I didn't much care for vanilla JavaScript prior to ES6. Through all of the 2000s, I chased different approaches to avoid writing too much of it. First there was RJS (Ruby-to-JavaScript). Then there was CoffeeScript. Both transpiling approaches that turned... (more…)

A framework or library is just a set of tools that are created to solve a recurring problem more efficiently. Hence, there’s nothing that… (more…)

Today I am announcing prettier, a JavaScript formatter inspired by refmt with advanced support for language features from ES2017, JSX, and Flow. Prettier gets rid of all original styling and guarantees consistency by parsing JavaScript into an AST and pre...

30000 lines of client-side JavaScript. No tests. Two difficult TV deployment platforms with poor tooling. Strong dependencies on poorly documented external APIs. The task: add support for a third TV platform to the two supported platforms and switch to a ...

Describe the bug Context: This is a throw away account to preserve my privacy. I am a dev at a Fortune 500 and my manager is an a@@ h@@@ who doesn't understand or cares about security. Recently... (more…)