and fun to develop. But look at all these hurdles I had to jump when publishing!

A helpful way for me to think about God and my inevitable sin.

A poem about the liberating concept of enough.

An important lesson for churches hidden within a 37 Signals podcast on company culture.

Thoughts on all the things that must leave me for me to be happy and fulfilled.

Learn how to wrap a NodeJS child process with a transform stream so that you can use it in a pipeline.

This poem was written on a backpacking trip through the Wind River Range in Wyoming.

A poem about jesting with friends.

A common distinction in React is controlled vs uncontrolled components. But the real world is not so black and white...

A child relies on caregivers to teach her who she is. For a time, they know more about her than she does.

I was talking with a group of friends trying to come up with possible answers to unanswerable questions like: What happens when we die? How does the way we live affect things after our death?

Walk through a React hook that avoids the flash of empty UI when old data is cleared and new data is fetching.

While at a playground this weekend a man talked to my 3-year-old son in a way that upset me and I had to do something about it.

An fun thought I had reflecting on the memories of my life.

We took a trip down to Joshua Tree this weekend for a cousin's wedding. For the first time, I could appreciate the gifts of a desert climate.

We build an engine for it. It propels us to new heights. It explodes. It destroys everything around it.

I’ve owned a full frame camera for over five years. I’ve acquired four lenses and snapped many thousands of photos. And yet, last week I discovered these five tricks and was shocked by my ignorance of them.

When I’m angry I stop needing everyone to like me. I don’t care if they approve of what I do. My face doesn’t hurt from smiling all the time.

To simply share some JavaScript you've got to consider JS runtimes, module formats, and package.json interpretations. Was it easier when cross-browser compatibility was the big headache?

I watch Netflix because I’m too tired to do anything else. The kids are finally sleeping and I’m spent.

What if we didn't think of God as infinite. What if God poured itself into this particular universe.

All the time at the playground I hear, "good sharing!" and "no no Jackson, you need to share"...

Wincing at the ceremony required to make a TypeScript class happy when it wants an object argument.

I've got three workflow files all with slightly differing steps. Is there a way to share what is common? Yes.

The short answer is merge the refs into a single ref function. If that's not immediatly obvious, you're like me.