Senior Consultant, Software Engineer, and IT Enthusiast.
I'm Bradley Dirheimer, a Senior Consultant and Software Engineer based in Hamilton, Ohio. With over a decade of experience in IT, I specialize in Salesforce, data platforms, and building cutting-edge solutions for businesses. My goal is to empower companies to optimize their processes and customer experiences through technology.
JavaScript, while primarily known for its role in web development, offers a powerful yet often overlooked toolset for low-level data manipulation — bitwise operators. These operators work directly on the binary representation of numbers, allowing developers to perform fast, memory-efficient operations that are critical in certain computational contexts such as graphics processing, game physics, and real-time application performance.
Tailwind CSS, a utility-first CSS framework, introduces an elegant solution to this problem through its support for data attributes. This feature allows developers to conditionally apply styles based on the data attributes of HTML elements, simplifying state management and enhancing the adaptability of web interfaces.
TypeScript’s type system are utility types — generic types provided by TypeScript which can be used to transform one type into another. These utility types provide a robust tool set for developers to model complex type behaviors, making TypeScript even more versatile and efficient.
One significant enhancement is Tailwind CSS’s transition from the ‘class’ strategy to the more flexible ‘selector’ strategy, which provides greater control over user experience. This blog post explores this transition, illustrating how to manually implement and manage dark mode using the latest capabilities of Tailwind CSS.
