2023

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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 minutesWho 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

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Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the last two years my wife and I have been privately taking ASL (American Sign Language) lessons. We are far from fluent but we’re also well beyond introductions and names. And something that you might wonder is, “are there accents and dialects in signed languages?”.

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a moon in a moon wearing a hat because stuff is weird.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis 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.

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBecause its origins are Greek I had a Spanish professor (who was Greek) years ago who explained that, just about any word with a “-ma” ending was a Greek word and should be treated masculine. That doesn’t mean the word in Greek was masculine, though Greek has three grammatical genders. And πρόβλημα, (provlema) is in

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’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.