Dec 5, 2022Member-onlyTwitter Isn’t Dying—No Matter How Much You Want It ToWhy Elon Musk will make Twitter more powerful than ever. — Every tech blogger with a few minutes and an opinion to spare seems to be on the warpath writing articles against Twitter. You’ve see it all over Medium and the tech press. “Twitter is losing major celebrities!”, or “Twitter is imploding!” or “Twitter is going to crash!”, …Twitter5 min readTwitter5 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Sep 2, 2022Member-onlyBuild Your Own JavaScript Ninja Game In MinutesHow to Easily Create a Canvas-based HTML Game in JavaScript From Scratch — Would you spend 4 hours of your life watching some guy write a JavaScript game while you watch? I did. And it was some of the best 4 hours of my life, professionally speaking. Learn JavaScript By Watching in Real-time Several months ago I ran across a YouTube video with a creator who’d written a side-scrolling…Java Script6 min readJava Script6 min read
Apr 30, 2022Member-onlyWhy I Bought 10 Million Of This Moronic CryptoIf You’re Going to Gamble on Crypto, Go Big, Spending Only A Little — Let’s face it, few if any of us can afford to buy even 1 Bitcoin these days. But there was a time when Bitcoins were valued at less than a penny and they were the laughing stock of the techno and financial communities. No one’s laughing anymore, or course, but…Technology5 min readTechnology5 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Apr 6, 2022Member-only12 Programmer Memes We All NeedSometimes A Picture and a Salty Quip Says It All — I love memes. Technology memes are the best. So I’ve collected a handful for your reading enjoyment. Take a 5-minute break and feel free to share them with your friends and co-workers. Code Quality This meme has been around for a long time, but it’s always fun to revisit it because, well…Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Mar 21, 2022Member-onlyAdd A WordPress-Style Update Utility To Any ApplicationUpdate Your End-user Application In One Click Using JavaScript, PHP, Composer, and GitHub — Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just push code to GitHub and automagically update millions of your application installs? Your users get notified that a new plugin, module, or application update is available to download and install—all with the click of their mouse! Now you can add self-updating elegance…Java Script7 min readJava Script7 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Mar 7, 2022Member-onlyHow to Be a Goddamned UI Rock StarUse this JavaScript library to easily, elegantly animate basic DOM changes. — Long before I was a software engineer at Disney, I was writing code that made basic changes to the DOM a much more elegant and programmer-friendly process. Even at Disney’s studios, you’d run into engineers who treated the UI like it was the bastard child of programming. Showing or hiding…Java Script7 min readJava Script7 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Mar 2, 2022Member-onlyHow I Made $10,000 in 6 Months on Medium10 Expert Tips About Delivering Content To Make You Successful — You’ll usually find me writing JavaScript or other technology articles here on Medium. But today I’m branching out into more of the business success genre. …Java Script12 min readJava Script12 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Feb 8, 2022Member-onlyStop Doing Bad UI ValidationHow To Validate User Experiences in JavaScript the Right Way — Back in 2011, I was working for Disney building UI for their Next Generation Experiences. We had 150 local developers plus a massive off-shore team all working together to build some exceptionally beautiful UI. The problem we encountered then with our forms was the same issue all of us have…Programming7 min readProgramming7 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Jan 10, 2022Member-onlyJavaScript Will Supplant Every Programming Language There IsJavaScript — one ring to rule them all! — Programming computers for the past 40 years teaches you a few things about technology; not the least of which is how technology comes in and is eventually replaced by something newer and better. …Java Script8 min readJava Script8 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Dec 16, 2021Member-onlyjQuery Will Still Be Around Long After Angular Is DeadWhy this mature JavaScript library is still more popular than ever! — On the ever-changing landscape of JavaScript libraries, frameworks, and other UI widgets, nothing stirs more controversy among developers than jQuery. It’s become nothing short of a religious inquisition among a handful of zealots within the technology community. …Java Script8 min readJava Script8 min read
