Musings and scribbles

What’s in a name? Jul 5, 2020
Clean Code in JavaScript Feb 9, 2020
Hobbyist to Engineer Feb 1, 2019
Teaching the web platform: theories and observations Mar 21, 2016
Good Interview Vibes Mar 14, 2016
The User; The Programmer; Aug 17, 2015
Email aliasing in Google Apps Apr 7, 2015
Fuzzy Scoring Regex Mayhem Mar 7, 2015
Perpetual Obsolescence, Candy & Grit Jan 30, 2015
Software industry myths Apr 6, 2014
Montaigne, on software Jan 4, 2014
What is React? Dec 31, 2013
The Value of Testing Dec 16, 2013
A thousand listeners… Nov 20, 2013
There is no directive Aug 18, 2013
Straight-up interpolation Aug 12, 2013
Semantic HTML is dying Aug 4, 2013
“Free Culture” Resources Aug 1, 2013
Abstracting The Web Worker: Operative Jul 18, 2013
Cargo-culting in JavaScript May 25, 2013
Sonic & The State Of Spinners Mar 31, 2013
How to deal with bad code Mar 23, 2013
Building SIML: A new markup language Mar 17, 2013
Permissive user input validation Jan 27, 2013
Who maintains your JS? Jan 5, 2013
JS adolescence Nov 13, 2012
Character saving trickery and bitwise revelations Aug 30, 2012
What JS devs seem to care about Aug 27, 2012
IIFE argument madness Jul 6, 2012
Replacing text in the DOM… solved? Jul 3, 2012
HTML7 arrives! Jun 8, 2012
Move that parenthesis! May 6, 2012
Zerg rush in JavaScript Apr 27, 2012
The insecurity of being wrong Apr 9, 2012
jQuery EventEmitter Apr 7, 2012
The pursuit of free knowledge Mar 21, 2012
Programming exchange feedback Mar 11, 2012
Programming skill exchange (survey) Mar 4, 2012
Ordering variable declarations Mar 1, 2012
Intellectual property Jan 22, 2012
Using proxies to mimic existential-operator behaviour Jan 1, 2012
Making APIs is hard Dec 22, 2011
Beware of passion voids Nov 22, 2011
Rampant Callback Syndrome Nov 20, 2011
JSAPI.info Nov 1, 2011
Terse JavaScript 101 – part 2 Oct 29, 2011
Truthy & Falsey Oct 19, 2011
Terse JavaScript 101 – part 1 Oct 18, 2011
The Absolute Silence Oct 16, 2011
Is negativity a problem? Oct 13, 2011
GiveCampUK 2011 Oct 1, 2011
Subclassing jQuery Sep 11, 2011
JavaScript and DOM API fuss Aug 28, 2011
Sonic – looping loaders Aug 26, 2011
Amazon Kindle: review Aug 12, 2011
`.match()` trick Jul 10, 2011
JavaScript interview questions Jun 7, 2011
Farewell to Isara, Nong Khai and Thailand Apr 27, 2011
It was all fiction… Apr 17, 2011
BUJS #1 – getParameterByName Mar 1, 2011
Isara’s new management system Feb 20, 2011
Isara + CodeIgniter = ? Jan 3, 2011
What am I doing? Dec 8, 2010
Detect IE in JS using conditional comments Aug 20, 2010
Dear .NET Jul 26, 2010
Replacing text in the DOM… it’s not that simple! Jul 7, 2010
Creating fairies Jun 1, 2010
Questioning non UI events Apr 29, 2010
Another JavaScript quiz Apr 27, 2010
Library foundation code Apr 26, 2010
76 bytes for faster jQuery Mar 31, 2010
Labelled blocks, useful? Mar 23, 2010
Sorting elements with jQuery Mar 19, 2010
jQuery: Novice to Ninja Feb 26, 2010
Double bitwise NOT (~~) Feb 15, 2010
Under jQuery’s bonnet Jan 31, 2010
jQuery Lint Jan 18, 2010
Cross-domain requests with jQuery Jan 12, 2010
jQuery code smells Jan 5, 2010
Macros in jQuery Dec 26, 2009
Gapless wall of images Dec 20, 2009
Easing in jQuery 1.4a2 Dec 19, 2009
Simple pulse plugin for jQuery Dec 16, 2009
Who won a jQuery cookbook!? Dec 11, 2009
The jQuery Cookbook Dec 8, 2009
Anti-patterns in the making Dec 4, 2009
Introducing “SiteTraverser” Dec 2, 2009
Getting fancy with easing Nov 20, 2009
JavaScript is the icing! Nov 16, 2009
Partial loop “unrolling” Nov 13, 2009
Achieve jQuery enlightenment Oct 31, 2009
Pong, and what it taught me Oct 29, 2009
JSON is not the same as JSON Oct 17, 2009
JavaScript comment removal – revisited Sep 11, 2009
jQuery plugins are broken! Sep 10, 2009
Contextual SCRIPT tags Aug 31, 2009
Satisfy that selector! Aug 20, 2009
Express yourself! Aug 19, 2009
JavaScript: Bad Practices Aug 17, 2009
Third party JavaScript – an improvement Aug 11, 2009
Introducing “mini” Aug 9, 2009
Zakas’ JavaScript performance tips Aug 8, 2009
jQuery.fn.map enhancement Aug 7, 2009
Fun with jQuery’s “animate()” Jul 26, 2009
Avoiding DOM flickering Jul 23, 2009
Trying to learn Java Jul 22, 2009
Recursive “pretty date” Jul 19, 2009
Closures in JavaScript Jul 16, 2009
String.prototype.extract Jul 14, 2009
Take a stand against IE! Jul 12, 2009
Special scroll events for jQuery Jul 10, 2009
How to avoid switch-case syndrome Jul 4, 2009
Retaining a reference, the simple way Jun 27, 2009
“wordwrap” for JavaScript Jun 26, 2009
Monitoring DOM properties Jun 23, 2009
Zoomer component for sale! Jun 17, 2009
Metadata within HTML comments Jun 15, 2009
It’s just an API Jun 9, 2009
Best practices & JSLint Jun 7, 2009
“prettyPrint” for JavaScript Jun 5, 2009
Fastest way to build an HTML string May 29, 2009
Table rows as clickable anchors May 25, 2009
Removing comments in JavaScript May 24, 2009
Custom JavaScript with “parseScripts” May 21, 2009
jQuery plugin detector May 17, 2009
I’m on Github! May 16, 2009
“Grayscaling” in non-IE browsers May 11, 2009
Konami Craziness May 9, 2009
Function’less event handlers in jQuery May 6, 2009
Asynchronous innerHTML Apr 25, 2009
A better data selector for jQuery Apr 23, 2009
Deep copying of Objects and Arrays Apr 22, 2009
Really easy speed testing Apr 19, 2009
Fixing “:focus” in Internet Explorer Apr 16, 2009
Introducing: JSHTML Apr 14, 2009
“Prototypal chainability” Apr 13, 2009
Find and replace text with JavaScript Apr 5, 2009
Readability, a noble cause Apr 1, 2009
‘Events’ interface for jQuery Mar 31, 2009
Learning jQuery 1.3, the book Mar 30, 2009
Regular Expressions in JavaScript, part 2 Mar 23, 2009
Using YQL with JSONP Mar 21, 2009
Don’t use “!important” Mar 20, 2009
Screencast #2 – Creating the colour-fader Mar 19, 2009
New code-view feature Mar 14, 2009
A framework-agnostic model Mar 11, 2009
Preventing an unintended exit Mar 10, 2009
Looping in JavaScript Mar 3, 2009
‘tweetFromFile’ PHP Class Mar 2, 2009
Fun with Getters & Setters Mar 1, 2009
Usability & Animation Feb 26, 2009
Element data/storage Feb 21, 2009
Parsing URLs with the DOM! Feb 19, 2009
Things you may not know about jQuery Feb 19, 2009
Random & Unique! Feb 14, 2009
‘animateToSelector’ jQuery plugin Feb 10, 2009
JavaScript Abstractions Feb 8, 2009
Playing with Ubiquity Feb 7, 2009
Shuffling the DOM Feb 4, 2009
Clear a field on focus Feb 3, 2009
Why create a jQuery plugin? Feb 2, 2009
Getting the real time in JavaScript Jan 29, 2009
Regex Selector for jQuery Jan 28, 2009
New jQuery plugin: ‘imgPreview’ Jan 26, 2009
Getting a fully qualified URL Jan 21, 2009
Clickjacking Twitter Jan 20, 2009
Word Jumbling ‘Experiment’ Jan 16, 2009
jQuery ‘delay’ plugin Jan 13, 2009
Checking types in JavaScript Jan 12, 2009
Screencast #1 – Event Delegation in jQuery Jan 12, 2009
Guilty Until Proven Innocent Jan 10, 2009
Debug jQuery events with ‘listHandlers()’ Jan 8, 2009
Graceful degradation still matters! Jan 8, 2009
Preloading images from a directory Jan 7, 2009
Get document height (cross-browser) Jan 6, 2009
The perfect document overlay Jan 5, 2009
Regular Expressions in JavaScript Jan 4, 2009
Highlighting text with JavaScript Jan 3, 2009
2009 predictions Jan 2, 2009
Tacky page fading ‘trick’ Dec 31, 2008
Test for an external link Dec 30, 2008
Debugging with $.log() or log() Dec 30, 2008
Passing a function to jQuery’s CSS() method Dec 30, 2008
jQuery: $(elem).with(); Dec 30, 2008
New jQuery plugin: “Fly Off Page” Dec 27, 2008
Create a TinyURL with JSONP Dec 24, 2008
Cross-domain requests with JSONP? Safe? Dec 24, 2008
A lack of progression? Dec 17, 2008
Extending jQuery’s selector capabilities Dec 11, 2008
Bookmarklet: ‘Let me Google that for you’ Dec 1, 2008
New template: PIXELLE Nov 27, 2008
iNettuts with Cookies! Nov 20, 2008
What I’ve been reading Nov 19, 2008
Random word generator Nov 17, 2008
Little Enhancements Nov 6, 2008
Some jQuery Shortcuts Oct 31, 2008
Solving Twitter’s URL posting issue Oct 25, 2008
JavaScript libraries vs. Usability Oct 18, 2008
Reflection on poverty Oct 14, 2008
My first “real” job Oct 5, 2008