JavaScript

Teaching My Teleprompter to Listen

May 1, 2026

My open-source teleprompter now listens to you and scrolls along while you read. No clickers, no foot pedals, and no awkward right-arrow taps!

Edge.js Template Plugin for 11ty

March 2, 2026

Ever felt frustrated with HTML templates like Pug, Handlebars, Liquid, or Nunjucks? If you know JavaScript, you might want to give Edge.js a try! I built a plugin for 11ty and converted my entire blog. TLDR: I like it!

HopCounter: Build a Retro Page View Counter with Bunny Edge Scripting

May 16, 2025

Learn to build a retro page view counter using Bunny.net Edge Scripting!

Build a Command-Line Application With Deno 2.0

November 9, 2024

Learn to build a command-line application using Deno version 2.0!

My Open-Source Desktop Teleprompter Built with Electron

February 24, 2024

I wasn't happy with the teleprompter apps I found, so I built my own! Maybe you'd like to use it, too!

Three Ways to Share Node.js Modules Across Multiple Projects

May 14, 2021

Three options for splitting Node.js code into shared libraries across multiple projects, with tradeoffs between convenience and portability.

Create PDFs with Node.js and Puppeteer

February 6, 2020

I love to play music, especially in a band. There's something amazing about the synergy of multiple people harmonizing voices and…

Build a Secure Node.js Application with JavaScript Async Await Using Hapi

January 18, 2019

At the core of the JavaScript language is its asynchronous programming model. Unfortunately, dealing with callback functions has long been…

Makin' Bacon with Node.js, Hapi, and Vue

July 18, 2018

I recently created a new demo for my Node.js Crash Course talk that I've given at several conferences. This application is a "bacon ipsum"…

Choose Your Own Framework: The Curse of JavaScript Fatigue

June 13, 2018

How will your project die? Choose from 2,147,483,647 possible endings!

Do you hate JavaScript?

February 13, 2017

If you follow me on Twitter you know that I poke fun at JavaScript quite a bit. Someone recently asked me,

Ahoy! Parse ye Node.js command args with yargs!

April 20, 2015

Recently I was working on a code sample in Node.js and thought to meself, "T'wouldn't it be grand to support me some command-line args for…