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November 2021

November 29, 2021

Big surprise! That guy who made a third of his company quit has no idea what he's talking about.
November 24, 2021

My preferred way to pass arguments into a function with vanilla JavaScript
November 23, 2021

How to bundle ES modules into multiple formats with rollup.js
November 22, 2021

Creating a time and date utility library with JavaScript
November 19, 2021

HTML templates with vanilla JavaScript
November 18, 2021

The not quite Black Friday event
November 17, 2021

Adding time with vanilla JavaScript
November 16, 2021

Changes to the Vanilla JS Academy workshops
November 15, 2021

Structuring and organizing JavaScript projects for scale
November 12, 2021

How is JavaScript changing?
November 11, 2021

A vanilla JS state-based UI library?
November 10, 2021

Immutability in JavaScript libraries
November 9, 2021

All the podcasts
November 8, 2021

My Sublime Text setup for front end web development
November 5, 2021

Strategies for working with data attributes in vanilla JavaScript
November 4, 2021

Managing data attributes with the dataset property in vanilla JavaScript
November 3, 2021

How to get, set, and remove data attributes with vanilla JavaScript
November 1, 2021

The golden rule of JavaScript: use as little as possible

October 2021

October 29, 2021

Autogrowing textareas
October 28, 2021

Users > developers
October 26, 2021

David Bowie on the internet
October 25, 2021

The css :not() pseudo-selector
October 22, 2021

Pair programming sucks
October 21, 2021

Decoupling HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in design systems
October 20, 2021

What is type coercion in vanilla JavaScript (and how does it work)?
October 19, 2021

What even is JavaScript?
October 18, 2021

How to debug event listeners with your browser's developer tools
October 15, 2021

Boolean shorthands and truthiness
October 14, 2021

Was it easier to build websites a decade ago?
October 13, 2021

Vanilla JS Academy for Teams
October 12, 2021

Function expressions vs. function declarations revisisted
October 11, 2021

Transitional apps
October 8, 2021

Service worker strategies
October 7, 2021

How to delete an item from an array with vanilla JavaScript
October 6, 2021

A practical example of flat file storage