Alex MacArthur

Alex MacArthur

Oct 6 '20

When DOM Updates Appear to Be Asynchronous

#javascript #animation #performance

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Bringing Modern JavaScript to Libraries

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Aug 1 '20

How I made WordPress Faster with 1KB JavaScript

I love that this solution specifically addresses challenges...

Nov 28 '19

Animated Typing Utility with JavaScript

Great, straightforward instructions on getting up & run...

Jun 2 '19

Alex MacArthur

Aug 7 '20

Why I Like Tailwind CSS

#tailwindcss #css #styling #frameworks

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7 min read

Alex MacArthur

Jul 16 '20

Don't Feel Bad About Using XMLHttpRequest

#ajax #fetch #xmlhttprequest #javascript

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12 min read

Alex MacArthur

May 15 '20

When It Makes Sense to Use a Utility Function Instead of a Polyfill

#performance #polyfill #javascript

11 min read

Alex MacArthur

Apr 8 '20

Clean Up Your Redux Store Listeners When Component State Updates

7 min read

Alex MacArthur

Mar 31 '20

Cleaning Up Redux Store Listeners When Component State Updates

#react #redux #statemanagement #lifecycle

7 min read

Alex MacArthur

Mar 9 '20

Streamlining Conditional Statements with Logical Operators

#javascript #logic #programming #syntax

4 min read

Alex MacArthur

Mar 9 '20

A Plot Proposal for Frozen III

#entertainment #browsers #chrome #firefox

1 min read

Alex MacArthur

Mar 9 '20

If the Democratic Presidential Candidates Were JavaScript Packages

#javascript #politics

1 min read

Alex MacArthur

Nov 26 '19

For the Sake of Your Event Listeners, Use Web Workers

#javascript #performance #webworkers

5 min read

Alex MacArthur

Nov 10 '19

Blog for Your Own Sake

#blogging #writing

3 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 29 '19

Building a Shell Function to Copy the Latest Git Commit SHA

#zsh #bash #shell

5 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 27 '19

Should We All Start Implementing Differential Serving?

#performance #javascript #frontend

6 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Deploying Code with a Git Hook on a DigitalOcean Droplet

6 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

A Simpler Unit Testing Setup for WordPress

7 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Creating a .map() Method for Objects, Strings, Sets, and Maps

5 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Remember to Probably Target an Empty Object with Object.assign()

2 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Formatting My PHP More Efficiently with a Bash Function

3 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Quickly Spin Up MySQL w/ Docker Compose

#mysql #docker

1 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Writing a Regular Expression to Target Images Without a Class

#regex #php

5 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Best-ish Practices for Dynamically Prefetching & Prerendering Pages with JavaScript

#performance #javascript

10 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Using the 'posts_where' Filter with WP_Query in WordPress

#wordpress

3 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Preloading JavaScript Assets in WordPress

#javascript #performance #wordpress

6 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Let's Stop Making it Cool to Hate jQuery

#jquery #javascript

5 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Build Your Own Simple Lazy Loading Functionality in WordPress

#wordpress #performance #javascript

6 min read

Alex MacArthur

Aug 23 '19

Building a Lambda Function with Netlify

11 min read

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