Advantages and Pitfalls of Arrow Functions

There are big differences between arrow functions and…

Hackathons are for beginners

Hackathons sound scary… but actually they’re a fun and relaxed place to…

How to serve your website on port 80 or 443 using AWS Load Balancers

Linux servers limit non-root processes from binding to ports less than 1024. That’s a problem if you want to serve a website over HTTP or HTTPS which have default ports of 80 and 443. If you try to run code which…

Getting started with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading platform for cloud computing. It has nearly every conceivable thing you’d need. If you just need a server and database — it has that. If you need natural language processing and a bulk emailing platform — it has that too and more! AWS is used…

How to learn to code

So you want to learn to code? Awesome! Coding is a lot of fun. I like coding because it’s very creative. You get to build…

Finding Prime Phone Numbers on Twilio

While writing a treasure hunt inspired by the DEFCON badge challenges, I needed a prime phone number. That is, a phone number which also happens to be a prime number.