https://thetrevorharmon.comGatsbyJSWed, 26 Nov 2025 22:43:22 GMThttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/ai-fills-in-the-blankhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/ai-fills-in-the-blankFri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe article "Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature" by Mitchell Hashimoto was shared on my work slack, and there was a particular phrase he…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/dont-use-the-spread-operator-in-a-loophttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/dont-use-the-spread-operator-in-a-loopMon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTI recently stumbled on this article that talks about a one line change that had a huge performance boost. The change? Removing the spread…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/const-isnt-constanthttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/const-isnt-constantWed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTIn every Javascript app I've worked on, the linter has enforced preference towards over . And yet I've always wondered why code like this…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/thoughts-on-building-habitshttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/thoughts-on-building-habitsTue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTIn 2020, I was facing a dilemma. It was during the summer of the pandemic (well, the first summer), and despite having plenty of time on my…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/loaves-and-fisheshttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/loaves-and-fishesFri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMTI was recently pondering about offerings that we give the Lord…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/loose-null-checks-in-javascripthttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/loose-null-checks-in-javascriptMon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/advanced-state-management-with-react-and-codemirrorhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/advanced-state-management-with-react-and-codemirrorMon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/connecting-antlr-to-code-mirror-6-connecting-a-language-serverhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/connecting-antlr-to-code-mirror-6-connecting-a-language-serverFri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/connecting-antlr-to-codemirror-6-building-a-language-serverhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/connecting-antlr-to-codemirror-6-building-a-language-serverThu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTFor the past couple of years, I’ve worked on ShopifyQL Notebooks, a data exploration tool offered by Shopify. The tool enables Shopify…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/codemirror-and-reacthttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/codemirror-and-reactTue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTOver the past 10 months, I've been working with the CodeMirror framework to write and integrate a custom code editor into a React app…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/learning-codemirrorhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/learning-codemirrorWed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTIn July 2022, I was tasked with integrating CodeMirror, a “code editor component for the web”, into ShopifyQL Notebooks. Learning the ins…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/building-a-shopifyql-editorhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/building-a-shopifyql-editorThu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTIn July 2022 I was tasked with integrating CodeMirror into ShopifyQL Notebooks. I had to discover how to connect our ShopifyQL language…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/displaying-mermaid-charts-in-gatsbyhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/displaying-mermaid-charts-in-gatsbyThu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTI like diagrams. I find they do a great job explaining my thought processes and giving a better understanding to what are often abstract…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/what-ive-been-up-to-latelyhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/what-ive-been-up-to-latelyFri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTAt the start of 2020, I was feeling lots of momentum with my blog. I had been writing consistently for over a year, I had my first speaking…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/sell-things-fast-with-gatsby-and-shopifyhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/sell-things-fast-with-gatsby-and-shopifyThu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTSpeed is the most important factor in converting patrons to buyers online. According to a study by Akamai, a 100ms delay causes conversion…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-prepare-and-use-variable-fonts-on-the-webhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-prepare-and-use-variable-fonts-on-the-webMon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTWhen I redesigned my blog, I decided to move away from using Work Sans and instead go with a newish font called Inter, a lovely typeface by…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/introducing-2-0-in-2020https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/introducing-2-0-in-2020Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTSometime in early 2019 I started to have that itch. That feeling that every creator has when they regularly look at something they made. I…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/designing-album-artworkhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/designing-album-artworkSat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMTI've been writing and recording music since I was 15. Not all the music was particularly good music, but it's been a lot of fun throughout…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/designing-for-michael-barrow-and-the-touristshttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/designing-for-michael-barrow-and-the-touristsFri, 06 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMTThroughout 2016-2018, I was the lead guitarist for Michael Barrow & the Tourists. In addition to playing lead guitar, I also produced most…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/binary-thinking-vs-directional-thinking-danielpriestleyhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/binary-thinking-vs-directional-thinking-danielpriestleyThu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTDaniel Priestley: The only way forward in this transformational time is to make decisions that are mostly right, sort-of right, on-balance…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/what-I-learned-from-my-first-month-working-remotehttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/what-I-learned-from-my-first-month-working-remoteMon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTEarlier this year I determined that consulting wasn't for me and that I needed to look for a new opportunity. I was fortunate to find my way…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/why-slow-mornings-may-be-the-secret-to-tech-life-balance-ajzaleskihttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/why-slow-mornings-may-be-the-secret-to-tech-life-balance-ajzaleskiMon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTI often think about how I use technology and if it makes my life better or worse. @ajzaleski provides some great ideas for how to achieve a…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/email-signup-forms-with-gatsby-and-mailchimphttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/email-signup-forms-with-gatsby-and-mailchimpWed, 24 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTIf you're using Gatsby to power your blog, chances are that you need an easy way for others to sign up for your posts. While some choose to…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/getting-closure-on-react-hooks-swyxhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/getting-closure-on-react-hooks-swyxMon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTThis fantastic talk from JSConf by Shawn Wang (known as @swyx) explains what's going on in the background with React Hooks. After watching…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-use-s3-select-to-query-json-in-node-jshttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-use-s3-select-to-query-json-in-node-jsWed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMTAbout a year ago, AWS publicly released S3 Select, a service that lets you query data in S3 with SQL-style queries. They announced support f…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/code-irl-javascript-closureshttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/code-irl-javascript-closuresWed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTSometimes it's hard to find a real world example for certain code concepts. Here's an example of using Javscript closures in the wild. A…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/three-simple-ways-to-write-cleaner-codehttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/three-simple-ways-to-write-cleaner-codeTue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMTI've been reviewing a lot of code lately and have seen some good and not-so-good practices. There is code that works, and then there is code…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/configuring-jest-and-enzyme-in-create-react-app-on-typescripthttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/configuring-jest-and-enzyme-in-create-react-app-on-typescriptTue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMTI was recently trying to get a Jest/Enzyme testing environment working with React (Create React App with Typescript) and all of the…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/the-value-of-iterative-designhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/the-value-of-iterative-designWed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTFor the better part of the past 3 years, I've been associated with Michael Barrow & the Tourists, a band from Provo, UT. Part of my role for…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/a-developers-guide-to-the-open-graph-protocolhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/a-developers-guide-to-the-open-graph-protocolTue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTI recently asked myself the question "how do link previews in iMessage work, and why doesn't my site have a preview?". I discovered that…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/what-I-learned-from-a-failed-startuphttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/what-I-learned-from-a-failed-startupTue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT"Some of you might have noticed that your paychecks didn't process this last weekend. That's because we missed payroll." August 21, 2017 was…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/staticquery-and-typescripthttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/staticquery-and-typescriptThu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTI was recently working on my portfolio site, and I wanted to easily pull in the site title with a graphQL query. After a bunch of trial and…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-silence-false-sass-warnings-in-reacthttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-silence-false-sass-warnings-in-reactTue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTI was working on a React project and I kept running into an error that read . The file was definitely there, and the project was building…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-lint-typescript-in-a-gatsby-projecthttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-lint-typescript-in-a-gatsby-projectTue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMTI wanted to set up linting in a Gatsby project I was working on, but there weren’t any great resources for linting Typescript. I wrote a…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-quickly-deploy-a-gatsby-site-with-netlifyhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-quickly-deploy-a-gatsby-site-with-netlifyMon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTDisclaimer #1: I wrote this because I had issues getting the beta version of Gatsby (Gatsby 2) working on Netlify. I figured it might help…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-make-a-static-site-with-flexible-content-using-gatsby-and-contentfulhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-make-a-static-site-with-flexible-content-using-gatsby-and-contentfulMon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTOne of the reasons why I chose to use Gatsby is because it gave me the power of React with the speed of vanilla HTML. However, I knew that I…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-make-a-super-fast-static-site-with-gatsby-typescript-and-sasshttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-make-a-super-fast-static-site-with-gatsby-typescript-and-sassWed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMTI was able to build a super-fast static site generated from a headless CMS using Gatsby. I liked it so much that I put together a starter…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-use-apple-font-tools-to-tweak-a-fonthttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/how-to-use-apple-font-tools-to-tweak-a-fontTue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMTRecently I was working on embedding a custom font into the Neighbor iOS app. I discovered that the font I was trying to embed had an issue…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/what-facebook-can-teach-us-about-the-new-macbook-prohttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/what-facebook-can-teach-us-about-the-new-macbook-proWed, 02 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMTAt the end of 2007, a friend of mine told me about Facebook, a new social network that was "less sketchy than MySpace". After showing me the…https://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/on-building-cougarcashhttps://thetrevorharmon.com/blog/on-building-cougarcashTue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMTIn 2014, BYU rebranded their student ID card system as "CougarCash", allowing students to use their student ID cards as a debit fund on…