Julien Melissas

Julien Melissas


This is my blog.


I can’t promise anything, but I hope to write in here about Code, Music, Food, Cars, Life, and other stuff. Enjoy!

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Browsersync Server is your little development friend

Posted on January 8th, 2018.

Ever used Browsersync? If you’ve used Sage you’ve likely used it since we moved from LiveReload. Anyways… assuming you have node/npm available at the command line you can install Browsersync globally like so: $ npm install -g browser-sync Once you’ve done that, navigate to a folder with an index.html file in it...

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maybe-rgba() sass function

Posted on December 16th, 2017.

Earlier today I found myself in a funny situation. I have a sass mixin than adds a screen to divs which expects 2 arguments: $color and $opacity. From there, it takes those values and adds the appropriate code. Only problem, is I’m using my new customizer library (coming soon to a GitHub near you, I promise) which allows for color...

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“How the internet works” Slides

Posted on June 6th, 2016.

Slides from my #WCAVL talk.

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JS Framework Showdown Slides

Posted on June 4th, 2016.

Here be the slides from my WordCamp Asheville 2016 talk!

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Shrug Alias

Posted on May 9th, 2016.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Slides from SyntaxCon 2016

Posted on May 7th, 2016.

My slides from SyntaxCon 2016

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This is how easy it is to get data from the WP-API

Posted on April 6th, 2016.

So I was at a #WCAVL planning meeting today and was trying to come up with a talk idea, and noticed we haven’t had many JS submissions. I thought: “oh hey – maybe it’d be cool for me to do one comparing using the WP-API with React, Angular, Backbone, etc…” Someone said: “there’s no way you...

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AirPi: Raspberry Pi AirPlay Station

Posted on February 21st, 2016.

Since moving into a new place, my bedroom is big enough for my stereo, which love very dearly. Thing is, I can’t be in bed working and also listen to music at the same time! Now normally I’d just buy an AirPort Express, but I get a decent WiFi signal up in my room, don’t need the other functionality, and had an extra...

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Using Angular.js and Sage

Posted on October 7th, 2015.

Angular + Sage? ezpz as Austin would say.

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CSS-only Vertical Progress Bar

Posted on October 5th, 2015.

A no JS way to make a simple 1-bar progress or goal bar that looks like a bar graph.