Matt Kenefick

Senior Engineer -- Learn to code first. Use libraries second.

New York, New York Joined on May 14, 2019 https://www.polymermallard.com

Work

Creative Director at Polymer Mallard

vscode-css-alphabetize

Alphabetizes the properties of CSS structures

TypeScript • 3 stars

twigtovue

A Twig to Vue template converter

PHP

Language Processing
Machine Learning

Xamarin
VueJS
Laravel
Varnish
Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)

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Side projects
Contract work
Full-time (if it's perfect)

41 posts published

6 comments written

12 tags followed

Matt Kenefick

Aug 26

Using nginx to look for files by server date, e.g. 2022-07-10.json

#beginners #nginx #server

1 min read

Day 1: Who likes it? - A coding challenge with solutions

function likes(...names) { const adjective = names.leng...

Aug 5 '21

Introduction to Generators in JavaScript

Here's a potential usage/implementation of a generator. This ...

Aug 5 '21

Day 1: Who likes it? - A coding challenge with solutions

Here's a solution that takes a few more things into account: ...

Aug 5 '21

Why tabs are better than spaces

I'm more of a JSFiddle guy. They have a setting for tabs in t...

Jul 28 '21

CSS Alphabetize plugin for VSCode

Thanks for the feedback. If I'm understanding you correctly,...

Jul 20 '21

Installing Vim in a Docker Container

In my experience, most docker containers are intentionally st...

Nov 4 '20

Matt Kenefick

Jan 7

AdonisJS Refresh Command

#javascript #beginners #node

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Dec 22 '21

Bookmarklet for injecting scripts onto a page

#javascript

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Sep 3 '21

Regex: Parsing usernames from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

#beginners #javascript #php #regex

2 min read

Matt Kenefick

Aug 26 '21

Fetch random items that are likely popular

#beginners #javascript #php #algorithms

7 min read

Matt Kenefick

Aug 20 '21

Conway’s Game of Life in JavaScript

#javascript #algorithms #beginners

9 min read

Matt Kenefick

Aug 19 '21

Xamarin.Forms System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path

#xamarinforms #csharp #bugs

3 1

2 min read

Matt Kenefick

Aug 14 '21

A clean way to safely call your potentially destructive methods in PHP

#php #laravel #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Matt Kenefick

Aug 12 '21

Revisiting Shadow DOM: Nested items, dynamic templates, shadowRoot

#beginners #javascript #html #webdev

3 min read

Matt Kenefick

Aug 4 '21

Snippets in JavaScript: Converting PascalCase to kebab-case // Integrating with ShadowDOM

#beginners #javascript #regex

4 min read

Matt Kenefick

Aug 2 '21

Snippets in C#: Shorthand Instantiation

#beginners #csharp

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 29 '21

Snippets in C#: Offsets and substrings

#beginners #csharp #snippet #tutorial

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 29 '21

Debouncing TypeScript

#beginners #typescript #javascript #debounce

6 1

3 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 28 '21

Format parser for Prettier and ESLint

#regex #formatter #javascript #typescript

2 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 27 '21

Why tabs are better than spaces

#beginners #code #editor #redpill

10 7

2 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 20 '21

CSS Alphabetize plugin for VSCode

#vscode #css #plugin #organization

19 4

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 17 '21

QuickTip: Reminders about recursive functions

#beginners #recursive #javascript #typescript

3 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 15 '21

Writing a custom "pluckMultiple" function for Laravel

#beginners #laravel #php

3 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 13 '21

Fading an element using only Javascript

#javascript #beginners #animation

6 1

2 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 5 '21

Box Comment plugin for VSCode

#vscode #plugin #javascript #comment

6 1

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jun 21 '21

MacBook Pro screenshot shortcut delayed by 2-10s [solved]

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jun 8 '21

Snippet: Grab lat/lon from Google Maps URL

#beginners #regex #javascript

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

May 25 '21

Javascript: Alphabet as array

#beginners #javascript

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

May 13 '21

Regex: Fix duplicate slashes without affecting protocol

#beginners #php #javascript #regex

9 2

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

May 5 '21

preg_replace_callback for Javascript

#beginners #javascript #php #regex

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Apr 26 '21

Commands to check your technical debt in Laravel

#beginners #php #laravel

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Mar 21 '21

Replacing ngrok with frp

#tutorial #beginners

3 min read

Matt Kenefick

Feb 5 '21

Regex: Extract YouTube ID from URL

#php

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Dec 19 '20

Font weight reference

#css #beginners

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Dec 6 '20

lstree: list directory in structured format

#bash #beginners

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Dec 2 '20

Reminder: Surrogate keys should also represent query params

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Nov 17 '20

Automatically change your Twitter background every 5 minutes

#beginners #php #bash #systems

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Nov 16 '20

Resize images based on page position

#javascript #beginners #html #css

2 min read

Matt Kenefick

Oct 21 '20

Pedal: Push to Talk device — Full build

#showdev #csharp

3 min read

Matt Kenefick

Sep 25 '20

Device template generators

#bash #ios #android #images

7 min read

Matt Kenefick

Sep 12 '20

Regex: Convert markdown links to HTML anchors

#beginners #javascript #php #markdown

10 2

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Aug 27 '20

Cache.

#beginners

11 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 23 '20

Pure CSS wiping gradient text reveal

#css #html #tutorial #beginners

2 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 21 '20

Ambient YouTube Browser Plugin

#javascript #html

1 min read

Matt Kenefick

Jul 17 '20

Combining popular things and random things

#javascript #architecture #devops

4 min read

Matt Kenefick

Sep 17 '20

Chrome Plugin: StreetEasy Plus

#realestate #chrome #plugin #browser

2 min read

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