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Hey there Fellow Human, I'm Jacob. I am a software engineer, creator, and designer.
Thanks for visiting my personal site. It's a place where I experiment with new ideas, technology and occasionally ramble on about a topic or two that I care about.
Behind the scenes view of how cool I look when I build websites. See how jacob milhorn dot com was made using 11ty static site generator, Vue single file components, and Slinkity to bring it all together.
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I'm Jacob. TL;DR I transitioned from designing theoretical machines for advanced manufacturing processes in aerospace to designing concrete software solutions so that I could help real people with real problems.
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The more I invest in foundational knowledge, the more often I see the benefit in every area of expertise in which I am trying to grow.
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Without dynamic imports, Island architecture wouldn't make nearly as much sense, since you would be loading all JS right out of the gate. `import()` lets us load components precisely when we want to - a powerful mechanism that powers our Islands.
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Have you ever used Web Components and experienced some troublesome Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) as the page loads? This article presents a simple fix.
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