Thank you to all the people who have helped me build on this idea since I stumbled upon it a couple years ago. Thank you. Just like most people, I have a hidden side. It’s the side of me that sits quietly in the morning, slouched next to a table…

Facebook’s current documentation is out of date… — The Problem: If you follow the steps according to the documentation exactly, your application may work in your simulator, but it may not work on your real device (I’m using an iPhone 11, so I don’t know for sure about other models). The Solution: Check step 6 if all you…

Don’t be afraid of babel like I was… — Prerequisites: - Node.js installed - NPM installed (this comes with node.js) - Basic Bash syntax So you want to publish your own NPM module, and you want to write that code in ES6 syntax? Here are the challenges we will encounter in this article: We will need to build our…

How to run your classes’ code when you’re ready for it — Prerequisites to understand: Swift 5 syntax You may have seen someone else’s Swift code include the keyword lazy, but what does that mean? The lazy keyword is used to solve problems with processing speed. Let’s say we have a struct: struct Person { var age: Int = 16 } Now…

New and improved completion handlers — Prerequisites to understand: Basic Swift 5 syntax. Closures. Asynchronous data handling. To fully grasp what the @escaping keyword does, we must first understand what a completion handler is. Let’s consider the following function: func fetchData(url: String){ print("Fetching data...") print("Data has been fetched!") } This is a pretty basic function that…

3 reasons why JavaScript will be the most popular programming language in 2030 — For those of you who don’t understand the play on words in the title, there is a keyword in JavaScript called “this” which has been the center of confusion since the birth of the language. That being said, it is surprising that one of the most misunderstood programming languages is…

Updated for changes made in 2019 — When I first started programming, one of the first tools I wanted to create was an app that could run blocks of code every day (or some other time interval). But when you’re just starting out, like I was, I didn’t know what to Google to figure out how to…

There is a clear rise of consciousness in 2019, and everyone seems to want to know, “what exactly does it mean to be self-aware?” Self-awareness at it’s core is going to mean something different to everyone, but everyone who “gets it” knows that it can be a simple but powerful…

You’re basically about to get your developer pregnant… — Back in college I encountered this 1 conversation, like, a bajillion times. It went a little something like this. “Hey Suzy” “Hey Jimmy” (I’m Jimmy) “Hey do you know anything about how [insert topic] works?” “Why? You stuck on some homework?” “Nahh” “What class is it for?” “It’s not for…