Last year I created a small “learn-typing”-project to learn ReactJS. Looking back let’s see how the “legacy” code holds up and let’s clean up a couple of things to make the code more

The book “JSON at Work” by Tom Marrs, it is a great introduction on how to create and use JSON. It covers topics on how to quickly set up a test server in

Polacode takes snapshots of your code. You can then use the snapshots for whatever. The snapshots will use your vscode theme and fonts. Thus they will always look beautiful You can get it

We will take a quick look at how to set up a project using TypeScript and Jest. By adding Jest to the project from the beginning this should encourage test driven development –

Recently ElementaryOS 5.0 Juno got released. I immediately upgraded. Looked at it for two seconds and saw such a gigantic design failure that I am now going back to Ubuntu. Which is sad

One of the biggest questions in programming. Everybody has an subjective answer to the question, as everybody develops their own style of programming over time. For me good code has to fulfill these

When looking around for example applications that use Mobx 5.x combined with Mobx-react 5.x and TypeScript 3.x I did not find any useful example. Most of the examples in the awesome mobx list

NVidias newly released RTX Graphics cards will not be automatically detected by Ubuntu. In order to get the cards running properly you need to install the NVidia drivers with the version 410 or

TypeScript is basically JavaScript with types. When writing your code you must define the types of your variables and optionally the returns of the functions. If you have been working with Java or

Lets take a look at a couple of very useful Visual Studio Code Extensions. General Settings Sync The tool allows you to synchronize your settings on multiple computers and/or operating systems. You need

A recent article on InfoWorld titled Breakthrough: Python reaches Tiobe index Top 3 - Yey Python - But wait, what is being ranked? The TIOBE Index uses search engine data to extract which

I have been using Wordpress for my site for the last 10 years. Is it time for a move to a new technology? Reasons for switching My primary reason is that I have

The book “Cracking the Coding Interview” helps you to survive the famous ‘technical interview’. Major tech companies like Google, Amazon etc. use these types of interviews to figure out if you can program.

8kyu - Logic Drills: Traffic light You need a function to handle each change from green, to yellow, to red, and then to green again. Based on how the question is formulated it

8kyu - positiveSum The first question is to sum up all the positive integers in an array. Basically two things need to be done: Filter out Values that should not be added to

Oracle has just announced that the End of Support for Java 8 is going to be January 2019. This, in turn, means that every business using Java will need to upgrade for security reasons

Image Designed by Freepik The ‘autofill’ feature of browsers is a blessing and a curse. The feature enables the browser to reuse the data the user has previously entered in forms. The trouble

In order to learn ReactJS, I decided to create a small useful tool to learn to type. I just recently had found the typing exercises I did when I was 10, so using

I was experimenting with the static site generator GatsbyJS. I noticed that there is no easy way to embed videos into markdown. Of course, there was an existing NPM package Gatsby: Remark Embed Youtube that

Now I will be assuming a couple of things: You have a GitHub account and you created a repository for your app. You created a react app either with npx create-react-app <appName> or npx

You got numbers, you want to know how many bits are flipped to a 1 Source: https://www.codewars.com/kata/bit-counting/train/python Approach: Well, first we need to convert our number from an integer to a binary number.

I am exercising to get back into Python. Even though the solution to this exercise is quite straightforward, you could tweak the code a little bit so that it runs a little faster. Basically,

When you start out with elementary OS there are a couple of useful things that you should do to have a better experience working with your system. General “Software & Updates” for Additional

Given a list of integers and a single sum value, return the first two values (parse from the left please) in order of appearance that add up to form the sum. Source: https://www.codewars.com/kata/sum-of-pairs

Let me tell you the story about a little browser. In the beginning, there was a love for Internet Explorer, a deep and passionate love for the browser that was simply faster, better