The Stream

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 2016

December 20, 2016

Google, money, and moonshots
December 19, 2016

Font Style Matcher
December 16, 2016

All maps are inaccurate
December 15, 2016

808, the official trailer
December 14, 2016

A vanilla JS equivalent to jQuery’s .is() API
December 13, 2016

a11y and text just for screen readers
December 12, 2016

Learn how to ditch jQuery and write vanilla JavaScript
December 9, 2016

Shia LeBeouf can spit
December 6, 2016

52 things learned in 2016
December 5, 2016

Tutorial: A simple show-and-hide script with vanilla JS
December 2, 2016

Jetpack Personal
December 1, 2016

Checkout cart optimizations for Easy Digital Downloads (2 new plugins)

November 2016

November 29, 2016

The Kindness Initiative
November 28, 2016

Wicked Fast Websites and The Web Developer Career Guide are now 50% off
November 23, 2016

Innovation and technology in nonprofit
November 22, 2016

WestWorld Influences
November 21, 2016

How mirrors transformed the world
November 17, 2016

Why are cats so weird?
November 16, 2016

Donations with Stripe and PayPal Express Checkout on WordPress
November 3, 2016

Progressive enhancement, and the next billion web users
November 2, 2016

The Global Mountain Range

October 2016

October 31, 2016

How to conditionally load stylesheets and JavaScript in WordPress only if a shortcode is used
October 31, 2016

The importance of saying no to ideas
October 28, 2016

Paternoster Lifts
October 24, 2016

The best of YouTube
October 21, 2016

Finance and healthcare websites have the worst web security
October 10, 2016

Wicked Fast Websites at WordCamp RI 2016
October 3, 2016

Selling things with Easy Digital Downloads

September 2016

September 28, 2016

Getting a job in management
September 26, 2016

Open Source Etiquette
September 23, 2016

Reducing Harvard Business School’s page load time by 27 percent in 15 minutes
September 21, 2016

Stop using algorithms to force relationships on people
September 7, 2016

How to disable WordPress core updates
September 2, 2016

Accessible toggle tabs and accordions

August 2016

August 25, 2016

More accessible modals