code

• 2 Feb 2019
• 2 min read

I've recently been attempting to contribute to some open-source GitHub projects with varying degrees of success. One thing that's extremely…

• 1 Feb 2019
• 1 min read

So you’ve got your HTML and CSS sorted and you’ve started to drop in some customs scripts to make things a bit interactive. To keep things in…

• 31 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

When I was first learning to code, something that came up a lot was to always comment your code. Code comments have value, but despite what my…

• 30 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

The concept of DRY code is simple, Don’t Repeat Yourself. So if you look at some code you’ve just written and notice it’s looking a bit moist,…

• 29 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

In JavaScript not all comparisons are created equal... see what I did there. Let’s say we’re comparing two values like this: The use of “==“…

• 28 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

Part of developing (and certainly learning to develop) is creating code, commenting it out, and creating a better version. As you get into a…

• 25 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

Back in the day, I used to have this habit of declaring all of my variables at the top of the file. My thinking at the time was it would keep…

• 23 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

Coding is a fairly amazing thing to be able to do. There are effectively no limits to what can be done when you’re more or less writing the…

• 22 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

Consider the following code: Looks good right? It’s logical and easy to understand, just your standard if statement. All true, but over the…

• 21 Jan 2019
• 1 min read

Do you know what's super annoying when reading someone else code? Abbreviated variable or function names. Until late 2017 I hadn't done any…