It's Just A Function

Understand whether push, unshift, and equivalent functions using spread syntax, mutate an array or create a copy.

How to approach coding assignments to maximize your learning, without over-reliance on AI, while still getting some assistance.

Write a function that returns a natural language relative time string representing the difference between two dates

Using simple functions to tell interesting stories about dates and times, like formatting how long ago something happened in natural language terms.

Functions aren't the only thing in programming. But they're a pretty big part of it all.

Understanding the roles of variables should makes programming easier to learn, but I didn't find this path as interesting as I thought

Variables usually have specific jobs, and most fall into a simple taxonomy of roles. Understanding these roles makes programming easier to learn.

On the joys and dangers of bespokeness, tradeoffs, and reasonable default decisions

Web components / custom elements are an easy way to create a modular architecture in vanilla js

I prefer to add automated tests early, to enable safer and faster iteration

'My most important engineering tips: build in small steps, and share your work early and often!'

You need only two tools to practice writing functions: a tool to write code, and a tool to run the code.

Welcome to Just a Function! Here's a Hello World post.