Making your open source project sponsor-ready, Part 1: Companies and trust

December 14, 2021 - Your open source project is starting to gain momentum and it's time to start seeking sponsorships. Here's how to get started.

How to talk to your company about sponsoring an open source project

May 18, 2021 - Sustainable open source funding begins and ends with companies providing money for the value they're receiving.

The lazy-loading property pattern in JavaScript

April 20, 2021 - You can defer computationally-expensive operations until needed using an accessor property.

Two approaches to win an argument as a software engineer

March 16, 2021 - Software engineers are identified with strong opinions. Here's how to get your point across effectively.

Introducing Env: a better way to read environment variables in JavaScript

February 16, 2021 - Reading environment variables in JavaScript is fraught with peril. Env makes it better.

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 7: Unhandled rejection tracking

January 19, 2021 - Rejected promises without rejection handlers can hide important errors, which is why both Node.js and browsers have a way of tracking them.

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 6: Promise.all() and Promise.allSettled()

December 16, 2020 - Promise.all() and Promise.allSettled() work on any number of promises to allow you to know when all of the promises have resolved

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 5: Promise.race() and Promise.any()

November 24, 2020 - Promise.race() and Promise.any() work on any number of promises to allow you to know when certain ones have resolved

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 4: Promise.resolve() and Promise.reject()

October 13, 2020 - Promises created with Promise.resolve() and Promise.reject() go through a different process than when created with a constructor.

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 3: then(), catch(), and finally()

October 6, 2020 - Promise handlers are where all of the asynchronous actions happens and it helps to look at the internals to understand how they work.