Reading Time: 15 minutesI am a front-end developer who is FED up about front-end development. If you write front-end, this isn’t about you personally. It’s about how your choices make me angry. Also this is about how my choices have made me angry. Also this is mostly just about choices, the technologies are incidental. Note: The views expressed

Reading Time: 9 minutesThere 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

Reading Time: 8 minutesThere’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

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile I generally avoid TypeScript, I’m willing to acknowledge that there might be edge cases where it could be useful. And in an effort to actually learn how to make it useful, I’m converting one of my linguistic / NLP node packages to TypeScript (Methodius, if you care). I’d already used JSDoc heavily throughout the

Reading Time: 6 minutesHave 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

Reading Time: 8 minutesThe JavaScript array. A simple, elegant data structure. Easy to make them. Easy to add data to them. Easy to sort them. Easy to iterate on them. What could possibly be weird about JavaScript arrays?

Reading Time: 3 minutesA 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

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

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.

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’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?