Charles Villard

Hi, my name is
Charles Villard.
I code stuff.

I'm a Software Engineer at HPE, sometimes a public speaker, and a community organizer and moderator. I enjoy writing about UI tooling, front-end web development, design systems, static site generators, and JavaScript!

Blog

Updated September 1, 2024

Learn your tools

Your tools have more depth than you think.

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Updated August 29, 2024

Giving yourself grace

Sometimes, rest is sweeter.

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Updated August 27, 2024

Curation

Algorithms can produce things. Conversation and community, not so much.

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Updated August 26, 2024

By the 46th episode

Trying to build something more than a career outside of my job

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Updated August 24, 2024

There's no %20 in file-system naming!

Ever wondered why programmers don't want space in their directory names?

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Updated April 22, 2024

Copy other people's copywork

Copying work will get you to unique work.

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Updated April 20, 2024

Trying out a new developer Biome (get it?!)

Developer experience is just as much about shedding bytes and time off the user experience as website performance is. Biome helps with that in a major way.

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Posted March 19, 2024

Testing for 'U's and not 'u's

In a world where code coverage rules with an iron fist, someone needs to standup for developer productivity.

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Posted January 30, 2024

Post-to-post: 2023 from the rearview mirror

2023 is officially so last year. Mine was fairly eventful. I forgot to write about it until now.

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Posted January 19, 2023

Keeping a record

On the practice of recording your career

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Posted November 29, 2022

Jamstack Conf 2022 - One Dev's Recap

One developer's recap of Netlify's Jamstack Conf 2022. It's me. I'm the developer.

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Posted November 11, 2022

On the way home from JamstackConf 2022

Heading home from Jamstack Conf 2022, and trying to contain all I learned in one brain.

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