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  • Readable code tips: Don’t inline everything!

    2024-03-30

    There is a balance to be found between "inlining" multiple expressions, and using temporary variables. You may also learn about short-circuit evaluation here!

  • Readable code tips: Extract complex conditions

    2024-03-24

    Refactoring complex conditions to make them more readable and easier to work with.

  • Trusting code

    2024-03-24

    You kinda have a relationship with code from your projects. You probably have feelings about it. As I've been thinking about code style, I've also been thinking about how it's important to build up trust in a code base.

  • Readable code tips: Introduction

    2024-03-09

    Poor code readability slows us down. So I'm going to post some of my code-readability tips! This is an introduction with the ideas behind it and all the caveats.

  • npm-free LiveReload(ish): Simple scripts for asset watching and auto-reload in the browser

    2024-03-02

    A super simple asset-watching script and "LiveReload" functionality. All fitting with my values. Let's see what it looks like!

  • Scraping Birthdays from Facebook

    2024-01-29

    I used some hacky JavaScript to scrape my friends birthdays from Facebook so that I can put them in my actual calendar.

  • Weekend Project: Simple notes app

    2024-01-14

    I can't use any of my favourite note-taking apps at work. But I can use a web browser and I can write JavaScript. The logical conclusion is, of course, that I should build my own!

  • I made a(nother) static site generator

    2023-12-31

    This time it's a static-file-driven, mobile-app-like blog. And the tooling I made should be usable on any simple WordPress blog! But... WHY???

  • I’m using AI

    2023-11-26

    This AI tech is amazing. And works so well when aiding humans rather than replacing them. But gosh I can see how it breaks the web.

  • FREE WEBSITES!! How I make small, side-project websites for free (pretty much)

    2023-08-19

    I now have a process that gets me small, fast, side-project websites for virtually zero cost. Let's see how it works...

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