Daniel Sellergren
Engineering and Cultural Leader
Two decades of experience building high-growth products and resilient teams, from unicorn startups to Fortune 500 companies. I'm a strong proponent of technology for good as a board member and organizer at several non-profits.
Recently I've been working on a side project based around one of my favorite video game series of all time: Final Fantasy. More specifically entries I through VI, the ones I grew up playing on the NES and SNES. Recently they have been re-released in a beautiful format as the Pixel Remasters and I decided it was time to finally put my knowledge of the games on to the internet for no reason other than I love them and want to have a guide that is built my way to share with the world.
Hotwire is the new default front-end framework for Rails 7 applications. Using a combination of Stimulus and Turbo, it allows for significant speed increases due to the use of Ajax requests instead of page reloads, and provides the ability to easily build dynamic applications by slicing up pages and simply adding a few lines of code.
inert Global Attribute and its Usecases
As a web developer, you may encounter situations where you need to disable user interaction with certain elements on a webpage. One relatively recent way to achieve this is by using the inert HTML global attribute. This attribute makes an element and all of its descendants non-interactive and un-focusable, effectively disabling user input events such as clicks, touches, and keyboard events.
