Jerod Santo articles - 20 total
What do you consider your greatest developer strength? Weakness?
On JS Party #78 we talked all about developer strengths and weaknesses (and even shared our own). Tha...
There's only one way to validate an email address
Here's some hard-earned experience on how to validate an email address. If you listened to JS Party #39, then you already know this. If you think I'm about to hand the best regex you've ever seen...
Is JavaScript the "CO2" of the web?
KBall, Divya, and Nick get together with Chris Ferdinandi to talk about vanilla JavaScript, best resources for learning, and our favorite vanilla JavaScript tips, tricks and APIs.
8 great reads for aspiring JavaScript devs 📚
JS Party #73 finished with an excellent segment all about recommended reading for new and aspiring JavaScript developers. Here's the rundown!
Stop limiting your open source library’s potential
When you hard-attach your library to a specific technology or framework, you limit its potential impact. By thinking ahead and putting in _a little_ more effort, your library could benefit orders of magnitudes more people.
Chris Coyier on The Great Divide
Chris Coyier joins Suz Hinton and Jerod Santo on JS Party to continue the discussion on The Great Divide in front-end-land
There are plenty of good reasons to do open source for free
If you open source your work to (speculatively) make lots of money... you're doing it wrong. There are much easier means to that end. But there are plenty of good reasons to do open source for free. Here's three of them.
GitHub Actions is the next big thing
A must-listen episode of The Changelog for anyone who uses GitHub to get stuff done
3 ways to retain your dev flow between sessions 💪
There are times when we absolutely must leave our development context behind and pick it back up later.
Graph databases 101
Manish R Jain masterfully explains graph databases so we can all grok them.
Drupal is a pretty big deal 🎙
Angie Byron, a core contributor and staple of the Drupal community, joins The Changelog to tell us all about the massively popular "framlication".
Make an open source maintainer's day with this one weird trick
Little bits of appreciation can make _big_ differences in maintainers' lives. Here's one way you can show appreciation that should take less than five minutes out of your day and just might make someone else's. 🙌
A call for kindness in open source
Brett Cannon joins The Changelog podcast to discuss setting expectations for open source participation.
Why we chose Turbolinks instead of building an SPA
We actively chose Turbolinks, installed it, and integrated it in to our application. I think that makes us pretty unique.
🎧 Fantastic bugs and how to squash them
Not those pesky things you're scared to squash because they might suddenly jump on you — this is all about JavaScript bugs
Get your #Hacktoberfest shirt without writing a lick of code
We have two repos where your contribution is functionally equivalent to hitting the Hacktoberfest Easy Button
How I beat RSI before it beat me
I’m putting this out there in hopes that somebody with similar symptoms will find some relief. I’m thankful that Greg documented his situation and a fix, and I hope to point others to it if possible.
Tips for a successful switch to a standing desk
I've been standing while I work for two years now, but the transition wasn't easy. Here are some tips on how to transition successfully.
Trailing conditionals considered harmful unless used sparingly
Think twice before slinging around trailing conditionals. They put the cart before the horse and in extreme cases they cause the reader to miss the horse altogether.
A new podcast making Artificial Intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone
I'm excited to share out new podcast with this awesome community!