JavaScript Modules: A Beginner’s Guide

If you’re a newcomer to JavaScript, jargon like “module bundlers vs. module loaders,”…

Why I hate your Single Page App

Okay, now that I have your attention, let me say that I don’t really hate your single page app. I just find it highly annoying, unless it is one of the very, very few exceptional cases that actually merit being developed in this style. As those are few and far between, it’s…

How I wasted two years of my life trying to learn web development before discovering Free Code Camp

How I Landed My First Job as a Web Developer

I have always had an interest in coding for the web. I built my first site almost…

Building a Simple CRUD Application with Express and MongoDB

Code Calligraph VS Code Chicken Scratch

Over the past 17 years I’ve worked on over 90 projects with many teams. But it wasn’t…

Things Everyone Who’s Learning to Code Will Understand

I’ve been there. You’ve been there. We’ve all been there.

When you discover a perfect library for something you just spent a ton of time coding from scratch:

To the Nine-nine-ninety-nines

Yesterday GitHub — the center of the open source universe — went down for three hours.

A Special Hell for Designers Like Me

Part 1: Scratching the Surface

If I Ran Product at Twitter

I think about Twitter a lot. Probably more than someone who doesn’t have any monetary incentive to do so ever…