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Casper Beyer
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JavaScript in Plain English

·May 10, 2021

Rewriting Deno’s Testing Tools

For the past month and some change, actually might’ve been two months already (It takes a day to write a proof of concept, weeks to land it). I’ve been busy re-thinking Deno’s testing tools. We’ve had a test runner since before I got involved and it worked just fine. …

Programming

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Rewriting Deno’s Testing Tools
Rewriting Deno’s Testing Tools
Programming

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Commit Log

·Oct 4, 2020

Don’t Just Contribute To Open Source, Participate

For the last couple of years, DigitalOcean has been running Hacktoberfest with the intent to contribute to open source by giving free t-shirts to people who send pull requests to open source repositories. While it’s a nice idea it misses the mark and in practice the net results is sponsored…

Open Source

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Don’t Just Contribute To Open Source, Participate
Don’t Just Contribute To Open Source, Participate
Open Source

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Jun 17, 2020

So What Exactly Is Deno

A New Contributor’s Perspective — Deno pushed out it’s first major release a not too long ago generating quite a few hot-takes. This isn’t going to be a hot-take but a look at what Deno is, where is it at right now and where it could go from a new contributor’s to perspective. So the…

Deno

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So What Exactly Is Deno
So What Exactly Is Deno
Deno

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Dec 31, 2019

Coding My First Game in My 30s

Making of Hyperlink — Back in the 90s when I was a kid I dabbled around a bit with BASIC on the Commadore 64 whenever I got the chance to jump in front of one at someone else’s house. I wouldn’t really call it programming as it was more like data entry. …

Programming

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Coding My First Game in My 30s
Coding My First Game in My 30s
Programming

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Dec 27, 2019

A Byte of Advice for New Programmers

I leave my direct-messages open so I get a lot of questions on Twitter from budding developers; “Can I ask you a question about programming?” is a common one often followed up with the same question repeated again some time later. One thing no one ever asks me is general…

Programming

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A Byte of Advice for New Programmers
A Byte of Advice for New Programmers
Programming

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Better Programming

·Nov 8, 2019

Hello, Go

A whimsical introduction to Go — I’ve taken a liking to Go, the key reason being it’s a simple language. But this leaves you, the developer, with less options for being clever. If you have to be clever to write a program, you’ll have to be twice as clever to maintain and debug it. So to…

Golang

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Hello, Go
Hello, Go
Golang

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Better Programming

·Oct 30, 2019

Lesser-Known JavaScript Hazards

Arrow functions and object literals, bindings, shallow sets, and more — JavaScript has been getting a lot of new, sugary features ever since we got over Harmony. While more features can allow us to write readable, high-quality code, it’s also easy to go overboard with what’s new and shiny and run into some of the potential pitfalls. Let’s go over some…

JavaScript

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Lesser-Known JavaScript Hazards
Lesser-Known JavaScript Hazards
JavaScript

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Better Programming

·Oct 30, 2019

Keeping It Simple With the JavaScript Console

Discover a great debugging tool — the console — I’ll admit it — I don’t always use a debugger to figure out what’s going wrong in my program. If my mouse clicks start printing documents down the hall, then it’s time to break out the most powerful of all debugging tools: the console. The reason is quite simple. When…

JavaScript

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Keeping It Simple With the JavaScript Console
Keeping It Simple With the JavaScript Console
JavaScript

6 min read


Jul 31, 2019

Why Dark Gray is Brighter than Gray In CSS

You’ve might not have noticed this as it’s a very subtle bit of trivia but in your browser there are pre-defined colors which aren’t what they seem. …

Web Development

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Why Dark Gray is Brighter than Gray In CSS
Why Dark Gray is Brighter than Gray In CSS
Web Development

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Jun 5, 2019

How To Design for the Web in 2019

The web moves fast; keep up! — I wrote about how to design for the modern web way back in 2018, but the web moves forward quickly, so those guidelines are already obsolete and outdated as more modern conventions have become mainstream. Let's break down and go through the most important design principles of designing for the…

Web Design

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How To Design for the Web in 2019
How To Design for the Web in 2019
Web Design

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Casper Beyer

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