1. Strings are definitely strings right? Well… kind of: You’ve probably heard that in Javascript “everything’s an object” right? In fact strings are both objects and strings at the same time:

1. Adding console logs to render expressions — If you wanna log the props to an expression style component but can’t be bothered to convert it, put the log in parentheses then add chopsticks ||: Note. you have to use the or operator because console.log returns undefined. 2. Trace a function’s call with the Error object If you’ve no idea where a function’s being called from, log…

ChatGPT was released by OpenAI to crazed excitement from the dev community a couple of months back. The first I heard of it was just before Christmas, the Hacker Newsletter — an awesome newsletter btw — had it featured as well as including at least 7 other posts about it…

From a programmer who was home educated — Me and my partner watch a documentary series called Child Genius that follows a yearly competition to find the UK's smartest under 10 year old. The fascination with smart kids — how smart they are, what learning styles they use, how they behave, what their parents are like — as…

How it’s often useful to learn things no one asks you to — They’re used to structure Blockchains, which is why you might have heard of them, but also you might not know that Git uses Merkle Trees to store commits and compare diffs between files. In the corporate world, aka at work, the conceptual stuff tends to take a back seat. I’m…

Doing the jobs no one else wants to do You ever seen the movie Social Network or watched the series Silicon Valley? These two shows basically summed up how I imaged getting into web development would be.

Vue v3 has been updated to include the new Composition API, which, like React’s hooks update a couple of years back, is fully embracing functional programming patterns.

And I found it in a box on the street — You don’t want to hear me rant about smartphones, you know about them, you know they’re unhealthy, tech billionaires don’t let their children have them, they’re built by 3rd world slaves, they listen to everything you say, they track you wherever you go… the list goes on. But the fact…

I just had a presentation at work from a backend PHP dev who’d done a couple of tutorials on Typescript and thought it was great! His presentation ended with the comment that our company should start using Typescript in all our frontend projects to a chorus of “yay!” from all…