Category: Web Development
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Explaining TypeScript
I recently fielded an interesting request that I thought might have some value outside of a private conversation. Can you explain to me what TypeScript is? As you would to a small child please 😂 Samuel Hughes – https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-hughes-16029b163/ This reminds me of a maxim I have encountered in a number of organisations to assist in…
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Run! The Distributed Systems are coming!
You can avoid the fate of those that fell before you This is a letter to my fellow engineers, specifically those who operate in the front-end world. This letter is sent with love, but carries a message of deep foreboding. It is a warning and yet it is a message of hope, that there is…
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Babeling in defence of JavaScript
And so it goes, the eternal question “What is wrong with JavaScript?” and the inevitable, inescapably droll, reply: Nothing![] == '' // -> true[] == 0 // -> true[''] == '' // -> true[0] == 0 // -> true[0] == '' // -> false[''] == 0 // -> true — Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) June 16,…
Stephen Roughley - A Common Developer 