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
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is another one in the occasional series of, “weird JavaScript” where I address weird stuff in JavaScript that only haunts your nightmares if you dream in other programming languages. Today we discuss what the hell === actually does. Buckle-up buttercups. Grab a snickers and a whisky we’re going for a ride.
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m going to have an occasional series about weird stuff in JavaScript. Let’s kick this off with a weird question: Why is it that when you have [] + [], you get an empty string (”) ? Isn’t this against the law?
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m not Kyle Simpson or Jordan Harband. I’m not some massive JavaScript influencer and OSSer who’s writing new lint tools and utilities. But I am a dude who loves code standardization. So I want to share some good-enough JavaScript practices that anyone who has to touch JS can follow.
Reading Time: 4 minutes In July of 2019, I was given the opportunity to speak at SDL Connect, which would be taking place in October. We debated a bit at EXLRT on what the topic should be, but we finally settled on, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software” Settling on the topic was easy enough, but then we
Reading Time: 6 minutes For the past few years I’ve been writing these, “year in review” things to summarize my full year. This time around, I’m going to review an entire friggin’ decade. Why? Because a lot has happened in a near decade. 2010 In July of 2010 I left a company called Mannatech after working there for five
Reading Time: 4 minutes This has been the craziest year since I’ve begun blogging. Which is why I hardly blogged. Let’s start at the beginning: January For the sixth year in a row, I was awarded SDL MVP. I was surprised. It’s wild to think that I’ve won that award six times on just the merits of running my
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ever been the new person on an old project where you were trying to not make things substantially worse? Maybe you need to position an element, but you don’t know what z-index value is safe to use. You don’t want to layer something to z-index: 9999 if z-index: 10 will suffice… but how do you
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anyone who knows me knows that I have a bit of a thing for languages. I like studying them and I like speaking them. But I also like learning how they…work. A few years ago I read a book called, The Secret Life of Pronouns which got me interested in sentiment analysis. The central thesis of
Reading Time: 9 minutes In July of 2015 I had the opportunity to participate in the first ever SDL Hackathon. The rules were relatively simple: Pick an SDL product, do something cool with it. In recent months I’ve been learning quite a bit about the Canvas API, an interface that’s part of the new HTML5 specifications. So, I decided