You’ve Got Options for Removing Event Listeners
Reviewing some of the most common approaches available to remove event listeners in JavaScript.
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Use the .matches() Method to Determine if a Selector Matches an Element
A Superior, Native Alternative to the Lame Approaches I’ve Used in the Past
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What I Like About Astro
What Stuck Out While Migrating My Blog from Next.js to Astro
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How to Lazy Load Disqus for Improved Site Performance
I’ve been a vocal opponent of using Disqus for a number of reasons, one of which being what it does to the performance of your
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Keep Using Disqus if You Don’t Care About SEO, Performance, and User Privacy
I remember when I first started to get a little more serious about blogging. It was with a statically generated Gatsby site, with posts stored
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When I Actually Needed useLayoutEffect() in React
If you’ve worked with React for any length of time, you’ve probably heard of the infamous useLayoutEffect() hook. You’ve also probably never used it. That’s
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Serving Notion Presigned Images with Cloudflare Workers
I recently made a pretty big change on my website. For the first time ever, my posts don’t live in Markdown files. Instead, they’re all
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I’ve Boarded the SSG Train Again
If you haven’t noticed, we’re in a bit of a server-rendered resurgence right now. It seems like the heyday of the Jamstack, and more specifically,
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Why Can’t You .forEach() Over Empty Array Items?
Harken back to a time when you needed to execute some code a specific number of times and had some reason to not use a
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Develop an SPA Against a Remote Page w/ Vite
There are serious benefits to building small applications in the context of a complex, remote page. Vite makes it pretty simple to pull it off.
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Evading Goodhart’s Law in My Personal Life
A few months ago, I stumbled across Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.An example: The owner of
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Reminding Myself that Maps Store Objects by Reference Too
No matter how many times I revisit it, I have pretty consistent track record of being tripped up by how JavaScript assigns values to variables.Primitives:
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I Have Zero Regrets Moving from Google Analytics to Plausible
After years of relying on Google Analytics, I've found an alternative that values what I do: performance, privacy, and data ownership.
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Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page
css-tricks.comA post on CSS Tricks exploring why HTTP requests sent during page navigation are at risk of abandonment, as well as options available to prevent it from happening.
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Programmatically Create a Static Page in WordPress
It’s surprisingly a big pain to create a route and render a static template in WordPress without messing with the database. For example, let’s say
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