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    Welcome to the New LimeWire:  AI Media Generation

    LimeWire was a staple of my youth. LimeWire was software that allowed users to share any type of file during the revolutionary days of file sharing. Fast forward to today and LimeWire is back, again as revolutionary software, but this time in the...

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    Unveiling 15+ Essential Tools & Resources for Web Designers and Agencies in 2023

    You’ve visited countless websites, and now you’re designing your own. Stop and think for a minute about what you’ve liked and didn’t like about some of those you visited. Was it the front page, the layout in general, or the functionalities that either met with your...

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    Sum an Array of Numbers with JavaScript

    It's rare that I'm disappointed by the JavaScript language not having a function that I need. One such case was summing an array of numbers -- I was expecting Math.sum or a likewise, baked in API. Fear not -- summing an array of numbers...

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    JavaScript waitFor Polling

    As more of the JavaScript developers write becomes asynchronous, it's only natural to need to wait for conditions to be met. This is especially true in a world with asynchronous testing of conditions which don't provide an explicit await. I've written about waitForever, waitForTime...

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    queryLocalFonts

    One of the larger downloads when requesting a webpage are custom fonts. There are many great techniques for lazy loading fonts to improve performance for those on poor connections. By getting insight into what fonts the user has available, we can avoid loading custom fonts.

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    Use XHR/fetch Breakpoints!

    Web debugging tools are so incredibly excellent these days. I remember the days where they didn't exist and debugging was a total nightmare, even for the simplest of problems. A while back I introduced many of you to Logpoints, a way to output...

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    URL.canParse

    Parsing of URLs on the client side has been a common practice for two decades. The early days included using illegible regular expressions but the JavaScript specification eventually evolved into a new URL method of parsing URLs. While URL is incredibly useful when a valid URL...

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    JavaScript closest

    When it comes to finding relationships between elements, we traditionally think of a top-down approach. We can thank CSS and querySelector/querySelectorAll for that relationship in selectors. What if we want to find an element's parent based on selector?To look up the element tree and find...

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    ChatGPT via WYSIWYG

    Artificial intelligence applications have hit like a massive wave over this past year, with ChatGPT being the most prominent. ChatGPT can take any written command and suggest content to match. What better than having the power of AI content creation than doing so within your own...

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    JavaScript: Reverse Arrays

    Manipulating data is core to any programming language. JavaScript is no exception, especially as JSON has token over as a prime data delivery format. One such data manipulation is reversing arrays. You may want to reverse an array to show most recent transactions, or...