Jonathan Freeman

Data visualization is an important part of telling stories, but you can get lost in the weeds with D3.js for…

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional…

JavaScript is a flexible language, allowing for all sorts of styles and programming paradigms. Although this breadth sometimes comes at…

Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” when talking about memoization. While I feel comfortable throwing around terms…

Any time you’re writing code, it means the code is going to be doing work for you. Many times, the…

A few months ago, a colleague recommended an autocomplete tool to me called TabNine. It was closed source, he said,…

Over the last few weeks we’ve built up a decentralized application with Blockstack that lets you create and save web…

Our decentralized snippet application, powered by Blockstack, is starting to come together. We’ve seen how easy it is to add…

Last week we put together a basic component that allowed our users to log in with Blockstack and see their…

In the last post, I introduced Blockstack and discussed the two critical components for building decentralized apps, or dapps, on…

While Bitcoin has its ups and downs, decentralized apps or “dapps” remain a hot topic in software development circles. “Smart…

There have been a handful of times when I thought it would be nice to publish a JavaScript library on…

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been playing around with Parcel, the zero-configuration web application bundler. I had a…

Last week I recorded my first impressions with Parcel, the zero-configuration web application bundler. The initial experience was great, and…

One of my least favorite things about starting new JavaScript projects is setting up all the configuration needed to write…