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Salma Alam-Naylor

Oh hai. I’m Salma.

✨ I write code for your entertainment ✨

I’m a software engineer, writer, and live streamer. I help developers build cool stuff with blog posts, tutorial videos, live coding and open source projects. I work at Netlify.

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JS Party JS Party #204

JavaScript will kill you in the Apocalypse

Salma Alam-Naylor joins us this week to share her thesis that JavaScript is best in moderation, and is a liability when creating performant, resilient, and accessible web applications. Salma says we’re drunk on JavaScript, and it’s time we learn how to leverage this powerful web primitive to enhance our web experiences, alongside HTML and CSS, instead of purely relying on JavaScript to completely run the show.

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