Mark Conroy | Frontend Web Developer

A simple request: we need an 'Add to Calendar' widget to add our events to Google Calendar, iCal, and Outlook. Simple (once I had completed it!).

I'm often asked about Parkrun (in Portumna, Galway specifically), so here's a brief outline.

Not exhaustive, not fully-fleshed out, but here's a braindump on what I believe helps sustainable front-end development. Oh, and there's 12 tips, so you can ignore the two controversial ones if you want!

Anyone who knows me as a front-end developer, knows how much I dislike InVision (though really, it's all those type tools - Zeplin, SketchCloud, Figma, etc). I might keep a little archive of my tweets about it here.

Sketch file complaining that it is missing fonts? Need to have Ionicons installed on your system so you can see what icons are being used in Sketch? Read on my friends...

I have a card component with a title, image, text, and link. How come all my card variants are inheriting all the values from the default one? Short answer, you don't. It's a feature, not a bug.

What would make for a first-class, enterprise-ready, front-end development team?

Responsive images in PatternLab get a bit of a bad rap sometimes, because they are tricky to have in PL and Drupal. Here's my "easy way" of achieving it.

It does what it says on the tin.

I first read Epic by Patrick Kavanagh for my Junior Cert in the early '90s. At 40, I find it very hard to not consider it my favourite poem. An epic piece of work.