Xavi Benjamín

Category: Code

  • How to Rename Your Git Branch

    I have to look this up so frequently that I decided to write my own blog post to remind myself. Here’s how to rename a git branch. Since I can’t seem to commit (haha!) this to memory, I’ve decided to add the following alias to my dotfiles: Then I can use the alias in my…

  • Respect Frontend Dev

    Jens Oliver Meiert: In order to become a better frontend developer you don’t become a backend developer, you become a better designer and advocate for the user—in a sense of acquiring an understanding of design as well as empathy for users. When other developers look and talk down on frontend developers they don’t only show…

  • Show Off Your Letterboxd Film Diary with Eleventy

    We’ll use an Eleventy data file and an NPM package to parse the Letterboxd RSS feed into JSON

  • How I Made My Badass ‘Listening To’ Section

    We’ll use the Last.fm API and Eleventy to make it happen

  • Using Cloud.typography Fonts on Micro.blog

    Turns out, you can use Cloud.typography fonts on here, and doing it isn’t too difficult. You’ll need to edit the CSS of your theme. Copy the URL from the code that Cloud.typography gives you, and insert that into an @import statement. Then change the font-family to reflect whichever font you chose. In my case, I’m…

  • Questions to Ask in Interviews

    As you might’ve heard, I’m looking for a job. Julia Evans wrote a great post on questions she asks during interviews. It’s helped me so much, prompting me to ask questions I’d never thought of before, or never had the guts to ask. Julia’s post reminded me that when you’re interviewing somewhere, you should be interviewing them…