kaidez - Web Development Tutorials & JavaScript Coding Tips

I started a front end engineer job at Principal Financial Group...and I really like it!!!

I built a GitHub triage tracker with the Claude API — here's what I learned.

Running Claude Code's /insights command led me down a rabbit hole, but I came out the other side with better package management and automated build reporting.

What I learned building two VS Code extensions with the Claude API: stateless conversations, TypeScript integration, and system design.

I spent 15 years in music sales and marketing and watched the industry get disrupted.

Redesigned kaidez.com after 8 years using Eleventy, Claude AI & Cline.

A Stanford study shows is AI hurting entry-level tech jobs.

Quick thoughts on building a small search autocomplete tool.

Six things I learned when looking for a front end web developer job in 2022.

JavaScript developers can avoid using frameworks and libraries if the have to, but too many developers avoid them for the wrong reasons.

kaidez updates his JavaScript functional programming/average temperature post to use .filter() instead of an inner loop.

kaidez publishes his 101st post and uses it to reflect on what he's learned as a web developer.

Use JavaScript functional programming to display average temperatures in certain cities.

Kai takes a simplistic approach to updating his blog, using Jekyll, GitHub Pages, BEM CSS, a little bit of React, webpack and Yarn.

React/Redux are part of JavaScript's progression to a full application language.

Use JavaScript functional programming to set click-to-link functionality on a set of elements.

Use JavaScript functional programming to format dates with the Date() object.

Learn JavaScript unit testing by creating smaller functions with functional programming & testing them with QUnit.

Random notes on my past & present experiences in looking for a front end web developer job in 2017.

kaidez’s click to Tweet tutorial is updated to be shorter, more readable, provide information faster & demonstrate some window.location JavaScript tricks.

Tips for high schoolers wanting to be web designers/developers while looking at the state of technology education and hiring in 2016.

jQuery allows for too much productivity for web developers to stop using it completely.

TypeScript recreates the Duck Simulator/Strategy pattern described in the 'Head First Design Patterns' book.

Watch how I use npm run to run HTML, CSS and JavaScript build tasks.

How I set up Babel, Browserify, Babelify & Babel ES2015 presets for web development.

kaidez.com uses underscores to create a custom Swiss-style Wordpress theme for his blog's new design. webpack and gulp manage the JS/CSS build process.

Tutorial for dynamically creating a click to Tweet link with JavaScript and the window.location object…no hard-coding.

The best way to learn web development is to try and write at least one piece of code a day, especially if the code is JavaScript.

After almost ten years, I'm leaving Revlon to pursue a exciting new opportunity.

A demo of how to optimize CSS with Gulp, Grunt and tasks like uncss and critical path css.

kaidez created a WordPress site for a Montclair, NJ hair salon, with a strong focus on optimizing the site for local SEO.

kaidez used Node to create a tool for scaffolding out web development projects.

kaidez's old AJAX tutorial was updated. jQuery AJAX is discussed in depth and there's a short discussion on JavaScript Promises.

Use jQuery.filter() & Attribute Selectors with HTML5 data attributes to filter out specific content on a click.

Excellent book that explains complicated JavaScript concepts like API design in painstaking clarity.

Use mouse clicks to load information stored in data attributes onto a web page in a cross-browser compatible way.

kaidez recorded Ember.js and Backbone.js courses for lynda.com, a leading online learning company.

kaidez developed the RevlonProBrands.com site using GitHub Atom, Jade, OOCSS, Modernizr’s yepnope functionality, Gulp & Grunt.

A Web Components demo using just templates and Shadow DOM, mostly templates.

The Napster documentary recaps the company’s story and the atmosphere it created, but it doesn't tell the whole story.

jQuery-powered search functionality for a Jekyll site with fallback code if JS or CSS is disabled.

Learn how to use RequireJS in WordPress.

kaidez's Git/GitHub tutorial is updated to be shorter, provide information faster and by providing 2 new links to the learning resource list

kaidez.com uses Jekyll as a blog engine, Grunt as a task runner, RequireJS for modular JavaScript management, & Bower for package management

A quick update about the status of kaidez.com, including the announcing of a new, upcoming site design.

CSS3 media queries can help sites perform better in Google search results and the W3C officially recommends them as a web standard.

Get quick answers first, then learn how Git works with GitHub.

Great JavaScript book for beginners covering the fundamentals in detail, focusing on how to use them in web applications, not just websites.

How to create/change page elements off-DOM with JavaScript.

kaidez discusses what courses and sessions he'll be checking out at the 2012 Fluent JavaScript Conference.