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I’m a web developer and a consultant. Almost everything here is web related. Maybe I’m talking about a CMS, CSS, or UX or UI. Or maybe it’s about web browsers and HTML5.

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Cyril and Methodius were very proud of the script they created. Latin was for dorks.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Folks who get to know me usually (and regrettably) discover that I am a language nerd. I like learning languages and I like learning about languages. There’s all sorts of things that are fascinating about languages: where they come from, why they sound a certain way, why grammar is what it is. But lately, I’ve

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Anyone who writes on a regular basis experiences at least one existential crisis

Reading Time: 8 minutes In 2023 where servers are cheap and platforms are free, it’s ridiculously easy for anyone to set up a blog and start flinging words at the web. You can become a “blogger” in the time it takes for Starbucks to make your low-fat half soy milk decaf mocha cherry mint latte frappuccino. There’s no one

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Emoji Mural

Reading Time: 9 minutes There have been two things that have appeared in newer versions of JavaScript that I haven’t understood: Symbols and Iterators. When it comes to code I have to learn by doing, no amount of reading Mozilla Developer Network was going to help me understand Symbols. So I finally decided to stop reading articles, crack open

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The hardest part about CSS actually isn't calculating specificity. It's saying 'specificity'.

Reading Time: 8 minutes There’s a seldom-discussed concept in web software development called cyclomatic complexity which is a metric used to indicate how complex a program or unit of code is. It’s not discussed very often because, well, it’s really not exciting. You can get VS Code plugins that will measure the cyclomatic complexity and they can be somewhat

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sipping a cup of Java making some copies

Reading Time: 6 minutes Have you ever sat down to write a bit of JavaScript thinking, “this is easy; shouldn’t take more than a few minutes,” and then six hours later there you are with a bottle of whisky in one hand and a sharpened stick in the other shouting curses in Latin at StackOverflow answers? Obviously that’s a

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Moon in a circular window with the sea. It's weird

Reading Time: 3 minutes A complaint I hear sometimes from folks programmers learning JavaScript is that it has both null and undefined. If JavaScript is your first programming language, this may not seem weird, but once you compare it to others… yeah, it’s strange. I have some suspicions for why this is and they may not be right but

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A weird painting of two humanoids maybe screaming in each other's general direction

Reading Time: 3 minutes About every month I find myself looking at some US Dialect Map trying to figure out where some person I’ve met fits in. And inevitably it takes me back to pondering the fact that in my own family we speak at least two, maybe three separate dialects of American English. In fact I have a

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A Salvador Dali style painting of a digital clock where it looks like an analog clock forgot numbers and grew weird assymetrical antennae as legs

Reading Time: 2 minutes Who cares about friends? How would you like to piss of Todd who won’t shut up about this season’s IPAs and Elon Musk’s 4D chess he’s playing on Twitter? Screw Todd. No one likes him and he deserves to hurt for making you think about NFTs again. Let’s use JavaScript’s type coercion in awful ways