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See, here in the US we’ve just entered the formless grey voids that were once our calendars: the hazy expanse between Thanksgiving and the start of the new year. From here on out, I imagine that all of us will find ourselves feeling increasingly untethered from the ol’ inexorable march. Sooner or later — impossible to say which is which — the concepts of both “time” and “structured clothing” will begin to lose all meaning. Navigating the holidays would be tricky enough without doing it asynchronously, but alas: here we are with our microtask queues full-to-bursting, and now problems have two . we
I may not be able to help you navigate The Season, but I can grant you a boon to aid you in the task of ensuring that time flows freely forth. As of today, we’re making the entire module on asynchronous JavaScript free for everyone. It’s a tidy, self-contained module on working asynchronously, covering everything you’ll need to make sense of creating and consuming Promises, the nature of thenables, and working with async/ await. We may not be able to put time itself back together, but at least we can get our call stacks back in order, yeah? You gotta take the wins where you can get ‘em.
And hey, don’t forget that there’s a Black Friday sale in effect for all Piccalilli courses — including the brand new Mindful Design — as we speak, you’ll save £60 (~$80) on any Piccalilli course and you’ll get a coupon code that gives you 50% off future course purchases.
There’s still a Black Friday semi-anti-sale of my own design in effect for JavaScript for Everyone, too. Use the code JS4EDONATE at checkout (or use this link) and you'll pay £20 (~$25) more than the Black Friday sales price, with the difference going Resilient Coders — a tuition-free coding bootcamp that teaches web development to people of color here in Boston. You’ll still get that discount code for half off future Piccalilli courses, too. Not only is it still a great deal, but it gives us a chance to help people fulfill their promise.