More Than Code

Started gardening, and loving it!

This year I've started doing some gardening, mainly a couple raised beds, so small scale. I know absolutely nothing about it but learning along the way. For example, we had a pile

Writing From A Barrel

With so much time at home, and the littles needing all this attention it's hard to break out of routine. Sometimes you just need to break it up and do something different.

State Associated With Data Using Tracked Map

Historically I've used Ember Data which gives you a model instance which you can set arbitrary values on using the set method. That as I've been working with more POJO data

Sharing A Parent Model Across Route Boundaries

Just last week Alex LaFroscia released a new addon called Ember Context and I wanted to share some patterns that I've used in the past that this addon changes. The Problem Sometimes

TailwindCSS Lets Me Move Fast

I heard that one of the main benefits of Tailwind is that it limits your choices, and I can't agree more, but a less noted feature is the fact that it removes

Ember With GraphQL

Most Ember developers are familiar with Ember Data and JSON:API, which means that GraphQL and Apollo are not nearly as wide spread in the Ember community. This past year I had the

I Needed A State Machine This Week

This week I fixed a "feature" that I had done half-way, yes I'm not perfect! The feature was to show a loading state for video uploads/recording, and it was more

Beaker Browser The Filesystem Is The Network

I've been following a project called Beaker Browser, which is a browser build on top of decentralized tech called dat (yeah, a confusing name), and just wanted to write a quick post

What I Miss About Ember Data After Working With Apollo

While I love the ability to query the backend very specifically and build up complex data with GraphQL and Apollo, I still miss a few things from the good-old JSON API and

6 Tips For Transitioning To Ember CSS Modules

A few tips as you transition your SASS, LESS, PostCSS or plain CSS to using CSS Modules, and specifically for Ember (not sure what the differences are). Use local-class Instead of class

The Trellis

January is usually a time for goals, but the problem with those is that they are accomplished, and that's the end. A trellis is a structure that helps guide the growth of

Ember's Templating Is Far From Handlebars.js

I've heard this so many times on Twitter, that someone doesn't want to try out Ember because of a bad experience with Handlebars.js. Let me tell you something, the handlebars

When Components Aren't Enough

Sometimes components are too high-level, and you need to get at a specific DOM element, either for scrollTo or focus, in these situations Ember provides a lower-level primitive called an element-

Ember Components At Their Simplest

Ember Octane gives us template-only components by default, which basically means you have a zero-boilerplate way to create a component. This component is 100% declarative and has the same characteristics as

Moved Back To Michigan

Had a bunch of friends from Sojourn church come and help unload today, it was a blessing to us to have friends that really care. It's one of the reasons that we

Running Component CSS and CSS Modules in the Same App

With Ember Octane now released it's a good time to start looking at upgrading that app. One of the issues we faced at Crash with upgrading is that Ember Component CSS doesn'

One Reason Why You Should Be Using URLs

One of the reasons that Ember.js is so powerful of a framework is because of its Router, and ultimately its bet on the web and the fact that the URL is important.

Using Nested Routes In Ember.js

In my last post I mentioned how nested routes don't make sense sometimes, which means that they do have their uses at other times, which I want to cover here. I think

Ember's Nested Routes and URLs Explored

Ember's router is powerful and a bit unique, in that it has a nested structure for the routes which build up the URL a user would see in the browser. Given it'

Billing and Finite State Machines

This week I've been coding up some billing workflows and it has been a while since I've done that, so naturally I underestimated the amount of work that is required for

Fragmentation Over Obsolescence

Many people have written blog posts for #EmberJS2019 about where they want to see Ember headed in the next year or so. I'll add only one item of my own, since there

What I'm Listening To

I've been listening to a few podcasts in several different categories and wanted to share some of those with you. Development EmberMap [https://embermap.com/podcast] - An Ember.js focused podcast with

Bad Habits and FOMO

I have to be honest, I've only picked up on this term about a year ago (maybe longer) and at that time I didn't have any connection with the idea. A

Joining Crash

I'm excited to announce that in just over a week I'll be joining Crash [https://crash.co] to build the vision of helping you show your value while starting/changing a

Lessons From Unfocused Side Projects

Having worked on a few side-projects, and not having shipped any, I decided to analyze why that is and how to ship my next side-project. The problem for me is that

Learning something about myself

This week has been a whirlwind of things, but the biggest of those is a decision to move back to the east coast. Coming to this decision has shown me, more clearly than

Favorite Ember Addons

I decided to write down some of my favorite Ember.js addons that I have used in the past. There are a handful of addons marked with [bleeding edge], meaning they are either

Ember In 2018 and Beyond

This post is in response to the Call for Blog Posts [https://emberjs.com/blog/2018/05/02/ember-2018-roadmap-call-for-posts.html] put out there by the core team. Have

Sharing Components with Engines

Is this what I'm looking for? You have at least one engine and you want to share components from your parent app without having an in-repo-addon to share the common

Quotes Project

Recently I've been reading more non-fiction, specifically Christian non-fiction writing. During my reading I've been encountering many uplifting and deep quotes from authors of the past as well as

Data Down, Actions Up

I hear many people asking how they can compose components, and since the Ember Guides [http://guides.emberjs.com/] don't help us in that respect, I wrote my own guide as a

Use Ember CLI

I've been using Ember.js since just before the first RC, and since then I've been wanting a sane project structure that just works. This was a struggle, since Ember told

Hello

This is the first post, and hopefully not the last ;) I'm Ilya Radchenko, usually go by 'knownasilya', and this is my blog where I write about life and web development. I'm