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A robot called me last night, and I'm sort of okay with it

Google impressed everyone with it's project Duplex a few months back. We were glued to our screens as we saw a wonderful human-like conver...Read more

February 01 2019 - 7 min read

How I Lost A Stable Online Community

Ever since I learned to crawl my way around the web world I've been building and coding any idea that comes to my mind. Mainly websites for...Read more

March 29 2014 - 4 min read

The pros and cons of attending a coding bootcamp

Traditionally in the past, getting into the field of programming required several years of college education, some form of student debt...Read more

May 06 2019 - 5 min read

Our code is getting old and outdated and we need to fix it soon

Hear me out. I love StackOverflow and Google. Alot. It has made my job overall much less frustrating and has made for some short work days. ...Read more

January 14 2019 - 5 min read

Bubble Sort algorithm in JavaScript

Sorting is a common task that is required of programmers many a time. You need to sort things such as search result sets to standard lists o...Read more

October 27 2019 - 3 min read

Do you think like a programmer?

A popular thought experiment that I often give my students who are early in their programming careers is the following: There is a basket i...Read more

December 10 2018 - 4 min read

Why you don't need more than one programming language

More is usually better, right? More cookies, is noticeably better than less cookies. Unless those cookies are bad. In which case, nobody wan...Read more

December 26 2018 - 5 min read

How to copy to clipboard in JavaScript

Sure you can always just highlight text and then ctrl+c, but sometimes due to text constraints (large text) or just for ease of use to your ...Read more

July 06 2019 - 2 min read

Useful JavaScript ES6 concepts to start using right now

If you have not kept up with the many changes that JavaScript has gone through during the past few years, then maybe now is the time to inco...Read more

January 17 2019 - 7 min read

My top 5 interview tips for coders

Graduation season is here and as such, many new young coders are making their way through the job market hoping to strike it rich. And the k...Read more

June 18 2019 - 5 min read

Galaxy Fit Review and First Impressions

This week I got my hands on the brand new Galaxy Fit from Samsung, which can be considered a competitor to the Fitbit Charge 3, but a...Read more

June 04 2019 - 7 min read

How the Spread operator works in ES6

The Spread operator is one of those concepts in JavaScript that, while you appreciate what it does, you just can't ever quite seem to find t...Read more

May 10 2019 - 3 min read

Mastering the interview: The Fibonacci Sequence in JavaScript

One of the most common questions that a developer will get asked during a live coding interview is to give an implementation of the Fib...Read more

May 14 2019 - 3 min read

How I got better at coding

I've been a programmer now for the better part of 15 years. In between that time I've taken on other roles, such project manager, Chief Tech...Read more

May 17 2019 - 6 min read

The one thing to bring to your next coding interview

This won't be one of those "bring your best personality" posts. That's important too. But this one is more practical and applies to pretty m...Read more

June 26 2019 - 3 min read

3 things you should do when getting started as a programmer

The hardest step you will ever take, is the first one. The rest will just naturally happen as you gain more and more momentum in one directi...Read more

May 25 2019 - 4 min read