Technical

useReducer + useContext for easy global state without libraries

useAuth – the simplest way to add authentication to your React app

Better engineer or More Effective engineer?

A short lesson in debugging complex systems

The day I crashed production 4 times

The unreasonable difficulty of adding a feature to a Textarea

A whole new level of technical decision

How to drive React state with D3 transitions for complex animation

A Drilldown Piechart with React and D3

TypeScript's biggest flaw and how you can use ducks to fix it

Is JavaScript really getting too complex?

Getting the CSS out of rendered React components

TypeScript for serverless lambda backends 👌

A few months ago I inherited a Kotlin project. It was an unfinished prototype and all I had to do was wrap it up and deploy. Every time I touched the project, it broke. Nothing worked. Wouldn't run on my machine, wouldn't read API requests, couldn't get tests working, if I changed some code I broke it all. That's when I realized learning a new field is super hard

Just for fun 👉 React vs. jQuery vs. Svelte, same 🐱 app

I was bored Monday night and decided to see if I still know how to build with jQuery. Nothing better to do, no pressing ideas, a bit of fun. Also a favor for a friend who's preparing to talk about React to a bunch of people who've never seen it before 😛

Svelte takes the best of React and the best of Vue to make something awesome

The Phoenix Project recap

LOLCODE-to-JavaScript compiler babel macro

A fully functioning LOLCODE-to-JavaScript compiler implemented as a Babel macro. You never thought you wanted this and now here it is. You're welcome. 🐱

The web moves fast, how do you keep up?

comp sci ain't useless

Build better software with The Theory of Constraints

Finally, a practical use case for JavaScript generators!

JavaScript generators are amazing. They let you write infinite loops that terminate. Yield values from functions before they finish … and I bet you've never used a JavaScript generator even once did you? I FOUND A USE! A real world practical use-case where generators make your code better. 😱

Serverless Chrome on AWS Lambda, the guide that works in 2019 and beyond

Custom markdown extensions with Remark and HAST handlers

Trying the new ResizeObserver and IntersectionObserver APIs

BrowserStack – a less painful way to test weird browsers

Fixing laggy UI with React.memo

useDimensions – a React Hook to measure DOM nodes

Learning a new field is super hard, I get it now 😅

Why dataviz does better for your career than TODOapps

Behind the curve ... of my bar donut chart 🤨