Daily Developer Tips

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

Modern JS is gatekeeping

Black Friday Sale: Make 2019 the year you master JavaScript

How Netflix dramatically improved their front end performance by switching to vanilla JS

How to find a single item in an array with vanilla JS

Just because a big, well-known tech company does something doesn't mean you should, too

Why isn't there an Object.forEach() method?

A vanilla JS forEach() helper method

My CSS methodology

When to use CSS vs. JavaScript

Overengineering CSS

Vanilla JS isn't hard, but learning it is

Displaying the elapsed time in plain English with vanilla JS

CSS isn't broken, your developers just suck at it

What the hell is the call() method and when should you use it?

How to make accessible custom checkboxes and radio buttons

How to build a query string from an object with vanilla JS

October 2018

Getting direct descendant elements by selector with vanilla JS

Getting an array of form data with vanilla JS

How to serialize form data with vanilla JS

Debouncing your JavaScript events

How to add a new item to an object at a specific position with vanilla JS

Creating a localStorage helper library

Why would you write your own JavaScript library instead of using an established project?

When to use new in JavaScript

Constructor patterns vs. plain objects vs. traditional functions

How to create your own vanilla JS DOM manipulation library like jQuery

Creating your own vanilla JS helper library like Lodash and Underscore.js

Building low impact websites

The web is actually really slow

Why should JavaScript developers learn CSS?

Plugins for Sublime and VS Code that make it easier to write documentation

Frameworks are a barrier to entry

Adding more structure to your JavaScript projects

Brutalist web design

My Gulp Setup