Hi, I'm Jelani

Previous this website was built in Wordpress, but now I’ve built it using Gatsby. In my migration to Gatsby I felt like I needed to change…

How to do it Now you could use something like react-sticky to do something like this, but it’s so much easier to just define your sidebar…

So recently I had a coworker get slightly annoyed with me and my trailing whitespaces at the end of lines. I’m using Aptana and not anything…

When I was implementing pingback functionality in my custom blogging software, I needed to read files from a remote server. As long as allow…

One of the only Google app (apart from Gmail) that I use the most Google Notebook will have no more updates. Before I signed up to Google I…

Sorting using sort() Lets say that you have an array of objects that you wanted to sort by: You can use the sort() method of the Array that…

What does transformPhrase even mean? So sometimes when I’m trying to save a form in react-admin I see this really annoying error: Uncaught…

Paperclip is a plugin/gem created by the talented folks at ThoughtBot. It will make using attachments and uploads in your rails application…

There are times that you do not want a form to automatically submit when a user hits the enter key. Or if you want to do some validation via…

Here is something useful that I discovered in my programming for my personal websites. I needed to strip out the anchor portion of a link…

So I was having an issue in react-admin where the value of BooleanInput (e.g. a checkbox slider) was not saving to my backend. Specifically…

Use an interface (Typescript 2.2+) We can extend types in Typescript by using the extends keyword For example we can write: Use an…

Imagine how disappointed I was when I had plugged in my brand new iPad 2 and only to realize that it simply cannot sync with my iTunes. If…

When dealing with tag inputs from users, I find myself having to make sure they they don’t enter in any blank or empty tags. Then I realized…

Recently I was working on a few functions that I didn’t want to have activated immediately after hovered over a div. I neededthe functions…

After having a ton of issues getting Netlify’s form submission to work, I have some tips on how to get it working if you’re running into any…

I was working on a new marketplace theme in Magento, and I kept getting a peculiar javascript error message. The exact error message that…

Most Jquery plugins act a lot like functions. They are attached to the main Jquery object, so essentially all we have to do is check that…

So last week I got a little tired of having to reboot my computer to dual-boot in a linux environment so that I could work on Rails stuff…

The replaceAll function in the java.lang.String class replaces each substring found in that matches the regular expression to replace. Would…

Well, this is the start to my blog. Hopefully I’ll post here often, but hopefully with something useful each time. I just don’t want to have…