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on Aug. 13, 2022
Ever so often the term ‘syntactic sugar’ comes when people discuss language features, and it’s not uncommon to see the word ‘just’ right in front of it; some examples: Why Async/Await Is More Than Just Syntactic Sugar JS classes are not “just syntactic sugar” The ‘just’ has a lot of meaning here.…
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on Jun. 20, 2022
Frustrated with the lack of well maintained, minimal OAuth2 libraries, I wrote my own. This new OAuth2 library is only 3KB gzipped, mainly because it has 0 dependencies and relies on modern APIs like fetch() and Web Crypto which are built in Node 18 (but it works with Polyfills on Node 14 and 16).…
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on Mar. 18, 2022
Daylight savings time is hated by many, and twice per year a discussion reignites to get rid of it. Lot of folks feel this is a great idea. This year this decision seems especially close in the US. If this law passes, it will probably also change where I live 🇨🇦. No doubt there’s lots of benefits…
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on Mar. 4, 2022
In December log4j, a library that’s used by a massive amount of projects had a major vulnerability, and in January the author of ‘Faker’ and ‘Color’ went nuclear, released a intentionally buggy version that broke a lot of projects (temporarily). A lot has been said about both of these, but I wanted…
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on Jan. 29, 2022
12 years ago I asked on Stack Overflow: Are HTTP GET requests allowed to have request bodies?. This got a 2626 upvotes and a whopping 1.6 million views, so clearly it’s something lots of people are still curious about, and in some cases disagree with the accepted answer. Because it keeps popping up…
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on Jan. 6, 2022
Yesterday I received an email from a reader asking ‘Are you ok?’. It’s been nearly 8 months since the last time I wrote here. In that last post I celebrated blogging on this website for 15 years with some consistency, so perhaps it’s a bit ironic for that to be immediately followed by complete sile…