Yesterday I was watching a talk by Ben Ilegbodu at React Alicante called Help! My React App is Slowwwww! in which Ben discussed some optimizations developers can make to help improve performance of React applications. He goes over many of the potential bottlenecks that may arise such as unnecessary DOM…

Previously I wrote about how I became the maintainer of Saka, an open source browser extension that allows users to search through and load open tabs, browsing history and bookmarks. I talked about how I came up with a solution for unit testing the extension to give me confidence with…

UPDATE 1: I have written a post on how to perform testing for browser extensions using Jest, a modern testing framework here. — UPDATE 2: I did a presentation about testing Saka at OTPP dev days available here (see README for link!) In April I became the maintainer of Saka, a browser extension that allows users to search through their tabs, bookmarks and history. The original goal of Saka was to provide an elegant tab search but this soon evolved to include recently closed tabs, bookmarks and history when the original maintainer…

It’s 2018 and it’s time for an update to the JavaScript standard. In January this year the TC39 committee released the latest changes to the ECMAScript standard, appropriately called ECMAScript 2018. …

In this post I want to talk about how React renders components, and how it tries to improve performance by using its reconciliation algorithm to only update the parts of the DOM that need updating. …

A dive into how to test JavaFX applications using TestFX. If you just want to read about how to use TestFX skip to the “Setting Up Our Application” section. I recently started working at a company that has a very heavy reliance on Java applications. As a primarily Python, Javascript…

It’s been about 3 months now since I switched over to Medium from Wordpress. Now that I have had a chance to experience it a bit I think I can provide a comparison between Medium and Wordpress. Pros Simple, easy to use interface, almost never have to drill down menus looking…

Brian Krebs is a well-known and respected reporter who covers many different topics in the security industry, often involving data breaches and ATM skimmers. However, Krebs has always been unpopular among the financial and cyber criminals of the world given his uncanny ability to uncover the dirt on how they…

The last post I did was the start of the Comprehensive Guide To AppArmor which took a look at the basics an administrator or developer needs to know to start creating and deploying AppArmor profiles for a program. In the post I also left a question for the reader regarding…