Software Development

Streams are weirder than you think

Streams are a simple concept, but they are actually really weird if think about it.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks are very serious. When fully exploited, it gives one full control of user account on websites. Imagine somebody gaining access to your bank account and transfering all the…

3 bad REST endpoint designs

While REST defines useful constraints, there are still plenty of way to shoot yourself in the foot. Let’s…

Parallel programming in Node.js is so slick

Naysayers will say Node.js isn’t for serious work as its single threaded, and while…

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter that intentionally has few options. While prettier will never add/remove code, it will brutally reformat all the whitespace around the code to a fixed style. At times Prettier will reshuffle multiple lines just…

How to think about TypeScript

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, if one avoids certain features. Under the hood, transpiling…