Evan X. Merz

musician/technologist/human being

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Evan X. Merz

Evan X. Merz holds degrees in computer science and music from The University of Rochester, Northern Illinois University, and University of California at Santa Cruz. He works as a programmer at a tech company in Silicon Valley. In his free time, he is a programmer, musician, and author. He makes his online home at evanxmerz.com and he only writes about himself in third person in this stupid blurb.

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Evan's React Interview Cheat Sheet

20 March, 2022,  Evan X. Merz
programming, web-development, react, frontend, javascript, coding-interview

In this article I'm going to list some of the things that are useful in React coding interviews, but are easily forgotten or overlooked…

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How to measure the performance of a webpage

13 March, 2022,  Evan X. Merz
programming, web-development, google, core-web-vitals, pagespeed-insights

Measuring the performance of a webpage is an extremely complex topic that could fill a book. In this article I'm going to introduce some of…

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How to optimize largest contentful paint (LCP) on client side

09 March, 2022,  Evan X. Merz
programming, web-development, google, core-web-vitals, frontend, lcp, javascript

In this article I'm going to show you some strategies I've used to optimize websites on the client side for largest contentful paint (lcp…

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How to make Dropbox ignore the node_modules folder

08 March, 2022,  Evan X. Merz
programming, web-development, dropbox, frontend, javascript, git

In this article I'm going to show you how to get Dropbox to ignore the node_modules folder. Why code in a Dropbox folder? I recently bought…

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What are common mobile usability issues and how can you solve them?

07 March, 2022,  Evan X. Merz
programming, web-development, google, search-console, javascript, frontend

In this article, I'm going to show you some common mobile usability issues reported by Google, and show you how to fix them using basic css…

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