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Matt Smith on when to use map() vs. forEach() in JavaScript. Just one of those things I can imagine asking or being asked in a coding interview. Some interesting comments below the article as well.

What is the difference between ESLint and TypeScript? Perhaps that feels like a strange question as ESLint is a, uhm, linter, and TypeScript is a language that compiles to JavaScript. Josh Goldberg writes how there is some overlap: While ESLint and TypeScript operate differently and specialize in different areas of code defects, there is some […]

Steve Yegge makes the prediction in Revenge of the junior developer that this current wave of AI “agents” that help us code with more capability than just type ahead suggestions and refactorings, like file creation, command line usage, and more, is just the fourth wave of six. The fifth is an individual developer managing multiple […]

David Darnes asks: Is 2025 the Year of the ‘Design Engineer’? It’s arguably a bit of a new term and being used more and more as a job title. Like most job titles, it doesn’t have the strongest agreed upon definition, but it’s honing in around the front end and essentially a designer who can […]

Erick Merchant has some ideas for questions to ask a senior front-end-developer (as in, interview questions). They seem pretty decent to me, so if you’re shooting for a senior role, you should probably have answers for these things with a bit more detail than Erick lists.

Let’s have a look at the skills that we find are in-demand today and provide a variety of options for leveling up and ensuring your career is headed upward.

11) If possible, try to do a few different types of programming earlier in your career. This doesn’t have to mean switching jobs: most companies are doing several different kinds of programming at once. So like if you’re starting in a webdev company, try some frontend, some backend, some operations, some database stuff, and so […]

These are our recommendations for those of you early in your web developer journey. This is about tech and the real world stuff around it that you’ll need.

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 […]