Setting up macOS for JS development
Three years ago MacBooks were in a pretty bad spot for me and I switched to Ubuntu, later Pop!_OS. It was a fun ride. While coding I felt very productive because the OS is so low i...
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Steps to Convert JavaScript to TypeScript
I've been slowly falling in love with TypeScript. I have a thousand little JS projects. Small prototypes with minimal tests and documentation. Often just to help me get a thing don...
It's Almost 2014 and We Are Still Committing Broken Code
Dispite testcases, syntax errors still find their way into our commits. - Maybe it was a change in that bash script that wasn't covered by tests. Too bad our deploys relied on it....
Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App
Yesterday I wrote my first Firefox OS App.
Loosely Typed Code Deserves Triple Equality
In loosely typed languages such as JavaScript or PHP, using == to compare values is bad practice because it doesn't account for type, hence false == 0 == '' == null == undefined, e...
Highlevel Testing With CasperJS
If you've written a webapp and you want to ensure that critical parts such as the signup process stay working, the best would be to have an actual user go through that process ever...
Revisiting Spaces and Tabs
This article in 50 words: I used to prefer spaces vs tabs, now I don't care so much, think it's more important that you can easily switch on a per-project basis. Have some thoughts...
Create Youtube-Like IDs With PHP/Python/Javascript/Java/SQL
IDs are often numbers. Unfortunately there are only 10 digits to work with, so if you have a lot of records, IDs tend to get very lengthy. For computers that's OK. But human beings...
Better Performance With mod_deflate
I used to use Dean Edwards Javascript Packer a lot to compress my Javascript sources. Libraries of 100kB could easily shrink to 30kB and that saves load times & bandwidth. A go...