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In what has now become somewhat of a tradition for me, I’m looking back on the past year and digging up stats about the blog and my career. This was definitely an …

The end of year is drawing close and the JavaScript Developer Survey has now ended. The survey received an unimagined amount of replies and I’m excited to share …

Following the footsteps of Alex R. Young and his retired dailyjs.com blog, I’ve put together a survey about JavaScript usage similar to those he used to host on …

In previous articles, you’ve learned about how to use ServiceWorker, the different strategies that you can leverage to serve content offline and faster, and all …

Last week I wrote an article about a caching strategy for progressive networking that uses a cache first and then goes to the networking, sharing messages between web …

I’ve been toying with ServiceWorker for a while. The single most complicated issue when it comes to ServiceWorker has been dealing with caching in a …

There’s a few different ways you can subscribe to read Pony Foo. What’s your favorite?

Almost since day one you could follow Pony Foo using the RSS feed. …

While not the most amusingly named feature of the web platform, everything seems to point at ServiceWorker being the most significant addition to the web platform since …

My ES6 in Depth series consists of 24 articles covering most syntax changes and features coming in ES6. This article aims to summarize all of those, providing you with …

I’ve recently upgraded Pony Foo to use the https protocol, something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. It’s super easy to do so, and …

I’ve been bitten a few times by dependencies using semver ranges such as ^1.0.1 where the dependency introduced a “non-breaking” change that ended …

During the redesign I was faced with a problem and I had to rethink the way I inline CSS in my blog, so I figured it’d be a good time to write about it in more …

I’ve been asked to review the JSCharting enterprise charting library, and given that I’ve recently dabbled in visualizations I felt like this was a great …

I wanted to take a step back from all of the ES6 articles that have been popping up on Pony Foo lately to talk about a bug I came across last week. As I mentioned …

Pony Foo’s design remained largely the same throughout its history so far, as I never really spent a lot of time on its design. Today I’m thrilled to …

Welcome back to ES6 – “Dude, we already had those!” – in Depth series. If you’ve never been around here before, start with A Brief …

Welcome back to ES6 – “Oh, good. It’s not another article about Unicode” – in Depth series. If you’ve never been around here …

Yo. Here’s another edition of ES6 – “I can’t believe they killed off Stringer Bell” – in Depth series. If you’ve never …

Howdy. You’re reading ES6 – “I vehemently Object to come up with a better tagline” – in Depth series. If you’ve never been …

Hello traveler! This is ES6 – "Oh cool, I like Array" – in Depth series. If you’ve never been around here before, start with A Brief …

You’ve made it! Here’s another article in the ES6 – “What? I’d rather develop for IE6” – in Depth series. If …

Hey there! Glad you’re here in time for ES6 – “Back to School” – in Depth. Never heard of it? Refer to A Brief History of ES6 Tooling. …

Oh hey – I was just casually getting ready, didn’t see you there! Welcome to another edition of ES6 – “Oh. Good. We survived traps” …

Hey there! This is ES6 – “Traps? Again?” – in Depth. Looking for other ES6 goodness? Refer to A Brief History of ES6 Tooling. Then, make your …

Welcome to ES6 – “Please, not again” – in Depth. Looking for other ES6 goodness? Refer to A Brief History of ES6 Tooling. Then, make your way …

Cheers, please come in. This is ES6 – “Elaine, you gotta have a baby!” – in Depth. What? Never heard of it? Check out A Brief History of ES6 …

Welcome once again to ES6 – “I can’t take this anymore” – in Depth. New here? Start with A Brief History of ES6 Tooling. Then, make …

Hello, this is ES6 – “Please make them stop” – in Depth. New here? Start with A Brief History of ES6 Tooling. Then, make your way through …

Buon giorno! Willkommen to ES6 – “I can’t believe this is yet another installment” – in Depth. If you have no idea how you got here or …

This is ES6 in Depth, the longest-running article series in the history of Pony Foo! Trapped in the ES5 bubble? Welcome! Let me get you started with destructuring, …

This is yet another edition of ES6 in Depth. First time here? Welcome! So far we covered destructuring, template literals, arrow functions, the spread operator and rest …

This is yet another edition of ES6 in Depth. First time here? Welcome! So far we covered destructuring, template literals, arrow functions, the spread operator and rest …

Welcome to ES6 in Depth. Are you new here? You might want to learn about destructuring, template literals, arrow functions, the spread operator and rest parameters, or …

Once again, this is ES6 in Depth. If you haven’t set foot on this series before, you might want to learn about destructuring, template literals, arrow functions, …

Welcome to yet another installment of ES6 in Depth on Pony Foo. Previous ones covered destructuring, template literals, and most recently, arrow functions. Today …

The daily saga of es6-in-depth articles continues. Today we’ll be discussing Arrow Functions. In previous articles we’ve covered destructuring and template …

Yesterday we’ve covered ES6 destructuring in depth, as well as some of its most common use cases. Today we’ll be moving to template literals. What they …

I’ve briefly mentioned a few ES6 features (and how to get started with Babel) in the React article series I’ve been writing about, and now I want to focus …

I wrote a few articles about React and ES6 these last few days, and today I wanted to add a bit more of context as to why I seem to be super into ES6 all of sudden. …

I’ve spent a few days working with JSX and React and I have mixed feelings about them. React is pretty neat, but I find that they made some very unusual choices …

We’ve been hard at work last week analyzing how to build a universal app using React. First we looked at the bare minimum needed to run Babel through Browserify …

Yesterday, we learned about how to set up a build process for an universal ES6 React app using Babel, and how to have that React app render “universally” …

I finally got around to trying out React, and this blog post will detail my initial impressions as well as a tutorial on how to make your React apps universal from the …

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

Browser testing has been a pain for a decade now. The landscape is showing a lot of promise nowadays, and I wanted to share the approach to client-side testing …

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

There’s plenty of performance optimization techniques in web development. Particularly, if you look into each portion of the web stack in detail. In the …

For the past few months I’ve been speaking at conferences about web performance. Unfortunately, none of those awesome conferences have published their talk videos

These are short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish one of these every weekday. I’d …

I’ve been toying with the idea of releasing short-form “thoughts”, in addition to the usual longer-form articles in the blog. The goal is to publish …

Peter-Paul Koch – or @ppk – has once again published a rupturing article titled “Stop pushing the web forward” that is surely going to set …

Most often, web UI libraries fall under one of two categories. They may be part of a “framework”, or a grouping of UI components that share an appearance, …

I held a survey last monday where I asked for feedback about the kinds of things you want me to write about. It was quite useful, and one of the topics that seem to …

I’ve blogged very little about Taunus since I first released it, roughly a year ago. Back then, it only powered ponyfoo.com, but now there’s a few cases in …

Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk) recently wrote an article that generated noticeable turmoil. One of the best responses was Jeremy Keith (@adactio)'s article, …

Last monday I published an open-source library to easily take control of drag & drop in the front-end, dragula, and it has amassed over 2000 stars on GitHub in under …

For the past few months I’ve developed quite the number of front-end modules. These range from UI components to utility libraries, silly games, and everything in …

Last time around, we discussed how to create an AMI for every deployment: a crucial step in enabling you to leverage deployment immutability. This time around …

A correcter title for this series would be something along the lines of “Automating autoscaled zero-downtime immutable deployments using plain old bash, Packer, …

Earlier today, Tom Dale published an article sharing his views on the whole “server-side vs client-side rendered apps” debacle. I was tempted to call this …

For quite some time I’ve been wanting some sort of input that dealt with user-submitted tags in a reasonable way. I wanted this input to still be half-decent when …

The upcoming SharedWorker API allows to transmit data across iframes and even browser tabs or windows. It landed in Chrome years ago, and not so long ago in Firefox, but …