BaseScripts — Practical Code. Powerful Foundations
Build Faster with Scripts You Can Learn From and Use
Laurence Svekis 
🟦 JavaScript Deep Dive — Issue #6 How JavaScript Engines Optimize Your Code A practical V8 (and JS engine) deep dive every serious JS dev should understand Most JavaScript developers write code assuming the engine will “just handle it.” And often, it does. But once performance matters — large apps, data-heavy UIs, animations, AI workloads, … Read more
Clean Up a Google Doc with Apps Script: Bullets → Dashes, Headings Down a Level, and No More Blank-Line Spam If you’ve ever copied content into Google Docs from a website, PDF, or another editor, you’ve probably seen the usual mess: This post walks through three simple Google Apps Script functions that clean up an … Read more
🌟 VIBE LEARNING — ISSUE #11 (ADVANCED) Learning at a Higher Level: From Information to Thinking Why advanced learners focus on judgment, not just knowledge. 👋 Welcome to Advanced Vibe Learning Up to now, Vibe Learning has helped you: Now we move into advanced territory. This phase is not about learning more content.It’s about learning … Read more
Key Ideas, Frameworks, and Systems from the First 10 Issues Learning has fundamentally changed. We now live in a world where artificial intelligence can explain, quiz, challenge, coach, critique, and adapt to us in real time. Yet most people still use AI the same way they use a search engine—asking shallow questions and getting shallow … Read more
🚀 Vibe Coding — Issue #3 AI-Assisted Performance, Refactoring & Production Guardrails JavaScript • HTML • CSS • Performance • Maintainability • Shipping With Confidence If Issue #1 was mindsetand Issue #2 was rapid execution, Issue #3 is about control. This is where advanced frontend developers separate fast demos from production-ready systems. AI can help … Read more
🌟 VIBE LEARNING — ISSUE #10 How to Become a Self-Sustaining Learner With AI Design a lifelong system for growth, curiosity, and mastery. 👋 Welcome to the Final Issue of Season 1 If you’ve followed Vibe Learning from the beginning, you now have something powerful: This final issue answers one last, critical question: How do … Read more
🟦 JavaScript Deep Dive — Issue #5 Beyond Promises: Advanced Async & Concurrency Patterns in JavaScript How modern JS handles real-world async workloads at scale Promises and async/await made JavaScript easier to read — but they didn’t magically solve concurrency, coordination, cancellation, or backpressure. As apps grow more complex (AI calls, streaming APIs, real-time UIs, … Read more
📘 Lesson 3 — Build Your First Google Apps Script Web App (HTML + APIs) Blog Post #3 in the Apps Script + APIs + Gemini Series Up until now, you’ve been running Apps Script functions from the editor or triggering them from Sheets and Docs. In this lesson, everything changes. You’ll build a real … Read more
🚀 Vibe Coding — Issue #2 Advanced Frontend Vibing: Ship Faster With AI, Without Shipping Bugs JavaScript • HTML • CSS • Rapid Prototyping • Iteration Loops • Testing Discipline If Issue #1 was about the mindset, Issue #2 is about execution. Advanced frontend developers don’t need AI to “write code.”They need AI to compress … Read more
📘 Lesson 2 Blog Post #2 in the Apps Script + APIs + Gemini Series One of the biggest milestones in learning Google Apps Script is moving from simply calling an API… to actually using its data inside Google Workspace. In this lesson, you’ll learn: By the end, you’ll know how to turn any JSON … Read more