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Writing many small functions instead of a few large ones is common wisdom. It took a book from the 90s for me to understand why that’s better.

Refactoring old code shows you how much you have grown since you wrote it. Sometimes, that’s just the boost you need to unlock creativity.

The bite-sized tips I started sharing on Twitter show how code can be improved gradually. You can read them all on this site now.

Annoyed with how browsers log variables to the console? We can access and do more useful things with them.

The US keyboard layout puts many of the symbols we need a lot when coding on their own dedicated keys.