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I found myself with the need to toggle between black & white for text color based on whether the background-color of the element was darker or lighter. I didn't know if it could be done, but after just 5 minutes of research, I think I came up with an answer.

Let's stop making up overly complicated ways of explaining react, hooks, and its concepts. There's already a simple way to think about them.

“Knowledge is power” it is said. It is also said that “power tends to corrupt”.

Let’s do our selves a favor and stop using + for string concatenation. Let’s use template literals instead.

We are going to apply Dieter Ram’s ten principles of Good Design to software. Not the end user product — much can be found about that — but to the source code.

The whole job of a class is to ultimately create an object. But JavaScript has one of the simplest, most clear and succinct ways of creating an object, and a familiar dead simple way to do it over and over again in a particular way.

All CSS tools and frameworks seek to tame complex CSS, and they all fail at that goal to one extent or another. We've been going about this all wrong!

Here is why I haven’t used the function keyword in over four years, and I don’t intend to.

Many of the utilities in libraries like lodash are trivially implemented. Let's look at how to do many of them.

Many of the utilities in libraries like lodash have a direct native replacement. Let's look at some of them.