There are a number of ways to preload an image on demand with JavaScript — each with their own strengths & drawbacks. Let's explore them.

DNS resolution is cheap, but it ain't free. In scenarios when it counts, the `dns-prefetch` resource hint could give you a nice, slight edge in the front-end performance game.

After discovering and being unsure of its value, I just realized how useful `document.currentScript` can be in exposing configuration properties to `<script>` elements (and other things too).

I took a stab at getting more familiar with iterators, iterables, and generators. I think I'm starting to like the ergonomics.

There's a subset of request headers that can't be modified by a spec-compliant user agent. Let's explore why they're useful for determining how and for what purpose a request was triggered.

TypeScript's string literal types are a lot more useful than I originally thought.

Sometimes, typical memoization function won't cut it when there are so many changing variables in play between ticks of the event loop. Let's explore how we might fine-tune it.

Triggering smooth, reliable CSS transitions with JavaScript can be weirdly more complicated than you expect. We're gonna explore it more.

Content Security Policies, even for simple, content-focused sites, offer good protection against rare but real vulnerabilities out there. You might as well just get one.

We'll take out your trash & recycling bins for you every week, so you don't have to keep forgetting about it!

A blog comment service and Disqus alternative that won't leave you feeling like you missed a shower.

Get a Chrome extension reviewed a smidge more quickly by more carefully executing its client-side scripts only when they're needed.

Walking through how I used Puppeteer to programmatically collect every image loaded when a page is viewed in the browser.

Even though it won't run <script> tags, React's dangerouslySetInnerHTML still allows inline event handlers to execute. Here's how you might neutralize that threat.

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been holding my breath for a long time and I'm not sure there will be any air to breathe when I finally let go. It’d be nice to know what God is doing in those moments rathe...

Why I've committed to never allowing AI to articulate an idea on my behalf.

We're getting real familiar with seeing LLMs stream chunks of text to a page. Here's a simple demonstration of how you'd mimic the effect with TypeIt.

It is pathetic how often I overestimate the control I have over my circumstances, and how protective I am of the little I do have. A couple passages have been stirring this up. First, from Exodus. The...

Default parameter values have been in JavaScript for a while. But I just found out you can use sibling parameters as the default values themselves.

I’ve either never seen this verse or I’m reading it with different eyes: “Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.” - Job‬ ‭13‬: ‭15‬ ‭ESV‬‬What a weird combination...

I have not been reading Psalm 46: 10 correctly for a long time (probably because I’ve always read it in isolation). “Be still, and know that I am God.”I’ve always taken “stillness” to strictly be a sy...

The animated GIF has become a key piece of today’s meme culture, despite being around decades prior. But there are serious technical advantages to

Native support for decorators is inevitable! It simplifies augmenting class methods, which can help with things like logging, memoization, debouncing, and dependency injection.

A dependency injection framework built on native decorators. - alexmacarthur/power-plant

Services like S3 and R2 can be invaluable when self-hosting Plausible Analytics. Let's walk through what it looks like to use them for automated backups a simple cron job.

Thinking through some of the trade-offs and benefits in using client-side JavaScript to generate structured data.

The REST API allows you to fetch comments as a paginated JSON list.