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HellllooooOOO!

I’m so happy to be in your inbox today! It is this newsletter’s 5th year anniversary!! It’s kind of mind-blowing to me that it’s been this long, and I’m so grateful for all of you here. Let’s keep it going (also there are free things below, keep scrolling)!

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Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week. I personally had a busy one. I’m working with Sara Vieira on a tech event to benefit Ukraine, more news on that coming soon!

Before we continue: Next week is this newsletter’s FIVE year anniversary! We’ll have a ton of giveaways and goodies for everyone here. If you wouldn’t mind sharing this with a friend or two, I’d really appreciate it!

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Hellloooo!

I hope you’ve been doing well. I’ve been really happy to see folks I care about get some new jobs and set up in better situations this week! Anyway, onwards!

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Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week. Here in Chicago it’s St. Patrick’s Day season, and they’ve dyed the river green and there’s some great deals on corned beef. Anyway, let’s surf.

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Hey friends,

I’m so grateful to be in your inbox today! I absolutely loved seeing the replies last week from folks donating to support the organizations working in Ukraine and Texas. Thank you for being great. Onwards!

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Hi everyone,

Gosh, this week has been difficult. I hope you’ve stayed safe and in a good place! Let’s get the next one started.

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Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I was on vacation with my sister and friends myself and am ready to get back to it. Onwards!

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Hellllooo!

Happy Superb Owl day! I hope you’ve had a great week so far. I’m taking some PTO this next week with my sister and friends, which I’m really excited about. Anyway, let’s surf!

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Hey friends!

I hope your week was a good one! We had a bunch of snow here in Chicago, but it’s slowly starting to warm up a bit. Let’s get going!

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Hyellloooo!

Can you believe it’s the end of January already? I can’t. Let’s end on a high note!

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Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I worked on some of my side projects this week and did a bunch of house cleaning. Let’s boogie.

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Helloooooo!

I hope your week was a solid one! Mine was packed with “second week of work” goodies. Onwards!

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Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I had my first week of work at a new job at Remote, which was exciting. I’ll tell you more in a bit!

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Wooooo it’s 2022!

I hope your end to the year was a good one. It’s been a rough time in the pandemic, but I’m still optimistic that this’ll be a better year than the last!

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Happy New Year friends!

Gosh, this year was both the longest and the shortest year ever. Is time real? Who knows. Let’s go out with a bang!

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Heyo friendos!

It’s good to be back in your inbox! As we approach the holidays in the next few weeks, I hope you can spend time with folks you care about, eat good food, and take a break.

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Helllloooo friends!

I hope you had a great week. Mine was good as I mostly caught up on chores and… played way too much Fortnite. Let’s go!

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Hey friends!

I hope your week was grand. Mine was a bittersweet one, as it was my last week at Netlify! I’m taking some time off before my next thing. Whew!

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Hello!

I hope your week was a good one! I got to see some family and ate a whole lot for Thanksgiving. Let’s boogie.

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Hey friends!

Happy Thanksgiving week to the Americans in here, and no matter where you’re from, I’m grateful for you! When the news is rough and the world is frustrating, it’s important to remember to be thankful for the good parts.

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Ayyy wazzaaaap!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was full, but I’m taking some time off and am glad to have gotten a bunch done. Onwards!

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Hello friends!

It’s November! I hope your week was a good one. I got my COVID booster shot and I feel the 5G flowing through me.

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Happy Halloween!

I hope you all have some fun and spooky nights as we round out October. Time is flying by, I tell ya!

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I started exercising again for the first time since the pandemic started and… can’t say I’m a fan yet. Anyway, let’s go!

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What’s New in Gatsby 4
DOOM Rendered via Checkboxes
Elecrue
Candy Crush in React

Welcome back!

I hope your week was a good one. Mine was pretty swamped, but I had a great time speaking at a few events and podcasts. Onwards!

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The Autofill Dark Pattern
Jamstack Developers’ Favorite Frameworks of 2021
Deprecation of jQuery Mobile
Myths about Web Accessibility

Helllooo friends!

I hope your week was a good one! Mine was fun and chaotic at Jamstack Conf (which I’ll talk more about later on). Let’s go!

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Drawing in CSS - Sci-Fi Art: A Vacuum From Space
How I Make CSS Art
Building a Tennis Trivia App With Next.js and Netlify
How to build an inline edit component in React
Conditional Border Radius In CSS

Hey friends!

Can you believe it’s October already? I can’t. So spooky. Onwards!

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How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment
ct.css – Let’s take a look inside your <head>
Creating the Perfect Commit in Git
What’s new in React 18?

Hellllllllooooo!

I hope your week was a good one! I got to see a friend get married this past weekend, which was a blast. Onwards!

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How SPA architectures affect Core Web Vitals
7 Tips & tricks to make your console.log() output stand out
The Future of CSS: Cascade Layers
Electron 15.0.0 released

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was so fun, I got to see my coworkers in person! Fun stuff happened in the internet this week too. Let’s go!

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kbar
Material-UI is now MUI!
Intro to D3.js
Orchestrating Complexity With Web Animations API

Hello hello!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was packed, and I’m particularly excited for this next one because I’m going to meet some of my coworkers for the first time this week.

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Hey friends!

Happy September! If you’ve got a long weekend this weekend, I hope you enjoy it. And if you don’t, well… enjoy it anyway! Let’s surf.

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On the <dl>
Accessibility from the Ground Up
Tree data structure in JavaScript
smartcrop.js: Content aware image cropping

Hello!

Very glad to be in your inbox today! I hope your week was a good one, and that you’re safe, happy, and healthy. Let’s check out what’s new around the internet!

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How to Use Promise.any()
React Webcam
Pushing Back Against Privacy Infringement On The Web
Static vs. Dynamic vs. Jamstack: Where’s The Line?

Hey friends!

What a week, what a week. Mine was full of podcast recordings, code, and meetings. Let’s goooo!

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Building a desktop application using Electron and Create React App
Star Rating: An SVG Solution
wavesurfer.js
LÖVR: An open source framework for rapidly building 3D experiences

Helllloooo!

I hope your week was a good one. I admit mine was pretty dang busy! The weather in Chicago has been beautiful lately at least. Anyway, let’s boogie.

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MIDIVal library
Vue 3.2 Released!
A Visual Guide to React Rendering - Props
Stay alert

Hello friends!

I hope you had a great week! I took some time off work to get unpacked in my new digs. Now let’s unpack… the iiiiinternet!

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JavaScript Kid Pix
How MDN’s autocomplete search works
Building an Automated Screenshot Service on Netlify in ~140 Lines of Code
Slinkity

Hellloooo!

Can you believe it’s August already? My brain is not ready for this. But alas, time goes on. Let’s look at what happened this week!

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What I Wish I Knew About CSS When Starting Out As A Frontender
NFC comes to the web
Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station
New in Git: switch and restore

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week. I am in the thick of moving, surrounded by boxes as I type, which is both stressful and really exciting! Onwards!

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Plate: Build an editor with React and Slate
Code Zelda in JavaScript with Kaboom.js!
Integrating Eleventy with GitHub Flat Data
How To Make Raspberry Pi Night Vision Security Camera

Wazzzaaaap!

I hope your week was a good one! I had a blast this weekend at Pokémon Go Fest and I’m riding that high through the week. Let’s go!

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ISR vs DPR: Big Words, Quick Explanation
HTM (Hyperscript Tagged Markup)
WebAssembly from Scratch: From FizzBuzz to Doom
LiveKit: Open source real-time communication

Hey friends!

Phew, what a week! I had a very very packed one full of meetings, podcast recordings, and prepping for moving. Let’s surf!

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Elementary Audio
When a Click is Not Just a Click
Breaking Down Bulky Builds With Netlify And Next.js
Creating a dynamic color converter with 11ty Serverless

Helllllooooo!

Happy 4th of July to the Americans out there, and happy “start of July” to everyone else! I hope you had a great week. I’m really glad to have a shorter one with the holiday, myself. Internet time!

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Browsers decode images differently
Code Generator for HTTP Requests
XO: JavaScript/TypeScript linter (ESLint wrapper) with great defaults
Saving data to Supabase and getting it back again

Hey friends!

I hope your week has been great. Mine was busy and full of playing with different frameworks that I don’t normally try. Let’s gooo!

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ES2021 Features List
Optical size, the hidden superpower of variable fonts
pica - high quality image resize in browser
lightGallery

Helllooo!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was fun; it was full of talks and experimenting with code. To the fathers and father-figures out there, I hope you had a wonderful Father’s Day, and for our Black friends reading, I hope you had a great Juneteenth! Let’s boogie.

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Select Star SQL
An Introduction to Shaders
How To Use The Vite Build Tool with React
Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage
MathJax 3.2.0: Beautiful Math Rendering in All Browsers

Hello friends!

I have had a WHIRLWIND of a week, let me tell ya! I hope yours has been a good one too. Let’s dig around cyberspace, shall we?

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Rust from a JavaScript perspective
Vue v3.1.0 Pluto
Astro: A New Architecture for the Modern Web
Flex Box Adventure

Hey friends!

I hope your week was great! I enjoyed having a shorter work week with Memorial Day rolling in, and did a bunch of house work as well. Anyway, let’s surf!

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jsonmatic – transform a CSV into a JSON
How to Memoize with React.useMemo()
Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
RTL:WTF - Read the web like Right-to-Left readers do

Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mind was full of speaking and… playing video games. Onwards!

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Temp API
Deep Dive into Rust for Node.js Developers
React API evolution
Gute

Hey friends!

I hope your week was lovely! Mine was super busy at work (we released things!) and I ended it with spending some time with vaccinated family. Let’s boogie!

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Rust: Are we game yet?
2D Optics Demos in JavaScript
Embedding Google Forms in a Static Site
DOM Events

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I worked from Seattle this past week and visited vaccinated family and friends, and it was so nice. Anyway, surfin’ time.

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How to Parse and Annotate PDFs in Node
Eva.js (Interactive Game Engine)
Design for reading: tips for optimizing content for Reader modes and reading apps
JWT should not be your default for sessions

Helllloooo!

Happy Mother’s Day to the moms, step-moms, pseudo-moms, aspiring moms, and future moms on this list, and to each of yours. I hope y’all had a good week! Mine was productive, and I’m excited for the next one. Onwards!

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How To Use Vibration API in Your Website
MapSCII - The Whole World In Your Console
How to Create Actions for Selected Text With the Selection API
Why Video Chat is a Hard Technical Problem

Hey friends!

I hope your week was a good one! Mine was fun and full of playing video games and playing with my Polywork profile! Let’s gooo!

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You Can Label a JavaScript if Statement
Portable apps with Go and Next.js
Google sheets Using React TypeScript
How to safely open-source internal software - Some best practices

Hello friends!

I hope your week was great! I was on vacation with family and it was really nice to take some time off. Onwards!

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Node.js available now
Inkline: Vue.js UI/UX Library
How to make an ineffective 404 page
Best practices for cookie notices