For me if I find myself going down a rabbit hole from what I have been writing — none on medium so far, but soon — I change mediums. Maybe I will paint or draw; sometimes I even try to sing… though that annoys the neighbours.

I find using a medium other than the one I have been immersed in to be therapeutic, it’s just as…

A quick dip into recursion

In this example, you will type this code into something like http://jsbin.com/?js,console. In this case you must answer yes or no to break out of the loop.

var askRecursively = function(question) {
var reply = prompt(question);
 
 if ( reply === ‘yes’ ) {…

Web developer in beta

So I’m three and a half weeks deep into Bitmaker Labs’ Web Dev course, and there are a few things I’ve now realised:

1. This is just as hard as I thought it would be.
2. There’s always more to do. Always.

Things I learned with Nynne last week, 1

For the next couple of months, I get to mentor Nynne, an incredibly curious and determined apprentice software developer. Mentoring is rewarding in many ways, not least because you learn the quirks of your craft. Here are the quirks we discovered this week.