I am Joshua R Jones...

JULY 12 - INTERNET-WIDE DAY OF ACTION TO SAVE NET NEUTRALITY

Please share this and get the word out. We have spoken out about this multiple times over the years, but they keep trying to lobby for control over our internet.

A majority of everything I deem important in my life is credited to the openness of the Internet and to limit that access to information is a huge step backwards. Please don’t let their third try at this be ignored and passed through without a fight.

A day without Javascript

The point being made here isn’t “javascript is bad”, I think it’s more “be responsible with javascript”, which I agree with and have seen more and more developers not put in the effort to have things gracefully degrade. (myself included)

The 100% Correct Coding Style Guide

Funny read but nails some solid points. I have my own set of opinions, but if there is a linter in place that keeps everything the same, I’m happy regardless.

Browserslist

Was thinking about this issue the last few weeks. Being able to have Babel only compile for what we actually need supported is huge for me.

Deletability

“Writing deletable code is writing good code.” I like this thought process.

DICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader?

Great video on a topic I’ve discussed with others a few dozen times.

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial

This is an amazingly put together and categorized tutorial for both newer and semi-experienced JS developers. Worth a peak.

GitHub Adds GraphQL API Support

Love it. I’ve wanted an excuse to really dive into GraphQL and GitHub has provided one.

Introducing Travel Mode for 1Password

This is cool, but still shitty that we need to actively protect ourselves from the gov asking for our logins/accounts/etc.

Future of Front End Web Development?

I think Chris nails a lot of points in this post. I was nodding throughout the entire read.

NPM v5.0.0

Very good news, with lots of breaking changes. Performance improvements seem to be driven a bit by the growth of Yarn.

JSON Feed

Interesting. I’m for the idea. Will be adding to this blog soon.

One Step Closer to a Closed Internet

Not good. Sign the petition if you haven’t already.

Butternut

Looking forward to seeing this grow. More and more of my build times have been increasing, faster tools means a happier dev.

Open-Include

Heard about this thanks to Mojtaba Seyedi’s post on Sublime Text plugins.

Asynchronous JavaScript with async/await

Nice quick run down of the async/await keywords in ES2017. Really like this direction after having worked with a lot of .then chaining.

Stack Overflow Trends

This is pretty awesome. Recently had a conversation with another developer about frameworks and libraries. Stack Overflow’s trends data kinda validated the conclusion we were reaching.

ReactConf 2017 Playlist

These videos have been published for about a month now, but I found out about the playlist just this past week. A lot of great talks ranging from basics to comparing state systems like MobX v. Redux.

Logic BreaksDown “1-800-273-8255”

Logic has been one of my favorite artists lately. Love his overall drive, but tackling the subject of suicide with his music is pretty cool. His new album drops today, so I’ll be listening to that on repeat.

You’re Not Going To Believe What I’m About To Tell You

Always great stuff from The Oatmeal.

Prepack

Computations being done at compile-time instead of run-time is pretty clever.

Familiarity Bias is Holding You Back: It’s Time to Embrace Arrow Functions

Great examples of how to use arrow functions for currying. Myself and fellow teammates at work adopted arrow functions pretty opening and haven’t looked back.

CSSComb

This is pretty cool and covers a wide range of preferences in regards to how we write CSS. I’ve messed around with other plugins and haven’t been thrilled with the result so I’m pretty excited about this. Came across this thanks to Chris Coyier’s recent article on different ways to group properties in CSS.

The good way to file a bad bug

For anyone submitting bugs to developers, if there is one thing to take away from this article it is how to form good ticket titles. A vague ticket title is the quickest way to have me skip over it and curse your name under my breath.