Chris Smith Hello World Hello. 👋 I'm Chris, a front-end web developer from the UK. I blog about front end web development, design and user experience. I've been making web pages since 1999 and blogging since 2008. You can find me on CodePen, Mastodon and X. Come and say hello. Latest blog posts 04 Sep Simplifying dates in JavaScript 31 Jul Replacing jQuery UI datepicker with HTML date input 25 Jul Code formatting and style guides 25 Jul A dedicated pull request channel 19 Jul Converting jQuery to vanilla JavaScript with an AI assistant Big list of all posts