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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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December 2018

December 20, 2018

Building a tip calculator with vanilla JS
December 19, 2018

Not all code is the same
December 18, 2018

How to create a vanilla JS search page for a static website
December 17, 2018

This and that
December 14, 2018

How to use aria-live with dynamic content
December 13, 2018

Why you shouldn't just always set useCapture to true with vanilla JS event listeners
December 12, 2018

What's the difference between JavaScript event delegation, bubbling, and capturing?
December 11, 2018

Why is JavaScript event delegation better than attaching events to each element?
December 10, 2018

Extending CSS with vanilla JavaScript
December 7, 2018

Adding items to an object at a specific path with vanilla JS
December 6, 2018

How to get the value of an object from a specific path with vanilla JS
December 5, 2018

What makes someone a musician?
December 4, 2018

How to create a new object with only a subset of properties using vanilla JS
December 3, 2018

Knowing how to solve problems is more important than technical skills

November 2018

November 30, 2018

A new Gulp boilerplate
November 29, 2018

What to do when querySelector() fail on valid selectors
November 28, 2018

What makes someone a good front-end developer?
November 27, 2018

Just use :focus styles, damnit
November 26, 2018

Modern JS is gatekeeping
November 21, 2018

Black Friday Sale: Make 2019 the year you master JavaScript
November 20, 2018

How Netflix dramatically improved their front end performance by switching to vanilla JS
November 19, 2018

How to find a single item in an array with vanilla JS
November 16, 2018

Just because a big, well-known tech company does something doesn't mean you should, too
November 15, 2018

Why isn't there an Object.forEach() method?
November 14, 2018

A vanilla JS forEach() helper method
November 13, 2018

My CSS methodology
November 12, 2018

When to use CSS vs. JavaScript
November 9, 2018

Overengineering CSS
November 8, 2018

Vanilla JS isn't hard, but learning it is
November 7, 2018

Displaying the elapsed time in plain English with vanilla JS
November 6, 2018

CSS isn't broken, your developers just suck at it
November 5, 2018

What the hell is the call() method and when should you use it?
November 2, 2018

How to make accessible custom checkboxes and radio buttons
November 1, 2018

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

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Getting direct descendant elements by selector with vanilla JS