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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Programming

Published on: 1/1/2020 - 4 min read

3 things to do to get better at coding

Another decade in the books and as we close out the year, we are all hopefully looking for ways to improve our skills in the year to come.If...

Published on: 12/24/2019 - 4 min read

Regretting my Computer Science degree?

These days you hear every tech startup founder and billion dollar company CEO state that college degrees are so last decade and tech skills...

Computer Science

Published on: 12/16/2019 - 7 min read

How I got started with Computer Science

As corny as it sounds, it all began when I was 5 years old. I'd like to think that this is true for everyone. And that thos...

Javascript

Published on: 12/5/2019 - 5 min read

What exactly is the JAM Stack?

If you are fan of JavaScript then you no doubt have encountered the term JAMStack at some point in your career. In this post I'm going to br...

Published on: 12/2/2019 - 5 min read

I built a website in exchange for cookies

Anybody that really knows me, knows that I have a taste for baked goods. These days as I age (age well), they tend to be of the glute...

Published on: 11/18/2019 - 4 min read

How to create your own code framework

Code re-usability was something that was highly emphasized upon in college. In fact, if there's one thing I remember (and only one thing) it...

Published on: 11/12/2019 - 7 min read

A quick look at my day to day freelance life

It's kind of like Han Solo's mercenary life, but with more sitting and typing. You take on jobs, meet interesting characters, not get paid (...

Javascript

Published on: 11/8/2019 - 3 min read

Checking if users are offline with navigator.onLine

"Must be online to continue". "You have been disconnected". "Error: Status code: YSLFJLFJSKDFJS"We have all seen that message appear at some...

Published on: 11/6/2019 - 5 min read

The confusing search to find out who makes web standards - part 1

Just before beginning to write this post, I had an entirely different post in mind. I was going to write about the W3C (The World Wide Web C...

Javascript

Published on: 11/4/2019 - 5 min read

The simplest way to create dynamic modal pop-ups in JavaScript

Modal windows are an important UI/UX tool when it comes to pretty much any type of application, whether web, mobile or even your local ATM m...

Published on: 11/1/2019 - 5 min read

Programming the perfect dashboard

I've coded things of all shapes in sizes throughout my years. Everything from small landing pages to email templates to fully custom pa...

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