Articles by Emerson

Lighthouse Parade is a Node.js command line tool that crawls a domain and gathers lighthouse performance data for every page. With a single command, the tool will crawl an entire site, run a Lighthouse report for each page, and then output a spreadsheet with the aggregated data. Each row in the generated spreadsheet is a page on the site, and each individual performance metric is a column. This is convenient for high-level analysis because you can sort the rows by whichever metric you are analyzing.

We recently set up a GitHub Action to automatically upload our site updates to WP Engine whenever we push to a specific branch. we suspect other teams might find it useful, too.

The other day I was building a responsive website with a navigation menu that slides into view from the left when you click the menu button. I was about to head off to the pub,…

Problem-solving is an essential part of software development. Sometimes we get stuck on a particularly baffling problem, and this can feel frustrating and discouraging. The following are some strategies for getting yourself "unstuck."