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How to natively lazy load images on your website to improve performance
Published on: 6/20/2020 - 4 min read
How to natively lazy load images on your website to improve performance
Most websites are heavily comprised of images and photos these days. And the camera resolutions are only getting better. Images used to be i...
Methods to Keep a Macbook in Good Shape
Published on: 6/6/2020 - 4 min read
Methods to Keep a Macbook in Good Shape
Macbooks excel when it comes to durability. However, there will still come a time when you notice that the overall performance has drop...
College degree vs coding bootcamp and which is right for you?
Programming
Published on: 5/25/2020 - 6 min read
College degree vs coding bootcamp and which is right for you?
This is one the most popular question that I get asked from people looking to get into web development.Should I go to college for 5% of my h...
How to avoid enormous network payloads
Web Development
Published on: 5/21/2020 - 5 min read
How to avoid enormous network payloads
Performance on the web is important in order to provide a fast and smooth overall web surfing experience to your site visitors....
My web design process
Published on: 5/19/2020 - 5 min read
My web design process
Web design is one of those things that is both personal but yet also needs to be very functional. At least, it should be aiming to be those ...
How to use the developer console like a pro
Published on: 5/19/2020 - 5 min read
How to use the developer console like a pro
The console window in a browsers developer tools is more than just a long list of red strings letting you know that something has gone wrong...
Working with the 'template' tag in HTML5
HTML
Published on: 5/9/2020 - 2 min read
Working with the 'template' tag in HTML5
Templates are reusable chunks of HTML that are ignored by the HTML rendering engine in the browser, so they will not appear in your web page...
What freelancing in 2020 might look like
Published on: 5/4/2020 - 4 min read
What freelancing in 2020 might look like
Tens of thousands of businesses around the world have been forced to shut their doors due to recent events. Many of those will not be able t...
Why is everyone suddenly talking about COBOL
Published on: 5/2/2020 - 6 min read
Why is everyone suddenly talking about COBOL
If you have been following the news lately then you might have heard that the current strain on our government websites has caused a massive...
A look at VPN's and why you probably need one
Published on: 4/30/2020 - 6 min read
A look at VPN's and why you probably need one
VPN's or Virtual Private Networks are not new by any means, but they are gaining more attention from the general public, particularly with t...
Working with default function parameters in JavaScript
Javascript
Published on: 4/30/2020 - 2 min read
Working with default function parameters in JavaScript
Default function parameters are a great addition to the JavaScript specification as of ES2015 that allows us to give a default starting value to named parameters in a function....
How to go about starting your freelancing career
Published on: 3/17/2020 - 5 min read
How to go about starting your freelancing career
Maybe you've considered the possibility of branching out on your own and starting your own business to break free from the office grind. But...
Are we wasting too much CSS?
Published on: 3/10/2020 - 7 min read
Are we wasting too much CSS?
Most of my coding life is spent in the web development world, and as such, I get to generate a substantial amount of CSS on a daily basis. T...
3 quick hacks for better coding comments
Published on: 3/6/2020 - 5 min read
3 quick hacks for better coding comments
I have read many comments in my days. Some were very much helpful and made my workday a breeze. While others were cryptic messages from the ...
What is my current tech stack?
Published on: 3/2/2020 - 3 min read
What is my current tech stack?
Your tech stack is your primary toolkit when it comes to writing code and creating software. It is typically the very first one that you sta...
Working with Maps in ECMAScript 6
Javascript
Published on: 2/25/2020 - 3 min read
Working with Maps in ECMAScript 6
In my last post I went over the Set() data structure that was introduced with ECMAScript 6. Today I will be going over t...
Working with Sets in JavaScript
Javascript
Published on: 2/18/2020 - 3 min read
Working with Sets in JavaScript
ECMAScript 6 introduced the new Set type into its toolset. What are Set's? Essentially they are an ordered list of values that hav...
3 things to avoid at your next coding interview
Career
Published on: 1/25/2020 - 5 min read
3 things to avoid at your next coding interview
I have interviewed a fair number of potential programmers during my years and have turned many of them down for various reasons. There are q...
Are programmer's becoming obsolete?
Programming
Published on: 1/21/2020 - 4 min read
Are programmer's becoming obsolete?
No doubt you have seen the ads online for the latest "no-code" web development tools, such as WebFlow, and wondered if programmer's were bec...
HTTP cookies are getting a bad rep
Published on: 1/13/2020 - 4 min read
HTTP cookies are getting a bad rep
The internet for the most part is a stateless system of information getting transferred through a medium to countless nodes. Once you leave ...