Modern JavaScript is amazing. Modern JavaScript is trash

Way back in March, I announced that I was working on an advanced version of my Vanilla JS Academy.
I originally hoped to launch it early summer. Then late summer. Then early fall. I built 80 percent of it, threw it out, and built it again. Then I threw th… Read more

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