Nick Ball – Software developer based in Portland, Oregon. Currently at Dropbox building the Forms application.

Projects

theaironearth.com

A personal site for my musical alias, The Air on Earth. Optimized images, a site-wide audio player, and lots of custom style flourishes. Built with SvelteKit.

waveformr.com

A tool for building SVG audio waveforms. Built with Astro, React, and Deno Deploy.

Demos

Audio Player An audio player built with React and Tailwind CSS.

Posts

02/10/2024 Fresh with a Type-safe Hono API Create a type-safe API with Fresh and Hono’s rpc
01/05/2024 Supabase Auth with Deno Fresh Using Supabase's new SSR auth with Deno's Fresh framework
12/29/2023 Showing audio progress with waveform images Use CSS clip-path to overlay two waveform images and show audio progress.
11/09/2023 Neovim, Deno, and TypeScript in a monorepo How to avoid LSP conflicts
10/23/2023 Command-based undo for JS apps A brain dump of research into non-trivial undo implementations
10/08/2023 Testing an API endpoint with Deno A method for testing an HTTP endpoint using Deno without testing implementation details.
10/02/2022 Double overflow with CSS grid A deceptively tricky layout
07/16/2022 Challenges of a Local-first App Blurring the lines of client and server
06/15/2020 In Search of Mocks A journey through various data mocking techniques for testing React apps (and GraphQL)
02/16/2020 Sentry for Single-Page Apps Effectively using Sentry for single-page, JavaScript apps
12/21/2019 Eleventy + DatoCMS + Netlify Building a static site with a headless CMS
07/04/2018 Rich Text on the Web in 2018 Thoughts on building a rich text editor
08/20/2017 Learning Elixir Some thoughts on learning the Elixir language.
08/19/2017 On Becoming Full Stack Taking on new roles as a front-end engineer
02/27/2016 UX Case Study: Google Inbox A hard look at one of my favorite interaction patterns