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I write about the intersection of frontend web development, punk, and gardening. I used to write more. Now I write less.

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July 2021

July 7, 2021

Formatting dates and times with vanilla JS
July 6, 2021

Grace Hopper on asking for forgiveness vs. asking for permission
July 2, 2021

How to use named functions as callbacks in your JavaScript

June 2021

June 30, 2021

Sustainable web development
June 29, 2021

Web development and climate change
June 28, 2021

Automatically provided arguments in JavaScript callback functions
June 25, 2021

Images and screen reader users
June 24, 2021

Watching for changes to a user's location
June 23, 2021

The Geolocation API
June 22, 2021

The full stack developer myth
June 21, 2021

How to upload and process an image file with vanilla JS
June 18, 2021

How to upload and process a JSON file with vanilla JS
June 16, 2021

How to lock an object from being updated with vanilla JS
June 15, 2021

Getting the index of the last matching item in an array with vanilla JS
June 14, 2021

PHP is a great language
June 11, 2021

How to add characters to the beginning or end of a string if it's less than a certain length with vanilla JS
June 10, 2021

How to trim whitespace from the beginning and end of a string with vanilla JS
June 9, 2021

How to format a number to a fixed number of decimal places with vanilla JS
June 8, 2021

How to convert strings to numbers with vanilla JS (and back again)
June 7, 2021

A complete guide to accessible front end components
June 4, 2021

The mobile web is the web
June 3, 2021

Arrow functions in vanilla JS
June 2, 2021

Sometimes you just need JavaScript
June 1, 2021

Tech interviews are stupid

May 2021

May 28, 2021

HTML and CSS replacements for JavaScript
May 27, 2021

Inclusive design principles
May 25, 2021

How to check if two items are equal in vanilla JS
May 24, 2021

Ten quick accessibility tests you can do right now
May 21, 2021

A new free course for learning CSS
May 20, 2021

Classes vs. prototypal inheritance in vanilla JS
May 19, 2021

When you make accessibility easier, websites get more accessible
May 18, 2021

Accessibility is hard. It's also your job.
May 17, 2021

How to easily add CSS animations to your projects
May 14, 2021

I'll be speaking at JSNation Live about service workers in June
May 13, 2021

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