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May 2022

May 12, 2022

Web developers and trust
May 11, 2022

Are developers lazy?
May 10, 2022

Building a find-the-monster game with vanilla JavaScript
May 9, 2022

Learning new things and the importance of failure

April 2022

April 14, 2022

Emoji are still weird (but modern browser methods help)
April 12, 2022

Emoji are weird
April 8, 2022

How to make a deep copy of an array or object with vanilla JavaScript
April 7, 2022

Your website is a pollution machine
April 6, 2022

How to get and set a date object from an input with vanilla JavaScript
April 5, 2022

How to get the value of an input as a number with vanilla JavaScript
April 4, 2022

An open chat about being a developer with ADHD
April 1, 2022

The importance of habits

March 2022

March 31, 2022

Removing jQuery is good for performance
March 30, 2022

Building things to last
March 29, 2022

Working with forms with vanilla JavaScript
March 28, 2022

Preventing layout shift with numbers using CSS
March 25, 2022

Learning the fundamentals
March 24, 2022

Is jQuery still relevant in 2022?
March 22, 2022

My code is sloppy
March 21, 2022

HTML semantics
March 17, 2022

Climbing up the DOM tree with vanilla JavaScript
March 16, 2022

Accessibility, assistive technology, and JavaScript
March 15, 2022

How to automatically size a textarea based on its using vanilla JavaScript
March 11, 2022

JavaScript, ADHD, and PAW Patrol
March 10, 2022

Browser-native TypeScript? What about JSX or dom diffing?
March 9, 2022

Join me for a live chat on Thunder Nerds
March 8, 2022

How to become a vanilla JavaScript badass
March 7, 2022

When are developer tools worth using, and when do they just add more overhead?
March 4, 2022

Third-party scripts were a mistake
March 3, 2022

JavaScript is weird
March 2, 2022

Progressive Enhancement, the New Hotness™
March 1, 2022

How to write good comments

February 2022

February 28, 2022

Vanilla JS Projects
February 24, 2022

Interview with a senior JavaScript developer in 2022
February 23, 2022

How to make MPAs that are as fast as SPAs