How Optimistic Updates May Improve Responsiveness Hello friends and fellow engineers, A few weeks ago, I was first introduced to the very interesting concept of “optimistically” updating the user interface (UI). It’s a technique everyone uses to improve the user experience by making the application feel like its more responsive. …

And what is the act of caching? — Hello friends and engineers, Lately, I have been learning about options developers can take to boost performance. I am a man on a mission to learn every possible solution; hopefully, you’re tagging along for the ride. On my page, we have talked about CSS Sprites, Web Workers, and lazy loading…

Data Structures, Algorithms, Calculus & Linear Algebra — Good morning my friends and fellow engineers, Today, I am going to share a few resources that I personally used while I was pursuing my BS in Computer Science. I recognize that academia loves using language that can sometimes be inaccessible to a lot of people. And that’s such a…

What is FIFO and LIFO? — Hey friends and fellow engineers, If you want a career in software development or data science, you might have heard of Data Structures and Algorithms. If you have been scouring all over the internet for SDE jobs or maybe talking to your computer science friends in university, you should have…

Forward Proxies & Reverse Proxies — Hey friends and fellow engineers, Today, we are talking about proxies, or proxy servers. In my job, it’s one of those terms that I have heard thrown around in meetings and had no clue what they were talking about; and since I want to be one of the best there…

An Industry Practice People Don’t Tell You About — Hey Friends, So on my page, I have always endorsed the idea that you should constantly commit your changes. You never know when your website or app will break from your code changes, and you want to therefore constantly save working versions of your code. In the case where your…

If you want to work at large enterprises, you may need to learn Typescript. — Good Morning Friends, Today, we are talking about the language Typescript. If you are learning Javascript and want to be employed at a big tech company as a Front-End Engineer, it may be beneficial for you to learn Typescript. Throughout my journey with Javascript, I rarely saw Typescript mentioned anywhere…

We talk about user experience and human-computer interaction — Hey friends, So at the beginning of the year, I was independently learning UX design while also taking a Human-Computer Interaction(HCI) course at university. If you ask me, they’re basically the same thing. Both fields strongly focus on how we can improve the user experience through thoughtful and strategic design…

What are Linters and Formatters? — Hey friends, Today, we are talking about two very popular tools that Front-End Engineers at very big companies use. We are talking about linters and formatters: Prettier and ESLint. Prettier is a very popular code formatter that supports JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and many more languages. According to the npm…