David Walsh

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The post AutoSave with VSCode appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Big thanks to my old MooTools colleague Chris Nakazawa for calling this out!

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David Walsh

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The question still remains about how we can detect an element being pinned. WNwVXKx by David Walsh ( @darkwing ) on CodePen. The post How to Detect When a Sticky Element Gets Pinned appeared first on David Walsh Blog. We can determine if an element has become sticky thanks to the IntersectionObserver API !

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David Walsh

JULY 27, 2022

What’s great about defaultPrevented is that it stays with the event without needing to track track it globally! The post JavaScript Event.defaultPrevented appeared first on David Walsh Blog. I’ve been handling events for two decades and didn’t know this property existed until now.

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David Walsh

AUGUST 11, 2023

The post queryLocalFonts appeared first on David Walsh Blog. That’s where queryLocalFonts comes in — an native JavaScript function to gather user font information. queryLocalFonts is an async function that requires user permission via a browser prompt when first executed. It’s so cool that this API exists though!

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David Walsh

APRIL 5, 2022

Every once in a while I learn about a JavaScript property that I wish I had known about years earlier — valueAsNumber is one of them. The post Input valueAsNumber appeared first on David Walsh Blog. PSA: number inputs have a `.valueAsNumber`

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David Walsh

JANUARY 16, 2023

A few years back I wrote a blog post about how write a fetch Promise that times out. The post fetch with Timeout appeared first on David Walsh Blog. The function was effective but the code wasn’t great, mostly because AbortController , which allows you to cancel a fetch Promise , did not yet exist.

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David Walsh

APRIL 26, 2022

I’m shocked I didn’t know about these methods before today. The post Legacy String Methods for Generating HTML appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Native prototypes don’t usually remove methods and for good reason — they can break websites! It’s always fun to see relics of the web past though!

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David Walsh

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

One such property I just learned about was isConnected , a node property that attached to a context (i.e. The post Node isConnected appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Every so often I discover a property in JavaScript objects that I didn’t know existed, oftentimes using another trick to accomplish the same functionality.

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David Walsh

DECEMBER 29, 2022

It’s one thing to know about what’s in the browser document, it’s another to have insight as to the user’s browser itself. The post Detect Browser Bars Visibility with JavaScript appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Maybe providing a warning to users when your web app required maximum browser space.

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David Walsh

MAY 9, 2022

What about getting a random value from an array? The post Get a Random Array Item with JavaScript appeared first on David Walsh Blog. JavaScript Arrays are probably my favorite primitive in JavaScript. You can do all sorts of awesome things with arrays: get unique values , clone them , empty them , etc.

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David Walsh

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Worried about having to code for all this madness? The post How to Internationalize Numbers with JavaScript appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Presenting numbers in a readable format takes many forms, from visual charts to simply adding punctuation. Those punctuation, however, are different based on internationalization.

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David Walsh

APRIL 18, 2023

Krafton recently announced they would start banning cheaters by hardware ID, which got me thinking about how you can get a user’s hardware ID. The post How to Get a Computer’s Hardware ID appeared first on David Walsh Blog. A cheater could sell one component to another player but the chances are pretty low.

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David Walsh

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

</button> I’m ashamed I didn’t know about this form attribute. Did you know about this attribute?! appeared first on David Walsh Blog. In that past I’ve executed CSS magic tricks to accomplish buttons displaying outside of their form area. The post Use a Submit Button Outside of a Form!

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David Walsh

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’ve written about waitForever , waitForTime , and JavaScript Polling in the past, but I wanted to have a more modern way of await ing a given state. The post JavaScript waitFor Polling appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Let’s have a look at this super useful waitFor function!

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David Walsh

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

One thing I love about JavaScript is that there are many ways to accomplish the same task, one such example being creating functions. The post How to Create an Async Function appeared first on David Walsh Blog. I don’t believe that I’ve ever used the new Function pattern but that doesn’t mean you don’t!

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David Walsh

MARCH 6, 2023

When you use a web browser, you can highlight text or right-click an image and select “Copy Image” That made me think about how developers can detect what is in the clipboard. The post Detect the Content Type in the Clipboard appeared first on David Walsh Blog.

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David Walsh

APRIL 26, 2021

With a match groups, as Addy Osmani enlightened me about last week: Tip: You can name capture groups for Regular Expressions in JavaScript. The post Regular Expression Match Groups appeared first on David Walsh Blog. How can we solve the maintainability problem?

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David Walsh

AUGUST 3, 2020

One function that many don’t know about is Promise.allSettled , a function that fires when all promises in an array are settled, regardless of whether any of the promises are resolved or rejected. The post Promise.allSettled appeared first on David Walsh Blog. then(_ => console.log("Then!")).

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AUGUST 19, 2022

hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details. The post git Force Push appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Integrate the remote changes (e.g. hint: 'git pull.') before pushing again.

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David Walsh

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I previously wrote about How to Push to a Git Remote Branch of a Different Name — this time we’ll talk about installing a module from another repository instead of a published version. The post How to Install a NPM Module from GitHub Branch appeared first on David Walsh Blog.

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David Walsh

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Git is one of those tools that I’ve always known just enough about to be dangerous, and usually tend to learn new skills when I’m in a position to truly need them. The post How to Push to a Git Remote Branch of a Different Name appeared first on David Walsh Blog. A sensitive branch like gh-pages will do that to you.

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David Walsh

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Check out the AI image generated with the following prompt: Two women, drinking wine, at dinner, talking about bitcoin, happy, modern : The more detailed the prompt you provide, the closer to your desired vision you should get. The post Welcome to the New LimeWire: AI Media Generation (Sponsored) appeared first on David Walsh Blog.

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David Walsh

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

I’ve always said that I know just enough about git to get the job done, but also do something destructive. The post git: Remove Untracked Files appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Nothing embodies that more than my recent mistake. It will also delete files hidden by.gitignore when you run a git status.

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David Walsh

JANUARY 15, 2024

You need Peacock, ESPN Plus, Paramount Plus, and then AppleTV Plus if you care about MLS. The post Thoughts on Streaming Services: 2024 Edition appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Want to watch American Football? You need YouTubeTV, Peacock, and Amazon Prime. Soccer fan? Being a live sports fan is really, really expensive.

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David Walsh

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tricks like this are so useful and reliable; you put them in place once and don’t consciously think about them again — and that’s OK. The post Detect Changed Files with git appeared first on David Walsh Blog. js$' | tr 'n' '0' | xargs -0 eslint --fix. Set it and forget it!

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David Walsh

DECEMBER 22, 2020

I’ve written a number of blog posts about JavaScript tricks: Promise tricks , type conversion tricks , spread tricks , and a host of other JavaScript tricks. The post Break a forEach Loop with JavaScript appeared first on David Walsh Blog.

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David Walsh

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Request Metrics monitors performance and uptime for David’s blog , and our metrics tell an interesting story. David’s site uses WordPress. DavidWalsh.name Technology. Median page load times grew to more than 30 seconds.

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David Walsh

JANUARY 31, 2022

Want to learn more about the great features and usages of Cloudinary? The post Easy Asset Access with the Cloudinary Media Library Browser Extension appeared first on David Walsh Blog. If you haven’t tried Cloudinary yet, you’re really missing out. Check out my dozens of previous Cloudinary tutorials !

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David Walsh

JUNE 12, 2023

A few friends have recently asked me to talk to them about Bitcoin. The post Confessions of a Web Developer XX appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Working with a Design Systems team is one of the best things to happen to my career. Ready to use components make development faster, more focused, and more enjoyable for engineers.

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David Walsh

APRIL 16, 2021

The post Monitor Your SEO Placement with SEObase (Sponsored) appeared first on David Walsh Blog. I was able to sign up , add my site, add some keywords, and view results in 5 minutes. I look forward to using SEObase to monitor my keywords in the future. I look forward to using SEObase to monitor my keywords in the future.

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David Walsh

MARCH 22, 2021

There’s sometimes a tribal attitude about how web developers should be debugging their code and solving problems. appeared first on David Walsh Blog. There’s the console.log loyalists, then there’s the debugger/breakpoint maximalists. The post Use Logpoints!

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David Walsh

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As I said, the questions were fair, but it made me realize how I need to improve my generator function skills (I never use them in the day job) and that I could tighten up some details about template strings, etc. Since I had a good time with the JavaScript content, I moved on to learn about Python and Go.

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David Walsh

JULY 10, 2022

I recently got curious about whether other popular extensions had completed the version 3 update. The post How to Get Extension Manifest Information appeared first on David Walsh Blog. One change in that environment is coming January 2023 — pushing extensions to move to manifest version 3.

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David Walsh

JUNE 3, 2021

I thought it was a Windows sleep/hibernation issue but the solution I wrote about in that post didn’t fix the problem. The post How to Restart appeared first on David Walsh Blog. Having the mining.exe stop work but not kill the process is a really frustrating problem. ethermine.org:4444 -pool2 us1.ethermine.org:4444

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David Walsh

APRIL 10, 2019

For tech experts like us, however, we love command line tools to automate just about everything. The post Open FaceTime Call from Command Line appeared first on David Walsh Blog. We need communication tools to provide the lowest barrier of entry, since not all users will be tech savvy. Call Jenny open facetime://5558675309.

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David Walsh

MAY 7, 2019

JavaScript’s loose nature allows developers to employ amazing tricks to do just about anything you’d like. I’ve detailed how you can filter falsy values in arrays using a filter(Boolean) trick, but reader David Hibshman shared another trick for typecasting array values the same way. filter(Boolean); }.

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David Walsh

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

On this week’s episode: David shrugs aside the scars of the week’s DevTools Debugger development to welcome this week’s guest: Charlie Vazac. Charlie boasts the title of Senior Architect at Akamai and joins David and Todd to talk about third party JavaScript, monkey patching, security, performance, and more!

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