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JavaScript Wake Lock API
An enjoyable web apps rely on engineers implementing the APIs that cover all of the small things. Those small things sometimes improve performance, usability, accessibility, and the app's relationship with its host system. The Wake Lock API is the latter -- an API...
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How to Earn Interest on Bitcoin
When I was young I remember looking at my bank book and seeing nice interest payments for cash I had in the bank. Fast forward to today and banks are giving essentially nothing for interest -- your money just sits there collecting dust. In an ideal...
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navigator.clipboard API
Interacting with a user's host clipboard is something web developers have wanted for both good and evil purposes. On the good side, it's nice to allow users to easily copy text like wallet addresses or branch names; for evil, copying malicious text that the user...
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Goals For 2021
Every year I write a blog post about my goals for the year but I won't pretend this year's post is the same. I mean how the hell do I create realistic goals knowing what 2020 was and what 2021 inherits?! Pandemic, drastic political...
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Open a Browser Tab with DevTools Open by Default
Using command line flags is a great way to subtly improve productivity. Whether saving yourself keystrokes or enabling specific features, it's very much worth knowing the application flags available to you.To launch a new tab with DevTools in Chrome, you can use the
--auto-open-devtools-for-tabscommand...-
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Return a Default Value with Promises Using catch
Last week I tweeted all of you looking for your best JavaScript Array and Promise tricks, and as always, it didn't disappoint -- I learned quite a bit!Today's JavaScript Promise trick is brought to you by Claudio Semeraro: how to use
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Break a forEach Loop with JavaScript
I've written a number of blog posts about JavaScript tricks: Promise tricks, type conversion tricks, spread tricks, and a host of other JavaScript tricks. I recently ran into another JavaScript trick that blew my mind: how to break a
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Sharpen Your JavaScript Skills with Pluralsight
JavaScript recently turned 25 years old, and while it started by dominating over the client side world, this beautiful programming language is well on its way to taking over the server side. JavaScript isn't just thriving -- it's evolving with new syntax features, patterns, frameworks...
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React.isValidElement
Knowing what input type you've received is hugely important in JavaScript, which is a big reason for Flow and TypeScript's rise. One such case where it's useful to know what an object represents is if the input is a string or a React element.To detect...
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2020 Year in Review
Looking back on an entire year of one's professional life is difficult, but when you consider everything that 2020 threw at us, where the hell do you even start? Forget just surviving the professional aspect of 2020, we all deserve a medal, both literally and figuratively...
