Dillon Shook
Autodidact & Zero One Infinity Advocate
Location Boston, MA
Interests Programming, Photography, Cooking, Game Development, Reading, Guitar, Running, Travel, Never having enough time...
This Site Made with Astro, Cloudinary , and many many hours of writing, styling, editing, breaking things , fixing things, and hoping it all works out.
Education B.S. Computer Science, New Mexico Tech
Contact site at dillonshook dot com
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Bucking the Naming Trend
September 10th 2014
I’m sure many of you have heard this quote before but I want to explore one reason why it’s so true: consistency.
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Infini-woes
September 3rd 2014
Inifiniscroll is great. When used properly of course. Google images is the poster child for this and it works so great because they basically have infinite images. The pattern breaks down when it’s forced into places where you have less than infinite content. Much less than infinite content.
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2024
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Where Did All the Tech Bloggers Go?
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