It is standard practice now to design for both desktop and mobile. Your website likely has a substantial user base on both platforms, although it varies from service to service. You will want to provide at least a usable experience regardless of platform. In this article, you will learn how…

In Javascript, there is this wonderful property called innerText, which is rendering aware and will return all descendant's texts as you would expect in plain text. We don’t need to worry about the internal structure of an element. For example, if it has tags for bold text, spans, lists etc…

Showing test coverage and whether it is going up or down on a pull request can change whether or not coverage gets added by your team. Visualizing and giving a feedback signal when test coverage changes encourage adding more tests. In Gitlab, you can get the test coverage added like…

Maintaining a server yourself is a lot of work. Cloud services usually outperform cost and effort-wise unless you have poor luck and no safety controls in place. The cost of a cloud project I worked on recently, suddenly and without warning, increased by $40 a day. …

I found the contenteditable attribute a while back when I was trying to find a way to build a WYSIWYG. Simply put, adding the contenteditable attribute to any HTML element allows you to edit the content of that element. Within the limits of what the browser and the element support…

ObservableHQ is an online script notebook for javascript. With ObservableHQ, you can quickly run and rerun each line. Document or explain side-by-side and display outputs as they are generated. It’s like running Node inside Notion.

You have better things to do than write and maintain long documents that rarely get read. I have used strong words to share my dislike for documentation in the past, and I still feel the same way today. Yet here I am, asking you to write more. A whole lot…

When creating japapps.com, I wanted a minimal and easy way to generate HTML from a database of articles. I chose to start with HandlebarsJS. This worked well until recently. …

There is an easy an simple way to store JSON data without needing a full backend or server. Several times past weeks, I wanted this as I was building small tools and PoCs and today, I want to share what I found. My Googling came up short and I even…