Lessons and take aways from building a web app from start to finish — As a developer, sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the fervor of learning new technologies, tooling, and best practices and forget that at the end of the day software is an ends to a mean of build services and applications that benefit people. In this article, I’m going…

Learn the intricate theory and practice of sessionless authentication with JWTs along with best practices — Authentication using stateful user sessions and session_ids stored in the cookie has been a strategy that has worked for decades. But with the rise of service oriented architectures and web services, there has been a push to design applications with the principle of statelessness in mind. JWTs provide a stateless…

When developing world class User Experiences, you deserve a world class Developer Experience — In today’s code ecosystem where there are so many frameworks to choose from that all seemingly try to solve the same problems, it’s important to remember that no matter what tooling you use good code is language and framework agnostic. But great tooling definitely doesn’t hurt to have. In this…

You want to make your web-site fast. Blazing fast. But you have an issue — every time a user navigates to a new page, the browser has to make a request to the server for that page’s documents. …

This week, I had the idea of making a toy car that drives away from you when you pull on a string that’s attached to it. The string is wound around the spool at the center of the vehicle, and when the spool turns, the gears turn the back wheels…

Another week goes by in the development of PathFinder.io, and some interesting game-play additions have been added to the game. For starters, I have finally added AI and objective nodes to the game. The primary goal of the game as it stands will be to pass over as many objective…