At work we have a convention for naming git branches that goes: . I often end up with a pile of branches of the form , and having to switch…

Occasionally, in a moment of dazed wonder...

When it comes to documenting JavaScript code, it’s hard to overstate the convenience of JSDoc. Write a comment - get auto-generated…

Closures can seem like a daunting topic to anyone who’s relatively new to programming. They represent a topic that lies beyond the core…

At some point I stopped trusting my memory. Information I might need to recall later had to get recorded somewhere, or it was as good as…

Setting up the boilerplate to write a React component can be tedious. On its own, making a directory and putting some files in it with some…

There’s a phrase I hear every now and then that always makes me curious about how English will look in the future. The phrase goes like this…

A little while ago I abruptly noticed that dark themes have become really popular. It looks like this development extended past mobile and…

I try my best to not take my mental health for granted, and to be grateful that my brain chemistry allows me to do the things I want while…

I don’t remember who it was that recommended Robert Martin’s Clean Code to me (a fantastic book, but not discussed in this post), yet what I…

If you’re reading this, the odds are pretty good that you’ve had the exquisite delight of travelling by airplane in North America. If you’re…

A post by a Russian Instagrammer showed up on my feed the other day. It contained an interesting metaphor that I had seen...

We were talking about the stifling amount of transhumanist-themed sci-fi shows on Netflix et al. when a friend of mine, who is a big fan of…