Hello Readers, Greetings from a chilly November day in New York. The kind of day that forces you to forget that Fall is after Summer, and to remember that Fall is before Winter. The kind of day that makes one glad they spent several years in Vermont and now have several tricks up their sleeve. Namely: warm socks and vigorous walking . But I digress. The first 'tale from the other side' that I wanted to share is actually the one I was most excited about (in real time!) when I learned about it. Spoiler alert from the title: it's the event.stopPropagation() javascript method. So...what the heck is it? Well, here's a few things about it: It's a native Javascript method, so there's no extra libraries, packages, components, syntaxes, etc to import. It's in the same 'family' as event.preventDefault() , so those familiar with other common event handlers may already have a sense of where it can be called. Think about all the ways you could wa