Published inJavaScript in Plain English·May 10, 2021Rewriting Deno’s Testing ToolsFor the past month and some change, actually might’ve been two months already (It takes a day to write a proof of concept, weeks to land it). I’ve been busy re-thinking Deno’s testing tools. We’ve had a test runner since before I got involved and it worked just fine. …Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Published inCommit Log·Oct 4, 2020Member-onlyDon’t Just Contribute To Open Source, ParticipateFor the last couple of years, DigitalOcean has been running Hacktoberfest with the intent to contribute to open source by giving free t-shirts to people who send pull requests to open source repositories. While it’s a nice idea it misses the mark and in practice the net results is sponsored…Open Source2 min readOpen Source2 min read
Jun 17, 2020Member-onlySo What Exactly Is DenoA New Contributor’s Perspective — Deno pushed out it’s first major release a not too long ago generating quite a few hot-takes. This isn’t going to be a hot-take but a look at what Deno is, where is it at right now and where it could go from a new contributor’s to perspective. So the…Deno5 min readDeno5 min read
Dec 31, 2019Member-onlyCoding My First Game in My 30sMaking of Hyperlink — Back in the 90s when I was a kid I dabbled around a bit with BASIC on the Commadore 64 whenever I got the chance to jump in front of one at someone else’s house. I wouldn’t really call it programming as it was more like data entry. …Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Dec 27, 2019Member-onlyA Byte of Advice for New ProgrammersI leave my direct-messages open so I get a lot of questions on Twitter from budding developers; “Can I ask you a question about programming?” is a common one often followed up with the same question repeated again some time later. One thing no one ever asks me is general…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Nov 8, 2019Member-onlyHello, GoA whimsical introduction to Go — I’ve taken a liking to Go, the key reason being it’s a simple language. But this leaves you, the developer, with less options for being clever. If you have to be clever to write a program, you’ll have to be twice as clever to maintain and debug it. So to…Golang4 min readGolang4 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Oct 30, 2019Member-onlyLesser-Known JavaScript HazardsArrow functions and object literals, bindings, shallow sets, and more — JavaScript has been getting a lot of new, sugary features ever since we got over Harmony. While more features can allow us to write readable, high-quality code, it’s also easy to go overboard with what’s new and shiny and run into some of the potential pitfalls. Let’s go over some…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Oct 30, 2019Member-onlyKeeping It Simple With the JavaScript ConsoleDiscover a great debugging tool — the console — I’ll admit it — I don’t always use a debugger to figure out what’s going wrong in my program. If my mouse clicks start printing documents down the hall, then it’s time to break out the most powerful of all debugging tools: the console. The reason is quite simple. When…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
Jul 31, 2019Member-onlyWhy Dark Gray is Brighter than Gray In CSSYou’ve might not have noticed this as it’s a very subtle bit of trivia but in your browser there are pre-defined colors which aren’t what they seem. …Web Development2 min readWeb Development2 min read
Jun 5, 2019Member-onlyHow To Design for the Web in 2019The web moves fast; keep up! — I wrote about how to design for the modern web way back in 2018, but the web moves forward quickly, so those guidelines are already obsolete and outdated as more modern conventions have become mainstream. Let's break down and go through the most important design principles of designing for the…Web Design5 min readWeb Design5 min read
