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“Reactivity” is how systems react to changes in data. There are many types of reactivity, but for this article, reactivity is when data changes, you do things.

When we chat about AI, getting lost in a sea of buzzwords and futuristic predictions is easy. We’ve all heard the debates – will AI revolutionize our world or make our jobs obsolete? So, let’s look beyond the hype and instead look at how AI can help with the subject of my course on creating high-converting […]

Do you ever feel like the web has turned into Mos Eisley, “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”? A place where anything goes as companies attempt to persuade us to click, download or buy. The web seems full of deceptive design patterns that use psychology to manipulate people into handing over personal information (also known […]

How often have you scrambled to assemble a resume, only never to hear back from the company you applied to? You’re not alone. Often your resume competes against hundreds (or even thousands!) of other resumes. So…how do you get noticed? A resume isn’t something most people regularly update (even though we probably should). When you […]

If you start an app project today, there are some simple decisions, such as the cloud provider or the backend stack you will use. But the biggest challenge is to choose the right frontend app platform: PWA or native? Flutter or one native app per platform? What about React Native? You are looking for a […]

How Game Engines Like Unity Help You Get Into Game Development If you like to play video games or are in the orbit of technical jargon, you’ve probably heard about game engines like Unity and Unreal. These industry leaders power a massive chunk of the modern gaming industry. At their core, game engines are software […]

How often have you been frustrated because you’ve just joined a new project and can’t figure out why your styles aren’t being applied properly? Or maybe you’ve just integrated a new library, and suddenly all of your styles are being overridden. You could slap an !important declaration onto your styles and call it a day, but that […]

I took a shot at coding TodoMVC with modern (ES6+), vanilla JavaScript, and it only took ~170 lines of code and just over an hour! Compare this to the old/official TodoMVC vanilla JS solution, which has over 900 lines of code. An 80%+ reduction in code! I ❤️ the new state of JavaScript. The code has received […]