author here, thx for pointing these out! I was simultaneously working on some CSS for my blog on localhost and when I looked up some references to older articles to put in my post, I looked them up in the version of my site that was running locally and forgot to change the links lol. Whoops. Fixed now — thanks again!
author here: this is a great point, thx for pointing it out! also love this summation
> We are effectively writing in a fictitious language and pass it through a series of transformations until we finally get syntactically valid JavaScript