About Me

I’m Tania Rascia, a web designer/developer from Chicago. I started designing websites for fun in 1998, yet I went to culinary school and worked as professional chef for 8 years. I embarked on a career change into web development in 2014 and I’ve been doing what I love and am passionate about since.

I use this website to document and share everything I learn, and share a bit of myself with the world. My goal is to create concise, easy-to-follow guides for beginner/intermediate developers that make no assumptions, list all prerequisites, and have clear, attainable goals. I’ve written the How to Code in JavaScript and Understanding the DOM tutorial series on DigitalOcean, and I’ve written for SitePoint.

I strongly believe in being the change I wish to see in the world (and internet), which is why you’ll see no ads, pop ups, or sponsorships on my site. I have a lot planned for the future, so I encourage you to join my email list or connect with me on GitHub and/or Twitter.

I speak Spanish, sing and play accordion, and love to travel, hike and backpack as much as I can.

You can email [email protected] to reach me. I would love to hear from you!

What I’m doing now

Working full time as a PHP Developer
Writing articles about JavaScript and the DOM for DigitalOcean.
Constantly redesigning my website (new version July 25!)

Updated July 25, 2018
Inspired by Leo Babauta and Derek Sivers.

Projects

Laconia
An MVC PHP application from scratch without any libraries, frameworks, or dependencies. Utilizes routing, authentication, object-oriented programming, and the model-view-controller architecture.

New Moon
A dark syntax theme optimized for web development that I’m delighted to use every day – available on Visual Studio Code, Atom, Brackets, and Sublime Text.

Cafétography
A project to keep track of the flavor and ambiance of all the coffeeshops that I write at around the city of Chicago.

Primitive
A minimalist Sass starterpack built that provides helpful, browser-consistent styling for buttons, forms, tables, lists, and typography.

HTML5 Test
A test page that contains all the most common HTML5 elements. Toggle between all the most common front end frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation, Skeleton, Material, and Primitive).

Ivory & Ivory
A list of all my musical recordings, in which I sing and play accordion.

Amtrak Signals
A small, mobile web app I made for passing the Amtrak signal test.

Publications

Speaking

Developing a WordPress Theme From Scratch
April 30, 2017 – WordCamp Chicago

Currently Using

Computer: MacBook Pro 2015
Host: NearlyFreeSpeech (Website), Amazon Web Services (Newsletter)
Editor: Visual Studio Code
CMS: WordPress
Syntax Highlighting: PrismJS
Code Theme: New Moon
Newsletter: Sendy
Workflow: Gulp, NPM Scripts
Notes: SimpleNote

Tania Rascia

What I’m doing now

Projects

Publications

DigitalOcean

SitePoint

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Speaking

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