Joe Czubiak

Projects. Thoughts. Tutorials.

Featured image for post: Into the Dust Cloud
December 31, 2021
Into the Dust Cloud
Pack the car. Fill up on gas. Grab ice from the store. And hit the road. The getting away part of getaways is the hardest part. We were headed to Sequoia National Park from Los Angeles. It should be an uneventful drive through California's Central Valley.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
2 min read
Featured image for post: NFTs beyond art — 3 uses with real utility
March 11, 2021
NFTs beyond art — 3 uses with real utility
Nifty art has little utility beyond being able to display it in somewhat obscure virtual worlds. Some say to buy them for bragging rights, because owning things feels good, or to start a collection.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
5 min read
Featured image for post: Box-Shadows
February 25, 2021
Box-Shadows
I've become mildly obsessed with box-shadows. When they are done well, they're magic. They provide depth, contrast, and clarity to the page. When done poorly, they're distracting. Let's dive into box-shadows.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
10 min read
Featured image for post: My secret to putting my email on my website without getting spammed
January 27, 2021
My secret to putting my email on my website without getting spammed
I got an email from Ugohow the other day. Ugohar also sent me one. The Ugos send me a lot of emails, they write to me in Russian with links to buy prescription drugs. Thanks, Ugos.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
4 min read

Featured image for post: Shadows
February 09, 2021
Shadows
I built an open-source CSS box-shadow generator. I was curious about box shadows one day and next thing you know I've built a tool.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
1 min read
Featured image for post: Joe's APIs
April 14, 2020
Joe's APIs
I'm providing free APIs for anyone to use at data.joeczubiak.com. Our first API serves important public data about COVID-19. The idea is to provide a way to give myself and others useful tools to build interesting things with.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
2 min read
Featured image for post: Patient Tracker V
April 01, 2020
Patient Tracker V
Patient Tracker V brings project management tools to dentists to help organize and track complex cases.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
1 min read
Featured image for post: StockTrot
April 01, 2020
StockTrot
It felt like a more or less simple idea at the time. Create an email alert system for Form 4 Insider Transactions on the stock market. Months of working late into the night later I had a database full of millions of historic transactions and a functional website.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
1 min read

Featured image for post: How to rename a widely used model in Laravel
February 28, 2024
How to rename a widely used model in Laravel
Code is messy, language is messy, and sometimes you want to rename a model in a codebase that a team has sunk years into...for consistency's sake. Doing a quick find and replace isn't enough in this case...
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
3 min read
Featured image for post: Laravel + React
October 16, 2020
Laravel + React
This tutorial will show you how to use React with Laravel in a way that lets you sprinkle React into a legacy Laravel codebase and blade templates. We will not be creating an SPA or using Create React App.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
6 min read
Featured image for post: Bridging CMS content and react components via shortcodes
July 28, 2020
Bridging CMS content and react components via shortcodes
I thought it would be nice to create my own implementation of shortcodes for my blog so I can include my custom react components into my post by adding a simple shortcode. This creates the bridge between CMS and code that I was missing.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
3 min read
Featured image for post: Netlify Contact Form with React Ant Design Form Components
April 06, 2020
Netlify Contact Form with React Ant Design Form Components
We're building a simple contact form with three fields — name, email, message. It will be a React component that uses the Ant Design components to display a Netlify form.
Joe Czubiak
Joe Czubiak
7 min read
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