This week we look at solving accessibility issues using a Neural Network, speeding up a React app, the side effects of functional programming and more!
By Kai Wedekind Elements are accessible by default, but what happens if you allow your users to customise the appearance? This can introduce colour contrast issues. Kai Wedekind shares an approach using a client-side Neural Network.
By Charles Stover An under-appreciated concept in JavaScript is how objects and functions are references. Charles Stover explains how you can use references to cache your event listeners and improve the performance of your app.
By James Sinclair You probably don’t think ‘side effects’ when you hear functional programming but James Sinclair argues they still exist, are necessary and how to deal with them in a number of examples.
SynTax In this episode Wes and Scott discuss 11 habits that will make you a better developer – everything from understanding the business goals behind your projects to maintaining work-life balance, staying curious and developing empathy.
10:08 PM · Sep 13, 2018 My "Enough with the JavaScript already!" talk wasn't about JS being bad, it was about HTML and CSS being good. If you can do something in just HTML, do it; if you can do something with just CSS, do it. Only when HTML+CSS fails you is it time for JS.
