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Facebook Is a Threat to Governments Not Crypto
20.6.2019
The moment Facebook released the whitepaper for its planned Libra coin, social media was flooded with claims about Zuckerberg’s new drive to take over the cryptocurrency market, with some even calling it a Bitcoin killer. However, looking at the actual details of the plan, it has little to...
Prioritizing
27.5.2019
You're faced with a lot of decisions in everyday work. There are multiple tasks calling for your focus, and you can burn daylight or even burn out trying to decide what comes first. There's a phenomenon called decision fatigue. There have been many studies that you can make poor choices when you're...
Clever code
17.4.2019
This week, Chris Ferdinandi examined a clever JavaScript snippet, one that's written creatively with new syntax features, but is perhaps less readable and performant. It's a quick read, but his callout of our industry's fixation on cleverness is worth... calling out:
...we’ve become obsessed as...
JavaScript Glossary: String startsWith()
27.3.2019
Basics
The startsWith method takes a string parameter and checks if the calling string starts with the value provided. It returns a Boolean value, true
JavaScript Glossary: String toLowerCase()
26.3.2019
Basics
The toLowerCase() String method converts a string object to lower case. The return value of the method is the value of the calling string in lower case
JavaScript Glossary: String trim()
25.3.2019
Basics
This method removes whitespaces from the start and end of the calling string. It removes spaces, tabs, no break spaces etc. It returns a new string stripped of whitespaces from both
JavaScript Glossary: String indexOf()
25.3.2019
Basics
This method checks for the first appearance of a provided string argument within the calling string and returns the index. It returns -1 if the string argument can’t be
JavaScript Glossary: String includes()
19.3.2019
Basics
The includes method checks a provided string against the calling String object, it returns true if the calling String object contains the provided string a
JavaScript Glossary: String concat()
17.2.2019
Basics
This method is used to join the calling string and the provided string arguments. It returns a new String object containing the calling string and the provided arguments . If no arg
The Magic of React-Based Multi-Step Forms
15.2.2019
One way to deal with long, complex forms is to break them up into multiple steps. You know, answer one set of questions, move on to another, then maybe another, and so on and so forth. We often refer to these as multi-step forms (for obvious reasons), but others also take to calling it a “wizard”...
JavaScript Glossary: Array .toString() Method
8.2.2019
Basics
This method returns a String representation of the elements withing the calling array. This method is somewhat similar to the join() method. It returns a s
Too Much Accessibility
3.12.2018
I like to blog little veins of thought as I see them. We recently linked to an article by Facundo Corradini calling out a tweet of ours where we used an <em> where we probably should have used an <i>.
Bruce Lawson checks if screen readers are the victims of these semantic...