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A persona-based approach to AI-assisted software development

Discover how breaking AI assistance into specialized personas can help you tackle complex software development tasks more efficiently and with less frustration.

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 11, 2025 • 6 min read

AI Claude GPT

Post to social media using Claude Desktop and Crosspost

Crosspost is a small utility I wrote to post across social media networks. It now includes an MCP server for use with AI agents.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 8, 2025 • 5 min read

Open Source AI Claude

Introducing Mentoss: The fetch mocker

A new approach to mocking global fetch() calls that works in both browsers and server-side runtimes.

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 27, 2025 • 10 min read

JavaScript Open Source Fetch

Present technical information using a storytelling framework

Streamline presentations to stakeholders using a storytelling approach.

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 4, 2024 • 5 min read

Speaking Communicating Writing

How someone temporarily took over my subdomain

How an old DNS record set up my subdomain to be occupied by someone else.

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 21, 2024 • 4 min read

AWS Cloud DNS

Backing up my life with a Synology NAS

Data in a public cloud is out of your control, that's why I decided to create my own private cloud in my office.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 23, 2024 • 12 min read

Security NAS Synology

Managing your to-do-list as a staff+ engineer

With great agency comes responsibility – to yourself. Learn how to triage your projects and tasks into a structured to-do list.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 20, 2024 • 9 min read

Process Productivity Staff+

What's the difference between JavaScript engines and JavaScript runtimes?

Runtimes and engines are often incorrectly referred to as the same thing.

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 26, 2024 • 5 min read

JavaScript ECMAScript APIs

Introducing humanfs (formerly fsx): A modern filesystem API for JavaScript

Filesystem APIs in JavaScript runtimes haven't been great for a long time. This is my attempt to make a better one.

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 10, 2024 • 11 min read

JavaScript Filesystem APIs

JavaScript WTF: Why does every() return true for empty arrays?

How can a condition be satisified when there aren't any values to test?

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 8, 2023 • 6 min read

JavaScript WTF

Managing your interrupt rate as a tech lead, part 3: Office hours and appointment blocks

You can more easily eliminate interruptions when you create a specific time for them.

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 1, 2023 • 11 min read

Tech Leads Leadership Time Management

Managing your interrupt rate as a tech lead, part 2: Time blocking

Your calendar is a place where you should be in control and not be at the whims of others who send you invites.

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 25, 2023 • 13 min read

Tech Leads Leadership Time Management

Managing your interrupt rate as a tech lead, part 1: You get more of what you reward

Many of the interruptions that fill up your day aren't necessary. Here's how to start taming your interrupt rate.

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 18, 2023 • 10 min read

Tech Leads Leadership Time Management

Disabling paste in textboxes is not a security feature

This common, and annoying, pattern on many government and financial websites causes more problems than it solves.

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 3, 2023 • 11 min read

HTML Security Accessibility

Automating tweets with Twitter API v2

As Twitter disables many apps that use the v1.1 API, it's time to learn how to automate tweets using v2.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 18, 2023 • 5 min read

Twitter API OAuth

Creating a Jekyll-style blog post URL in Astro

It's not obvious from the examples, but you can emulate Jekyll-style blog post URLs including years and months in Astro.

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 14, 2023 • 6 min read

JavaScript Astro Jekyll

Creating a Jekyll-style blog post year archive in Astro

While not included in their default blog template, it is straightforward to create a year-based archive for your posts in Astro.

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 14, 2023 • 4 min read

JavaScript Astro Jekyll

Setting up a Rust development environment with Visual Studio Code

Getting started with Rust development takes a few more steps than with other web-based programming languages.

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 15, 2022 • 4 min read

Rust Visual Studio Code

Sponsoring dependencies: The next step in open source sustainability

We are at a point in open source development where it's become clear that not all projects have the same opportunity to receive funding and maintainers are the key to fixing this.

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 14, 2022 • 11 min read

Open Source Fundraising Sustainability

Making your open source project sponsor-ready, Part 3: Accepting sponsorships

When your project is ready to accept sponsorships from companies, there are several things you can do to improve your chances. This post describes how to prepare your project to ensure sponsorships can start flowing in.

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 28, 2021 • 10 min read

Open Source Fundraising Sponsorship

Making your open source project sponsor-ready, Part 2: Project hygiene

Attracting sponsors isn't always about reaching directly. Sometimes it's about doing the little things right that make your project successful.

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 21, 2021 • 11 min read

Open Source Fundraising Sponsorship

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

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

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 14, 2021 • 7 min read

Open Source Fundraising Sponsorship

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

Sustainable open source funding begins and ends with companies providing money for the value they're receiving.

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 18, 2021 • 20 min read

Open Source Fundraising

The lazy-loading property pattern in JavaScript

You can defer computationally-expensive operations until needed using an accessor property.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 20, 2021 • 6 min read

JavaScript Design Patterns

Two approaches to win an argument as a software engineer

Software engineers are identified with strong opinions. Here's how to get your point across effectively.

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 16, 2021 • 7 min read

Communication Work Skills

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

Reading environment variables in JavaScript is fraught with peril. Env makes it better.

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 16, 2021 • 6 min read

JavaScript Environment Variables Node.js

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

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

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 19, 2021 • 19 min read

JavaScript Promises ECMAScript 6

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

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

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 16, 2020 • 11 min read

JavaScript Promises ECMAScript 6

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

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

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 24, 2020 • 19 min read

JavaScript Promises ECMAScript 6

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

Promises created with Promise.resolve() and Promise.reject() go through a different process than when created with a constructor.

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 13, 2020 • 8 min read

JavaScript Promises ECMAScript 6

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

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

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 6, 2020 • 22 min read

JavaScript Promises ECMAScript 6

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 2: Resolving to a promise

Resolving promises to non-thenables is easy; resolving promises to other promises requires a bit of work.

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 29, 2020 • 7 min read

JavaScript Promises ECMAScript 6

Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 1: Constructor

Sometimes it's easier to understand complex concepts like promises by creating them yourself.

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 22, 2020 • 14 min read

JavaScript Promises ECMAScript 6

How to safely use GitHub Actions in organizations

GitHub actions have some good default security measures built in, but you can do more to protect yourself.

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 21, 2020 • 16 min read

GitHub GitHub Actions Tokens

How I think about solving problems

The five questions I used to help me decide, prioritize, and solve problems.

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 18, 2020 • 9 min read

Problem Solving Work Skills

Scheduling Jekyll posts with Netlify and GitHub Actions

Using a GitHub Action cron job to schedule Netlify builds for static site generated blog posts.

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 1, 2019 • 6 min read

Netlify Static Site GitHub

Securing persistent environment variables using Vercel (formerly Vercel)

The way to securely add environment variables to your Vercel isn't obvious. Here's how to do it.

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 3, 2019 • 5 min read

Vercel Secrets Environment Variables

Outputting Markdown from Jekyll using hooks

Jekyll hooks provide enough flexibility to modify posts before output.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 16, 2019 • 10 min read

Jekyll Liquid Ruby

Computer science in JavaScript: Circular Doubly-linked lists

Expanding on a doubly linked list by adding circular traversal.

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 5, 2019 • 14 min read

Computer Science Data Structures JavaScript

Computer science in JavaScript: Doubly linked lists

Implementing a doubly linked list in JavaScript.

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 5, 2019 • 11 min read

Computer Science Data Structures JavaScript

Why I've stopped exporting defaults from my JavaScript modules

After years of fighting with default exports, I've changed my ways.

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 15, 2019 • 11 min read

JavaScript Modules CommonJS

Computer science in JavaScript: Linked list

Building the classic computer science data structure in JavaScript.

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 8, 2019 • 15 min read

Computer Science JavaScript Linked List

My (somewhat) complete salary history as a software engineer

Sharing my salary history to help women understand what they should be making.

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 30, 2018 • 17 min read

Salary Compensation Stock Options

Extracting command line arguments from Node.js using destructuring

Using array destructuring to easily handle command line arguments.

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 2, 2018 • 2 min read

JavaScript Destructuring Node.js

Detecting new posts with Jekyll and Netlify

Use Node.js to tell when a new Jekyll blog post is published.

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 4, 2018 • 5 min read

JavaScript Jekyll Netlify

Scheduling Jekyll posts with Netlify and AWS

Using AWS Lambda functions to schedule Netlify builds.

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 27, 2018 • 11 min read

Netlify Static Site AWS

The inception of ESLint

The story of how one bug at work spawned the pluggable linter.

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 27, 2018 • 6 min read

JavaScript ESLint ECMAScript

The ECMAScript 2016 change you probably don't know

How the JavaScript strict mode directive changed in 2016.

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 18, 2016 • 7 min read

JavaScript ECMAScript 2016 Strict Mode

ES6 module loading: More complicated than you think

Module JavaScript can be indistinguishable from non-module JavaScript.

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 5, 2016 • 7 min read

JavaScript ECMAScript 6 Modules

Mimicking npm script in Node.js

Run command line tools with specific environment settings.

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 8, 2016 • 4 min read

JavaScript Node.js npm

Reflections on ESLint's success

The little linter that could has grown up before my eyes.

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 9, 2016 • 13 min read

JavaScript ESLint JSHint

React and the economics of dynamic web interfaces

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 26, 2016 • 6 min read

JavaScript React jQuery

Why I'm not using your open source project

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 15, 2015 • 11 min read

Open Source Maintainability Software Design

Hidden performance implications of Object.defineProperty()

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 17, 2015 • 5 min read

Performance ECMAScript 5 JavaScript

ECMAScript 6 destructuring gotcha

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 20, 2015 • 4 min read

ECMAScript 6 Destructuring

Triggering Jenkins builds by URL

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 6, 2015 • 5 min read

Jenkins Automation Builds

My favorite interview question

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 22, 2015 • 11 min read

Interviews Hiring

Is the web platform getting too big?

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 8, 2015 • 9 min read

Web Internet API

From Wordpress to Jekyll: My new blog setup

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 26, 2015 • 10 min read

Blog Jekyll Nginx

Announcing the NCZOnline Newsletter

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 16, 2015 • 3 min read

Newsletter

Why you're afraid of public speaking

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 23, 2015 • 9 min read

Speaking

The bunny theory of code

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 14, 2015 • 6 min read

Software Engineering Source Code Source Control

Consensus-Driven Development

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 14, 2015 • 10 min read

consensus team

Generalists and specialists: thoughts on hiring

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 15, 2014 • 16 min read

Engineers Generalists Hiring

My ECMAScript 7 wishlist

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 3, 2014 • 8 min read

ECMAScript 6 ECMAScript 7 JavaScript

An open letter to the FCC regarding net neutrality

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 27, 2014 • 6 min read

FCC Internet Net Neutrality

URLs are already dead

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 6, 2014 • 11 min read

Browsers Internet URLs

Creating type-safe properties with ECMAScript 6 proxies

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 29, 2014 • 4 min read

ECMAScript 6 JavaScript Proxies

Creating defensive objects with ES6 proxies

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 22, 2014 • 7 min read

ECMAScript 6 JavaScript Proxies

The Value-Effort Matrix: A framework for thinking about work

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 15, 2014 • 7 min read

Business Product Managers Work

I have Lyme disease

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 2, 2014 • 19 min read

Lyme disease

Announcing Understanding ECMAScript 6

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 26, 2014 • 7 min read

Books ECMAScript 6 JavaScript

Leanpub: One year later

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 18, 2014 • 7 min read

Books Writing

Accessing Google Spreadsheets from Node.js

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 4, 2014 • 6 min read

API Google JavaScript

Now shipping: Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 25, 2014 • 5 min read

Books JavaScript Writing

Maintainable Node.js JavaScript: Avoid process.exit()

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 4, 2014 • 4 min read

JavaScript Maintainable Node.js

Private instance members with weakmaps in JavaScript

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 21, 2014 • 6 min read

ECMAScript 6 JavaScript WeakMap

How to be a mentor

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 7, 2014 • 9 min read

Career Mentoring Professional

On interviewing front-end engineers

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 27, 2013 • 12 min read

Front End Engineers Interviews

Now available: ESLint v0.1.0

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 4, 2013 • 4 min read

Code Quality ESLint JSHint

The problem with tech conference talks lately

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 29, 2013 • 9 min read

Conferences Speaking

The best career advice I've received

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 15, 2013 • 12 min read

Advice Career Mentoring

Node.js and the new web front-end

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 7, 2013 • 8 min read

Architecture JavaScript Node.js

Understanding ECMAScript 6 arrow functions

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 10, 2013 • 7 min read

ECMAScript 6 Functions JavaScript

That time the lights went out at Etsy

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 21, 2013 • 5 min read

Speaking

Understanding how you provide value

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 6, 2013 • 8 min read

Career Professional Psychology

Introducing ESLint

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 16, 2013 • 4 min read

ESLint JavaScript JSHint

The case for setImmediate()

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 9, 2013 • 9 min read

Performance process.nextTick setImmediate

Internet Explorer 11: “Don't call me IE”

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 2, 2013 • 5 min read

Internet Explorer JavaScript navigator

eval() isn't evil, just misunderstood

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 25, 2013 • 8 min read

eval JavaScript

On the politics, cargo-culting, and maintainability of JavaScript

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 28, 2013 • 13 min read

Conventions JavaScript

GitHub workflows inside of a company

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 21, 2013 • 6 min read

Git GitHub

Blink and the end of vendor prefixes

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 30, 2013 • 6 min read

Blink Vendor Prefix Web Development

Getting the URL of an iframe's parent

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 16, 2013 • 3 min read

iframe JavaScript referrer

Making accessible icon buttons

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 1, 2013 • 9 min read

Accessibility ARIA HTML

Internet Explorer 11′s user-agent string: What does it mean?

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 27, 2013 • 4 min read

Browsers Internet Explorer User Agent String

What kind of a software engineer do you want to be known as?

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 26, 2013 • 8 min read

Software Engineering

On joining Box

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 21, 2013 • 3 min read

Front

Making an accessible dialog box

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 12, 2013 • 9 min read

Accessibility JavaScript

What technical recruiters can learn from online dating

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 5, 2013 • 21 min read

LinkedIn Recruiters

You can't create a button

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 29, 2013 • 5 min read

Accessibility ARIA JavaScript

What the NFL can teach us about diversity in technology

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 21, 2013 • 10 min read

Diversity Minorities NFL

Fixing “Skip to content” links

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 15, 2013 • 5 min read

Accessibility HTML

Advice for new and aspiring technical speakers

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 10, 2013 • 19 min read

Speaking

Being right doesn't matter

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 31, 2012 • 6 min read

Social Interaction Software Engineering

Now available: Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript (beta)

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 18, 2012 • 7 min read

JavaScript Writing

Are your mixins ECMAScript 5 compatible?

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 11, 2012 • 4 min read

ECMAScript 5 JavaScript

Adventures in pointerless computing

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 4, 2012 • 5 min read

Accessibility Keyboard

Computer science in JavaScript: Quicksort

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 27, 2012 • 9 min read

Algorithms Computer Science JavaScript

The Front End Summit new speaker program

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 20, 2012 • 8 min read

Conferences Speaking

JavaScript APIs you've never heard of (and some you have)

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 13, 2012 • 1 min read

Ajax API CSS

ECMAScript 6 collections, Part 3: WeakMaps

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 6, 2012 • 4 min read

ECMAScript 6 JavaScript WeakMap

The “thank you” that changed my life

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 30, 2012 • 12 min read

Personal

Book review: Think Like a Programmer

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 19, 2012 • 3 min read

Books C#Problem Solving

Does JavaScript need classes?

ECMAScript 6 adds classes to JavaScript. Do we really neeed them?

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 16, 2012 • 6 min read

Classes ECMAScript 6 JavaScript

ECMAScript 6 collections, Part 2: Maps

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 9, 2012 • 7 min read

ECMAScript 6 JavaScript Maps

Thoughts on TypeScript

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 4, 2012 • 13 min read

JavaScript TypeScript

Computer science in JavaScript: Merge sort

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 2, 2012 • 5 min read

Algorithms Computer Science JavaScript

ECMAScript 6 collections, Part 1: Sets

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 25, 2012 • 6 min read

Arrays ECMAScript 6 JavaScript

Computer science in JavaScript: Insertion sort

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 17, 2012 • 5 min read

Algorithms Computer Science JavaScript

Replacing Apache with nginx on Elastic Beanstalk

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 14, 2012 • 8 min read

Apache AWS Elastic Beanstalk

CSS Lint v0.9.9 now available

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 12, 2012 • 3 min read

CSS CSSLint

The innovations of Internet Explorer

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 22, 2012 • 14 min read

CSS DOM Internet Explorer

Setting up SSL on an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 15, 2012 • 8 min read

Apache AWS ELB

Setting up Apache as a SSL front end for Play

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 8, 2012 • 8 min read

Apache Play Framework SSL

A critical review of ECMAScript 6 quasi-literals

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 1, 2012 • 22 min read

ECMAScript 6 JavaScript Quasis

Thoughts on ECMAScript 6 and new syntax

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 24, 2012 • 10 min read

ECMAScript 6 JavaScript Syntax

It's time to stop blaming Internet Explorer

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 11, 2012 • 6 min read

Browsers Internet Explorer Progressive Enhancement

iOS has a :hover problem

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 5, 2012 • 6 min read

CSS Hover iOS

Book review: Adaptive Web Design

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 3, 2012 • 3 min read

Books Progressive Enhancement

What's a software engineer, anyway?

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 28, 2012 • 6 min read

Engineers Software

Web developers are software engineers, too

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 19, 2012 • 11 min read

Engineers Software Software Engineering

The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy)

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 12, 2012 • 32 min read

Engineers Software

Working with files in JavaScript, Part 5: Blobs

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 5, 2012 • 6 min read

Blob File API JavaScript

Working with files in JavaScript, Part 4: Object URLs

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 31, 2012 • 5 min read

File API Files JavaScript

Now available: Maintainable JavaScript

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 29, 2012 • 5 min read

JavaScript

Working with files in JavaScript, Part 3: Progress events and errors

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 22, 2012 • 5 min read

File API FileReader Files

Working with files in JavaScript, Part 2: FileReader

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 15, 2012 • 5 min read

File API FileReader JavaScript

Working with files in JavaScript, Part 1: The Basics

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 8, 2012 • 6 min read

File API JavaScript

Book review: The Linux Command Line

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 1, 2012 • 2 min read

Book Reviews Linux

The performance of localStorage revisited

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 25, 2012 • 6 min read

JavaScript localStorage Performance

How to install Apache Ant on Windows

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 12, 2012 • 4 min read

It's time to start using JavaScript strict mode

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 13, 2012 • 7 min read

JavaScript Strict Mode

In defense of localStorage

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 7, 2012 • 9 min read

JavaScript localStorage Performance

Understanding technical debt

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 22, 2012 • 5 min read

Software Development Technical Debt

Book review: The Art of Readable Code

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 13, 2012 • 3 min read

Code Maintainability Readability

CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 2

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 19, 2012 • 6 min read

CSS JavaScript Media Query

Book review: The Tangled Web

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 17, 2012 • 3 min read

Book Reviews Security

Now available: Professional JavaScript, 3rd Edition

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 9, 2012 • 6 min read

JavaScript

CSS Lint v0.9.2 now available

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 5, 2012 • 1 min read

CSS CSSLint

Proposal: Scripting detection using CSS media queries

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 4, 2012 • 5 min read

CSS JavaScript Media Query

CSS media queries in JavaScript, Part 1

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 3, 2012 • 5 min read

CSS JavaScript Media Query

Introducing Props2Js

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 20, 2011 • 4 min read

Build JavaScript JSON

Book review: HTML & CSS

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 16, 2011 • 3 min read

Book Reviews CSS HTML

Timer resolution in browsers

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 14, 2011 • 5 min read

JavaScript Performance Timer

How content delivery networks (CDNs) work

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 29, 2011 • 8 min read

CDN Optimization Performance

Book review: Closure: the Definitive Guide

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 22, 2011 • 3 min read

Book Reviews Closure

Setting up multi-user Apache on EC2

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 18, 2011 • 4 min read

Amazon Apache EC2

Custom types (classes) using object literals in JavaScript

Nicholas C. Zakas

November 4, 2011 • 4 min read

ECMAScript Harmony JavaScript

Improving Rhino CLI utility performance

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 25, 2011 • 4 min read

CLI JavaScript JSHint

CSS Lint v0.8.0 now available

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 24, 2011 • 2 min read

CSS CSSLint

So you want to write JavaScript for a living? [repost]

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 20, 2011 • 10 min read

Employment JavaScript Jobs

CSS Lint v0.7.0 released

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 14, 2011 • 2 min read

CSS CSSLint

Simple, maintainable templating with JavaScript

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 11, 2011 • 4 min read

Handlebars HTML JavaScript

When web standards fail us

Nicholas C. Zakas

October 3, 2011 • 7 min read

HTML HTML5 JavaScript

Script yielding with setImmediate

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 19, 2011 • 4 min read

JavaScript Performance Timer

Experimenting with ECMAScript 6 proxies

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 15, 2011 • 6 min read

ECMAScript Harmony JavaScript

CSS Lint v0.6.0 now available

Nicholas C. Zakas

September 3, 2011 • 2 min read

CSSLint

CSS Lint updated to 0.5.0

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 18, 2011 • 3 min read

CSS CSSLint

Introduction to the Page Visibility API

Nicholas C. Zakas

August 9, 2011 • 4 min read

JavaScript Page Visibility API Performance

Quick and dirty: Spinning up a new EC2 web server in five minutes

Nicholas C. Zakas

July 21, 2011 • 6 min read

Amazon EC2 Web Development

Book review: Eloquent JavaScript

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 19, 2011 • 3 min read

Book Reviews JavaScript

Introducing CSS Lint

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 15, 2011 • 3 min read

CSS CSSLint Lint

On leaving Yahoo! and what's next

Nicholas C. Zakas

June 3, 2011 • 4 min read

Better JavaScript animations with requestAnimationFrame

Nicholas C. Zakas

May 3, 2011 • 11 min read

Animation JavaScript mozRequestAnimationFrame

Lessons on @font-face from the F2E Summit

Nicholas C. Zakas

April 5, 2011 • 4 min read

CSS CSS3 Performance

Using HTML5 semantic elements today

Nicholas C. Zakas

March 22, 2011 • 12 min read

HTML5 JavaScript Web Development

The importance of being versioned

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 22, 2011 • 7 min read

API Versioning Web Services

Separating JavaScript download and execution

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 14, 2011 • 10 min read

Feature Detection JavaScript Performance

On UA sniffing, browser detection, and Alex's post

Nicholas C. Zakas

February 8, 2011 • 7 min read

Browser Detection Feature Detection JavaScript

The sorry state of the CSS3 specifications

Nicholas C. Zakas

January 11, 2011 • 6 min read

CSS CSS3 W3C

Thoughts on script loaders

Nicholas C. Zakas

December 21, 2010 • 8 min read

JavaScript Loaders

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