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January 2020

The CSS cascade (or, how browsers resolve competing CSS styles)

Variable hoisting in JavaScript

What is hoisting in vanilla JavaScript?

What is that third argument on the vanilla JS addEventListener() method and when do you need it?

Kitchen Table Adventures

Regex with JavaScript

JavaScript gotcha: object.assign() merges into the first object

No, a framework is not faster than vanilla JS DOM manipulation (but it can be)

JavaScript gotcha: global variable assignment

A shorthand for adding to a number or string with vanilla JS

The Lean Web in Net Magazine

The peoples web

Recursion with vanilla JavaScript

The state of Go Make Things 2019

How to set default values when destructuring with JavaScript

Destructuring in JavaScript

Using multiple selectors with querySelector(), querySelectorAll(), closest(), and matches()

Small technology

December 2019

The best thing you read this year

My favorite resource for learning CSS

The new MS Edge is very, very good

Different ways to learn JavaScript

The browser wars: an abridged history

Mutable vs. Immutable in JavaScript

HTML as a building block

Five interesting ways (and one boring way) to use Array.reduce()

HTML is a living language

Vanilla JS Web Components

Error handing when using the vanilla JS fetch() method with async and await

How to use async and await with vanilla JavaScript

How to use the fetch() method to make multiple API calls with vanilla JavaScript

What's the difference between encodeURI() and encodeURIComponent() in vanilla JS?

Building an accessible show/hide disclosure component with vanilla JS

When should you add the defer attribute to the script element?

Defining unneeded variables in JavaScript