Oct 9, 2017Crafting a Blockchain Transaction with JavaScriptRecently in building a transaction from scratch, I learned a few nuances about Bitcoin that have been abstracted for me through wallet clients. …Bitcoin11 min readBitcoin11 min read
Mar 30, 2016Seven Ways I Grew as a JavaScript Developer by Cultivating an NPM Package.If you’re an aspiring full-stack javascript developer, might I suggest putting down the books and video tutorials to apply some of your newfound knowledge at periodic intervals. This past year, I made a conscious effort to publish packages to NPM — the largest javascript package manager. …Web Development7 min readWeb Development7 min read
Mar 18, 2016Analyzing 50,000 Tinder Users in the Los Angeles AreaOh Tinder, you mean such different things for such different people. At various crossroads in my life you have served as a tool to fight boredom, and find the occasional date. Lately, you’ve been something else— giving me a sizeable, unique data set to pursue some research on in my…Tinder2 min readTinder2 min read
Mar 17, 2016Build and Publish Your First Command Line Application with Node.js and NPMIf you’re not familiar with NPM, at some point it used to stand for Node Package Manager. With over 250,000 open sources packages to install, it is by far the most pervasive package manager. If you’re not already using it when it developing with javascript/node.js, you should highly consider starting. …Java Script3 min readJava Script3 min read
Published in Frontend Weekly·Feb 7, 2016Getting Started with JavaScript Unit TestingBest practice in test driven development (TDD) dictates the test are written first, and then functions are written to pass the tests. If written correctly, they should pass as soon as your functions are working. The benefit of this approach is that changes made later on are just an ‘npm…Java Script2 min readJava Script2 min read
Published in Frontend Weekly·Jan 20, 2016So You Want to Build a Desktop Application with JavaScript…Well, you’re in luck. As web developers, we’ve got a set of skills that increasingly can be applied to a variety of mediums. One of those mediums is the desktop — software in the classic sense of the word. Formerly known as Atom Shell (the foundation of Github’s own text…Java Script5 min readJava Script5 min read
