One of the joys of programming for me has always been learning and discovery. I loved the idea of digging deeper and deeper into a topic or language or a framework to learn more and become a better developer. In a way, being a programmer is like being in an RPG (especially one like Morrowind […]
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Every 6 months to a year, I like to write a post that reflects back on what I’ve learned, where I plan on heading, and how that compares to my original plan. Without further ado, time to look at what’s happened. Goals more app development more open source libraries more languages (elixir, go) more youtube […]
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I rarely mention this but I started using VueJS back when version 0.10.0 was out. Back then, VueJS was an interesting mashup for KnockoutJS and AngularJS semantics (and…it’s still is, right?). I haven’t touched it since because the update for 0.12 or 0.11, I can’t exactly recall, broke a bunch of APIs and well, life […]
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Game Development I started a CodePen collection called GameDev to explore some GameDev concepts. The first one, I explored was a basic loop: The code for a loop is super simple. Here’s what it basically boils down to: function start() { // setup and persistent state goes here window.requestAnimationFrame(update); // queue update function update() { […]
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I haven’t done any dev updates before but due to the changing nature of my own interests and how I approach handling my blog, I thought I’d start a new series. I’ve been wanting to do this but haven’t gotten around to it. So why dev updates? Because I don’t think my blog is a […]
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Stardew Valley took the gaming community by a storm. A lone developer that streamed his efforts released the game and within the day, it was THE game to play. I bought a copy and I usually don’t like games like these, and every gamer I know knows what Stardew Valley is. It’s hailed as the […]
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Bootstrap hasn’t gotten a major update in a few years. My frequently-search Bootstrap 3 article is a great testament. I was going to pull it or point people to the right place when I realized that 4 isn’t out yet! Well, we’ll cover a preview today. What we’re going to do is attempt to build […]
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It’s no secret that Redux took the front-end world by storm. Flux had people in doubts but it offered hope and when Redux reared its head, we realized that things can be simple and front-end state management can be simpler than “I hope it works!”. But for many, Redux is quite an enigma. From its […]
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I’m a huge fan of Redux. It’s super simple and its simplicity is what won over the hearts of many. On top of that simple architecture, we started to build more complex tools in order to help us do more complex things. From Redux Sagas, to various action creator libraries, and reducer managers. Paradux is […]
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A year or so ago, I wrote a piece of fiction called Reccr. Reccr was supposed to be an AI-driven recommendation engine that filtered life around you and used any and all data about you to refine that filter. We already see a rise of that behavior: Facebook’s “top posts” and “recommended” articles, Twitter’s “while […]
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