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1. On being a "JavaScript framework developer"...

   Published Sep 29 2024 in JavaScript , Web

   Quick thoughts on being a framework developer.

2. The order of accessible name computation steps

   Published Sep 13 2024 in Accessibility

   Today I learned in which order accessible names are computed, and how you can evaluate this computation in Chrome DevTools.

3. A shortcut to edit long shell commands in your $EDITOR

   Published Sep 08 2024 in Bash

   Use ctrl+x and ctrl+e to edit long shell commands in your favorite editor.

4. Space shuttle style coding

   Published Aug 14 2024 in Computer Science

   Write code as if you're shipping people to space.

5. Forms without an accessible name are not exposed as ARIA landmarks

   Published Jul 19 2024 in Accessibility , HTML

   Forms without an accessible name won't expose a proper "role" landmark region.

6. Construct query strings from FormData

   Published Jun 30 2024 in TypeScript

   Add typecasts to directly pass a FormData type to the URLSearchParams constructor.

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