JavaScript Tutorials
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Abusing console.log to Remove Debug Code
One of the big efforts of this blog is to make it as fast and compact as possible. I shave bytes and do everything I can to make the site as lightning fast as possible. In looking at my site's main JavaScript file...
Diving Deeper With ES6 Generators
If you're still unfamiliar with ES6 generators, first go read and play around with the code in "Part 1: The Basics Of ES6 Generators". Once you think you've got the basics down, now we can dive into some of the deeper details. Error Handling One of the...
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Array: Insert an Item at a Specific Index with JavaScript
There are many tasks related to arrays that sound quite simple but (1) aren't and (2) aren't required of a developer very often. I was encountered with one such task recently: inserting an item into an existing array at a specific index. Sounds...
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From Webcam to Animated GIF: the Secret Behind chat.meatspac.es!
My team mate Edna Piranha is not only an awesome hacker; she's also a fantastic philosopher! Communication and online interactions is a subject that has kept her mind busy for a long time, and it has also resulted in a bunch of interesting experimental projects...
The Basics Of ES6 Generators
One of the most exciting new features coming in JavaScript ES6 is a new breed of function, called a generator. The name is a little strange, but the behavior may seem a lot stranger at first glance. This article aims to explain the basics of how...
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How I Stopped WordPress Comment Spam
I love almost every part of being a tech blogger: learning, preaching, bantering, researching. The one part about blogging that I absolutely loathe: dealing with SPAM comments. For the past two years, my blog has registered 8,000+ SPAM comments per day. PER DAY. Bloating my database...
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Parallax Sound Waves Animating on Scroll
Scrolling animations are fun. They are fun to create and fun to use. If you are tired of bootstrapping you might find playing with scrolling animations as a nice juicy refreshment in your dry front-end development career. Let's have a look how to create animating...
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Prevent Widows with PHP and JavaScript
One of the small touches you can add to your website is preventing "widows" in your
H1-H6tags. For those who aren't aware, a widow (in terms of text and headings) means only one word of a title wraps to the next line -- a bit...
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JavaScript Once Function
Every so often you have a function which you only want to run once. Oftentimes these functions are in the form of event listeners which may be difficult to manage. Of course if they were easy to manage, you'd just remove the listeners but that's a perfect...
asynquence: More Than Just Promises (Part 2)
asynquence Is Promises As we saw in part 1, asynquence is a wrapper abstraction on top of promises, as sequences. A single-step sequence approximates a promise, though they're not identically compatible. However, that's no big deal, since asynquence can both consume and vend standard promises/thenables...
