Daily Developer Tips

I send out a short email each weekday with code snippets, tools, techniques, and interesting stuff from around the web.

January 2019

How to learn CSS

Build for failure

How many people are missing out on JavaScript enhancements?

Kindness

Does progressive enhancement still matter?

Adding options and settings to a script

A talk about the Lean Web at Boston CSS

Removing duplicates from an array with vanilla js

Merging two or more arrays with vanilla JS

A simple, progressively enhanced audio player with vanilla JS

Headless WordPress with Static Website Generators

December 2018

A year in vanilla JS - 2018

On code reuse and abstraction

If naming things is hard your function does too much

CSS and Box Sizing

Learning CSS

Accessible HTML Patterns

Building a tip calculator with vanilla JS

Not all code is the same

How to create a vanilla JS search page for a static website

This and that

How to use aria-live with dynamic content

Why you shouldn't just always set useCapture to true with vanilla JS event listeners

What's the difference between JavaScript event delegation, bubbling, and capturing?

Why is JavaScript event delegation better than attaching events to each element?

Extending CSS with vanilla JavaScript

Adding items to an object at a specific path with vanilla JS

How to get the value of an object from a specific path with vanilla JS

What makes someone a musician?

How to create a new object with only a subset of properties using vanilla JS

Knowing how to solve problems is more important than technical skills

November 2018

A new Gulp boilerplate

What to do when querySelector() fail on valid selectors

What makes someone a good front-end developer?

Just use :focus styles, damnit