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Hello, world! I'm James :)

James Cox on August 17, 2020

It's nice to meet you www.jamescox.dev Being my first post, I thought it would be fitting to share my newly-hosted portfolio site, made...
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Valentin D.

Hello James, I'm world

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James Cox

Hi Valentin! Touche!

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Paul (hxii) Glushak

Firstly - welcome!

Great work on your portfolio and projects! I do hope you're open to some criticism though.

Imagine yourself being a visitor (even on dev.to) from a less privileged country when it comes to internet connection quality. Let's say the best you could muster is a Fast 3G connection. How annoyed would you be with this?
16 seconds

Let's assume you somehow, miraculously got a fiber connection (let's say 600/85, based on fast.com) and you revisit the page. You see this. How annoyed would you still be?
5 seconds

Do you see where I'm getting at?

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James Cox

Paul,

Thank you for your compliment and your feedback! I admit that I hadn't considered the load speed on different connections. I will have to look into the longer load times on slower connections. My first instinct is my picture files are probably a lot larger than they need to be. But I'm sure there are other factors at play. Thank you again and I appreciate you taking time to comment!

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John Peters

Welcome to Dev.to James!

I can assure you the IT world needs English majors in the worst way. It's always a nice surprise to read well crafted technical articles. Please post often!

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James Cox

Thanks John! To be honest, I haven't written very much since graduating. I worked on a novel for a couple years, but it never really took off.

I am currently working on a series of blog posts about using various React hooks, and I hope to have the first one out soon (maybe by the end of today?)

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Nick Taylor

Congrats on your first post and welcome to DEV!

Spiderman swinging by to say hello

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James Cox

Thank you, Nick! Nice to meet you! I already prefer DEV to Medium. Wondering why it took me so long to switch over!

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Liu Yongliang

Looking forward to your articles🦄

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James Cox

Thanks, Liu! I hope I don't dissapoint ;)

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Pholisa Fatyela

Welcome, James

I truly loved your post. I can't wait to read more

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James Cox

Thank you, Pholisa! I can't wait to write and share more! I hope to have my first technical article up later today!

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Andrew Baisden

Welcome to DEV James!

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James Cox

Thank you, Andrew! Happy to be here!

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sanderdebr

Hi James, welcome to Dev! Awesome post to read and GIF FIT looks cool, if you ever want to do a project together hit me up :-))

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James Cox

Thank you, Sanderdebr! That sounds awesome. I am currently idea-less for projects at the moment. So I'm flling my time with a series of blog posts using React hooks based on a simple timer function I created. If you have any ideas let me know!

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

It is well optimized for mobile, nice. But wouldn't it be good to involve less click on desktop as well?