I am Joseph Rex,
voyaging the boundaries of interfaces and interactions

Joseph is a software engineer at Kit, a creative technologist that loves combining art and engineering, and dad to an over-demanding australian shepherd named Glitch.

Regex: A required skillset for developers and power users

I care about information and I believe everything we do wraps around trying to find information, protecting it, and making use of it. There is Google, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines, there is grep for Unix-like system users, there are search panes on applications and websites.

I am not a perfectionist

I’m sick of hearing everyone call themselves perfectionists everywhere I go. Trust me, this is the most ridiculous thing you should call yourself from my view. I’d rather you use curse words on me than call me a perfectionist.

I'm an 'X' programmer

All things programming is a part of hackery to me. I love to hack stuffs and that’s what has pulled me into the planet of development and engineering. From my observation, some people miss the point on what programming is about.

Sending files over Ajax requests with jQuery

If you’ve been writing [jQuery,][1] you’re probably fond of writing your code this way when submitting forms with ajax

Leveraging Sass for your front-end designs

Recently I chose to move from vanilla CSS to the syntactically awesome stylesheeets and this has been a great step in my life. It’s been a breath of fresh air!

Future of CSS: Content Pseudo Selector

Before I started making use of CSS3 to create beautiful websites, I had crappy ways of getting some things done which I think some other designers also did. Since the introduction of [CSS3 pseudo selectors][1], my life got  better. They helped me achieve decent mark-up.

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