Skies by Sean Keever

How to Fix "this is undefined" Error in JavaScript Classes

I was perplexed by this issue when I stumbled upon it, here's how to fix it.

Date modified: Jan 23, 2021
Time to read: 1 min read

2020 Year in Review

Reflecting on all that has happened in my life during this crazy year.

Date modified: Dec 30, 2020
Time to read: 7 min read

How I Was Able to Go to College Debt-Free

College is tough to pay for. Here's how I was able to overcome the burden of paying for college.

Date modified: Dec 26, 2020
Time to read: 9 min read

Simple Trick to Clean Up Tailwind CSS in React

Here's a trick I like to do to clean up Tailwind CSS in React projects.

Date modified: Oct 13, 2020
Time to read: 1 min read

How I Use TypeScript to Track Google Analytics Events with Gatsby

Learn how to build the best site for your users.

Date modified: Oct 11, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read

Automate Changing Your Markdown Blog Frontmatter Schema

Learn how to update your markdown blog frontmatter with Node.js

Date modified: Oct 10, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read

How to Deploy a Gatsby Site to AWS with GitHub Actions

Automate your deployment pipeline.

Date modified: Oct 1, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read

How to Host a Gatsby Site on AWS with Terraform

Learn how to set up a static Gatsby website on AWS declaring infrastructure as code.

Date modified: Sep 30, 2020
Time to read: 5 min read

Improve Accessibility with Semantic HTML

Give Googlebot some context when crawling your webpage.

Date modified: Sep 26, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read

Improve SEO with Social Sharing Cards

Check out this simple tip that you can apply to make links back to your website on social media look awesome.

Date modified: Sep 24, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read

Why You Should Learn React First

My unpopular opinion on why you should learn React before learning the fundamentals.

Date modified: Sep 22, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read

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Setting Up Themes with Tailwind CSS and React

Learn how to set your site up to handle multiple themes using Tailwind CSS and React.

Date modified: Sep 19, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read

Learn Flexbox With Tailwind CSS

Harness the power of Flexbox with Tailwind CSS and React.

Date modified: Sep 17, 2020
Time to read: 4 min read

Learn About Unit Testing with TypeScript

Learn the basics of writing unit tests and practicing test-driven development with examples in TypeScript.

Date modified: Sep 17, 2020
Time to read: 4 min read

Supercharge SEO with Schema.org Schema Markup

Learn how to tell search engine web crawlers about your site with structured data.

Date modified: Sep 14, 2020
Time to read: 3 min read

How to Fix Bottom Padding for iOS Mobile Browsers

This article explains a simple tip that you can apply to dynamically add extra padding for mobile devices.

Date modified: Aug 30, 2020
Time to read: 1 min read

On Finding a Solution for Writing CSS in React

React makes no opinions about how we should write CSS. This article explains how I formed my own.

Date modified: Aug 25, 2020
Time to read: 5 min read

Learn the API Gateway Pattern

An API Gateway is a software design pattern that provides clients an interface to a complicated backend.

Date modified: Aug 6, 2020
Time to read: 3 min read

Why I Created a Blog

Why I built Skies and started blogging.

Date modified: Jul 29, 2020
Time to read: 3 min read

You Might Not Need Microservices

Depending on the scale of your company, having a microservices may do more harm than good.

Date modified: Jul 27, 2020
Time to read: 3 min read

Project

Skies Website Tech Stack Explained

Learn about the stack that drives the skies.dev website.

Date modified: Jul 23, 2020
Time to read: 4 min read

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Let's Build a Color Palette Generator

In this article, we will build a color palette generator and publish it on GitHub.

Date modified: Jul 1, 2020
Time to read: 6 min read

Queue Data Structure

Learn about the queue data structure.

Date modified: Jun 30, 2020
Time to read: 1 min read

Best First Programming Language to Learn

Come check out why I believe Python is the best programming language to learn as a total beginner.

Date modified: Jun 29, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read

Make Your Platform a Product

Learn how companies benefited from offering their platforms as a service, either through infrastructure or external APIs.

Date modified: Jun 27, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read

Clean Code

Come check out common patterns to keep in mind when writing clean code.

Date modified: Jun 26, 2020
Time to read: 3 min read

How to Learn CSS Fast

Learning CSS can be hard and intimidating, but it doesn't have to be! Check out this tip to help you learn CSS quickly.

Date modified: Jun 24, 2020
Time to read: 3 min read

Best Computer Science Courses

Check out the top 10 computer science courses and pointers to resources to help learn each course on your own.

Date modified: Jun 22, 2020
Time to read: 5 min read

PurgeCSS with Gatsby and Tailwind CSS

How to tell PurgeCSS to not remove styles that are sourced from markdown files.

Date modified: Jun 20, 2020
Time to read: 1 min read

Choosing Between CRA, Gatsby.js, and Next.js

This article is aimed to help you decide which React framework to use.

Date modified: Jun 19, 2020
Time to read: 3 min read

Binary Search Algorithm

Binary search can greatly speed up the execution of your programs

Date modified: Jun 16, 2020
Time to read: 1 min read

Stack Data Structure

Level up your computer science knowledge by learning about the stack data structure.

Date modified: Jun 15, 2020
Time to read: 2 min read