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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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April 2017

• April 20, 2017

  Shuffling JavaScript array values
• April 19, 2017

  Default values for JavaScript variables
• April 18, 2017

  You don’t need to cache array length. Except when you do.
• April 17, 2017

  Detecting clicks outside of an element with vanilla JS
• April 14, 2017

  .document vs .window in JavaScript
• April 13, 2017

  Attaching multiple elements to a single event listener in vanilla JS
• April 12, 2017

  Types of errors that strict mode catches (that would otherwise be ignored)
• April 11, 2017

  Where to activate strict mode in your scripts
• April 10, 2017

  JavaScript Strict Mode (and why you should always use it)
• April 7, 2017

  Working with cookies in vanilla JS
• April 6, 2017

  A better way to load scripts with JavaScript (or, why document.write() sucks)
• April 5, 2017

  Removing an element from the DOM with vanilla JS
• April 4, 2017

  Adding a new element to the DOM with vanilla JS
• April 3, 2017

  Adding markup to an element with vanilla JS

March 2017

• March 31, 2017

  JavaScript Selector Performance
• March 14, 2017

  Password rules are bullshit
• March 8, 2017

  Better free products through Easy Digital Downloads
• March 7, 2017

  Automating Slack and WordPress
• March 6, 2017

  A collection of vanilla JavaScript helper functions
• March 2, 2017

  Detecting when a visitor has stopped scrolling with vanilla JavaScript

February 2017

• February 24, 2017

  Allowing iFrames in sanitized WordPress content
• February 20, 2017

  Planning out your scripts
• February 19, 2017

  Ditching jQuery at WordPress RI Meetup
• February 13, 2017

  CSS breakpoints in JavaScript
• February 13, 2017

  How to add custom fields to posts and pages in WordPress
• February 9, 2017

  All that we share
• February 6, 2017

  Dolphins are really, really smart!

January 2017

• January 31, 2017

  Land of the Free
• January 30, 2017

  Obama's Mailroom
• January 26, 2017

  Why some Uber drivers are sleeping in their cars
• January 19, 2017

  Steal like a Panda
• January 18, 2017

  Fix for SSH passphrases on MacOS Sierra
• January 7, 2017

  A History of Skis

December 2016

• December 26, 2016

  Handling Chinese and Cyrillic character hash and href values in JavaScript
• December 21, 2016

  HTML, ajax, iframes, and performance hacks