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Lessons from 20 years of building UIs people actually use β€” React, dataviz, and the browser platform.

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December 2017

Advent of Code Day 22 – Sporifica Virus

Advent of Code Day 20 – Particle Swarm

Advent of Code Day 19 – A Series of Tubes

Advent of Code Day 15 – Dueling JavaScript Generators

Advent of Code Day 14 – Disk Fragmentation

November 2017

How to DDoS yourself with analytics –– a war story

Arcane JavaScript knowledge still useful

September 2017

How JavaScript linters cause bugs

I was doing code review for a coworker, and it soon became obvious that he used a linter and that the linter gave him a bright idea: _use strict comparisons_.

August 2017

How you can translate any random D3 example to React

The two ways to build a zoomable dataviz component with d3.zoom and React

July 2017

More messing with time: Deduping messages between iOS and JavaScript

June 2017

A dirty Webpack trick that reduced our gzipped bundle size by 55KB

May 2017

Counting web sessions with JavaScript

How many touch points does your sales process require? Do you need 2 ad clicks or 5? Two shiny demos or one fat video? As an engineer, you might not care, but this is the stuff that keeps your CEO and growth lead and head of product up at night. A business owner that can answer that πŸ‘† question reliably is god.

March 2017

A Fast Mutex Lamport Lock with JavaScript Promises

N-body Collision Simulation with React, D3, and MobX

February 2017

Livecoding #34: A Map of Global Migrations, Part 3

How We Used Webpack to Reduce Our JS Footprint by 50

January 2017

Livecoding #30: Dipping my toes in React Native

Migrating to Webpack 2: some tips and gotchas