Hi!

Can’t believe that January has gone by so fast. Just in a little bit more than a week I’ll be speaking at the Swetugg conference about how you can build beautiful apps with the new Angular Material. If you are going to the conference then don’t hesitate to join me! It’ll be awesome! If you live in the Stockholm area or are passing by this beautiful city then consider coming to the conference, there’s a ton of great talks and speakers in 4 tracks and 2 days.

Oh! And if you see me around, please say hi! I’d love to hear how you’re using Angular or talk about anything that you’re doing really.

If you can’t come then don’t worry! I’ll be writing a series of articles and doing some recordings so you can enjoy and learn more about Angular Material at your own pace.

Hug! And have a wonderful day!

Hi!

It’s time for the tradition of the yearly reflective summary, a wrap-up blog post on what I’ve achieved the past year, my biggest fails and what I am planning to do in 2017. Here it goes!

Barbaric Tip of the Week is a weekly series whose main purpose is to share tiny bits of knowledge that I find specially useful and interesting.

20th of December… 2016 is drawing to an end… If you are like me you’re already freaking out about all the things that you wanted to do but didn’t. Was, by any change, learning more about functional programming one of those new year resolutions you had last year? Or something you just became more interested in throughout 2016 but you never got around to? Then today is your lucky day because I have something for you that will let you finish 2016 strong or start 2017 with great footing: The marvellous Professor Frisby Introduces Composable Functional JavaScript course.

Brian Lonsdorf brings his Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming to life in these series of great videos on functional programming available as a free course on egghead.io.

The video course is only an hour a half long with a very pragmatic approach driven by code samples. I recommend following along with your own session of jsbin or jsFiddle and tinker with the examples yourself. Hope that you enjoy it! Have an awesome week ahead!

Ever since I started writing the javascriptmancy books I envisioned a beautiful place in the interwebs where I could place not only the book but a host of interactive resources to learn JavaScript. Behold! JavaScript-mancy.com!!!!

At this point you can find all the books that I have written thus far, the value proposition, the backstory, a short bio and most interestingly an interactive sample of the books themselves. Yey!

It doesn’t fulfill my complete vision yet but it is a teeny tiny step in the right direction. Hope you like it!

Twitter followers.

I know I shouldn’t care, I know I shouldn’t feel bad when someone unfollows me nor overly proud or happy when people follow me but I kind of do.

I suppose it is just human nature and trying to fill that basic need to feel valued and validated… but I will have none of it! Twitter, I shall be driven by intrinsic motivation and not by artificial and arbitrary external rewards!! You shall not control me! (tantrum xD)

Since it seems that I cannot do it by sheer willpower (I have tried), I came up with a better idea. What about removing the source of my troubles completely? Out of sight, out of mind right?

And that’s how this chrome extension and this very blog post came about. Are you curious about how to write a chrome extension to run arbitrary code on any given website? Then follow along!