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June 2021

PHP is a great language

How to add characters to the beginning or end of a string if it's less than a certain length with vanilla JS

How to trim whitespace from the beginning and end of a string with vanilla JS

How to format a number to a fixed number of decimal places with vanilla JS

How to convert strings to numbers with vanilla JS (and back again)

A complete guide to accessible front end components

The mobile web is the web

Arrow functions in vanilla JS

Sometimes you just need JavaScript

Tech interviews are stupid

May 2021

HTML and CSS replacements for JavaScript

Inclusive design principles

How to check if two items are equal in vanilla JS

Ten quick accessibility tests you can do right now

A new free course for learning CSS

Classes vs. prototypal inheritance in vanilla JS

When you make accessibility easier, websites get more accessible

Accessibility is hard. It's also your job.

How to easily add CSS animations to your projects

I'll be speaking at JSNation Live about service workers in June

How to lazy load images and iframes with the native HTML loading attribute

How to get the next and previous sibling elements with vanilla JS

How to get the first and last elements inside a parent with vanilla JS

Expanding access to JavaScript learning

Abstracting a vanilla JS autocomplete component

Creating an Ajax autocomplete component with HTML and vanilla JS

Getting an array from a string with vanilla JS

Template literals and string interpolation in vanilla JS

Coding is breaking problems into tiny parts

April 2021

How to setup a middleman API with vanilla JS

API credentials and security with vanilla JS

API authentication with vanilla JS

Custom event naming conventions in vanilla JS

A custom event helper function

Canceling custom events with vanilla JS