React has been around for just under 10 years now. It has come a long way in that time but I want to talk about a major update to react a bit under 2 years ago, and that is hooks. There are two types of components in React — functional…

If you're a programmer then you have probably had a lot of experience trying to figure out why you're program isn't working. Thinking back on how my approach to troubleshooting my code has changed over my time as a programmer made me want to share some things I think I…

I recently had a technical interview which was a simple project to be built over the weekend. The project was to build a “poker hand checker”. I felt very comfortable with the project because I enjoy playing and watching poker. I knew already what the ranking of hands are and…

Admittedly I had very little knowledge of linters until very recently. I knew of their existence and a basic idea of what they did but assumed they were hard to use and offered minimal results, but now I have seen the light and I must share. So to start, what…

Continuous integration or development, known commonly as CI/CD is really just a high level plan for how you will be developing and maintaining code in your project/company/etc. It is the idea that instead of pushing major changes to the main branch of your code all at once, you (and your…

Git is amazing software. For those of you who stumbled across this post without knowing what git is — how did you manage that? But to catch you up to speed it is an open-source version control software that almost all developers use. Its often used in combination with other…

Even though the title of this article looks a bit like clickbait, and you might be asking yourself what ‘this’ is referring to, it is actually quite literal. The ‘this’ keyword in JavaScript gives a lot of developers grief and can be confusing to understand at first so let's break…

In 2020 my career as a chef took a big pause as Covid-19 shut down basically every restaurant in the country. The restaurant I was working at during that time ended up closing permanently in October that same year. I decided to finally take action and do something I had…

In the past few months, I have had a growing interest in the game of sudoku. A big part of that is from a youtube channel called cracking the cryptic and if you are interested in puzzles I would recommend checking them out. But as I have become more interested…