I recently gave a presentation on JavaScript Transpilers at the Flatiron School with Dison Ruan, and I believe it’s such an important and compelling topic for just about anybody who uses software that it makes a lot of sense to write this accompanying article. …

It’s Native?! Audio synthesis is an art and a science, with infinite breadth and depth. …

Proactively protect your sensitive data from running off the Rails Figaro is a very nifty tool for proactively protecting your rails project, so that you don’t ever have to use BFG, which I wrote about last week. While BFG is for cleaning out your GIT repository tree, e.g. when…

For when your repository has been compromised — Although it was among my most cherished stories of my early childhood, this article is not about the Big Friendly Giant or his eponymous novel by Roald Dahl — no Fleshlumpeaters, Snozzcumbers, or Whizzpopping. Sorry! BFG is a tool I encountered recently because of a pretty awful mistake I made…

Week four of Flatiron School’s web dev bootcamp is on the threshold, and the last few weeks have borne a rapid ascent from the basics of Ruby to the implementation of complete dynamic web servers. …

I’m learning to program. Learning to program at its very beginnings requires a shift in the way that I imagine: it permutes the very definition of action and the very action of definition, and blurs the line between the two. This is because of the semantic nature of code. In…