Introduction
A small introduction to myself and what I do, along with my goals and my plans for the future.
Hi, I'm Braxton Krusemark.
Tech Nerd
School: Western Iowa Tech Community College
High School: Cherokee High School
Major: Cybersecurity and Digital Crime
Latest Blog Post
Accessibility Tips for Web Developers
It's awesome to build sites that are inclusive and accessible to everyone. There are at least six key areas of disability we can optimize for: visual, hearing, mobility, cognition, speech and neural. Many tools and resources can help here, even if you're totally new to web accessibility.
Dynamically Securing Databases using Hashicorp Vault
Nowadays, it's hard to profoundly talk about security in the IT industry, since it has to be considered on so many different levels: from securing code chunks, securing containers, up to securing complex infrastructures and defining strong authorization and authentication policies across the enterprise.
Adaptive Loading - Improving Web Performance on low-end devices
Adaptive Loading: Do not just respond based on screen size, adapt based on actual device hardware. Any user can have a slow experience. In a world with widely varying device capabilities, a "one-size" fits all experience may not always work. Sites that delight users on high-end devices can be unusable on low-end ones, particularly on median mobile and desktop hardware and in emerging markets.
Don't Develop Just for Yourself - A Developer's Checklist to Accessibility
We, as developers, tend to develop sites unconsciously for people like ourselves. If we don't actively pay attention, the sites are often accessible only for certain types of people: Sighted mouse-users, who have good fine motor skills and are good at using computers.
Building a Restful CRUD API with Node JS, Express, and MongoDB
Application Programming Interface is the abbreviation for API. An API is a software interface that enables two apps to communicate with one another. In other words, an API is a messenger that sends your request to the provider and then returns the response to you.
Monitoring Performance with the PageSpeed Insights API
The PageSpeed Insights API provides free access to performance monitoring for web pages and returns data with suggestions for how to improve. The V5 API includes lab data from Lighthouse and real-world data from the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX).
The best web accessibility tools for developers in 2021
The quality of the tools you use defines the speed with which you can diagnose and resolve problems. Each year the landscape changes dramatically in web technologies, and of late the tooling for accessibility is no exception.
How to connect a React frontend with a NodeJS/Express backend
The MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJS) stack is very popular for making full stack applications, utilizing Javascript for both the backend and frontend as well as a document-oriented or non relational database (MongoDB), meaning that it's structured like JSON rather than a large excel sheet like SQL databases are.
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