Developer slash artist Alex Miller joins Jerod & Amelia to discuss the challenge he faced after deciding to eschew fancy frameworks and libraries in favor of vanilla JS to build an interactive essay called Grid World for the html review.

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Featuring:

Alex Miller – Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Amelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

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