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10 articles from November 2017 · show all

How to DDoS yourself with analytics –– a war story

Livecoding 52: First impressions of Vue

Arcane JavaScript knowledge still useful

How to add real web push notifications to your webapp

You've probably seen web notifications before. YouTube shows them when it goes to a new song, Facebook pings them when a new message comes in, scammy websites ask for permissions and you say no. The usual. You can fire those notifications from anywhere inside your JavaScript.

After a week I must begrudgingly admit VSCode is a better editor than Emacs

Livecoding 51: I did it! My first PR to a big OSS project \o/

My love letter to Prettier

Livecoding Recap 50: How newbie mistakes kill the flow

Why I won't be switching to VSCode any time soon

$16,863 October sidehustle report