Henry Bley-Vroman

(pronouns he/him, pronounced /ˈhɛn.ɹi blaɪ ˈvɹəʊmən/ — last name rhymes with "sly Roman") is a dev team lead, developer of accessible UIs, mentor and coach, open source maintainer and contributor, and DEI advocate. He builds things you see on the web, creates tools to improve other builders' daily experience, teaches and mentors at work and in the tech community, and strives to support safe, kind, fair, and welcoming cultures. Most recently: established Senior UI Developer, mentor to the UI Developer apprentice, and chair of the DEI Advisory Committee at Viget. Past lives: ReCYCLEry community bike mechanic and advocate, Boston University cognitive neurobiology doctoral candidate. Current passions: Anglo concertina, outrigger canoe racing. Online as olets (pronounced /oʊ lɛts/ — "oh let's").

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Picture-in-picture GoPro videos with GPS video overlay

Scale, overlay, and multiple videos
The command line (mostly Git) abbreviations I rely on

The abbreviations that have saved me countless terminal keystrokes, and the commands to add them to your zsh or fish setup
From Stimulus to web components

Stimulus experience translates to native custom elements. What does it take to make a custom element with Stimulus features?
Adding front end interactivity to sites not written in JS

You don't need a framework
Per-page dynamic social metas in VitePress

Social previews’ titles can match the pages’
How I Configure Tailwind CSS 3

The patterns I've used on custom UIs large and small

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zsh-window-title

A zsh plugin for informative terminal window titles
zsh-transient-prompt

Add a transient prompt to your zsh command line
zsh-test-runner

Lightweight dependable tests and coverage reports for zsh software. Use it for csh, ksh, and sh too
zsh-job-queue

A cross-terminal synchronous job queue for zsh
zsh-abbr

Save keystrokes in the terminal, but -unlike aliases- without forgetting the full command or making your history unintelligible
unocss-preset-css

A front-end tool which unlocks writing something very close to vanilla CSS directly in the class attribute

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