The story of why my website is entirely hand-coded in HTML is a short and not very interesting one. Between me and CoPilot it's just faster than installing and configuring a bunch of build tools.

In Scope, Functions and Closures we learned that JavaScript has first class functions and saw examples of functions that both took functions as arguments and returned functions. As with so many things there's a term for functions that can either take a function as an argument or return a function. Such functions are called Higher Order Functions.

It's not my intention to repeat the excellent explanations of others on the subjects of scope, functions and closures (some linked below). Instead this is meant to be a quick code focused reference for the occasions in which I find myself able to share what I've learned with others.