A couple of days ago, as part of a two day hackathon at Hack Reactor, I build my very own Sass compiler. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Sass is a CSS pre-processor and probably the best one out there. There’s a lot of Sass compilers out there, but mine is the only one written purely in (and not ported to) JavaScript.
»Time complexity is a measure of the number of operations an algorithm must make in relation to the number of inputs we give it. We call the number of inputs n. We use the term marginal cost to describe the increase in runtime caused by increasing n by 1.
»Usually, when writing JavaScript asynchronous code and you want something to happen after something else, you pass in a function into another function. This is what’s usually called a callback function. But, you already knew that, right?
»Lately, I’ve become a testing fanatic. I write tests for almost everything that’s not DOM related (and sometimes even for that!).
»For the longest time (and I still think a bit this way), I thought this was the silliest thing in the world. I though that if someone thought they weren’t good at something it’s probably because they probably weren’t!
»Here’s a presentation I gave out today on PHP and why I’m not the biggest fans. The presentation is actually quite clear and doesn’t need a lot context.
»Yesterday, we got a toy problem in which we need to find if a number was a prime number or not. Here’s how I went about solving the problem
»Here’s some of the projects I worked on at Hack Reactor during week #3. Each project was done in a 2 days sprints were I pair-programmed with someone from my cohort.
»This week, I met a lot of new people, worked on a couple of interesting toy problems and have been getting more comfortable here at Hack Reactor. But, most importantly, I’ve been working on some really cool projects. Here they are!
»Following a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very. very, very long tradition of Hack Reactor students writing week by week blog posts reflecting on their experiences, I’ve decided to write a blog post every week about my experience at Hack Reactor. These blogs were so influential in my decision to come to Hack Reactor that I thought I’d be unfair for me not to contribute to the conversation.
»Want to mess around with your developer friends? How about a way to overwrite their console so that it misbehaves?
»It’s less than 24 hours since starting at Hack Reactor. I’ve been thinking about what I want out of the program and where I want to be in 3 months. It’s tough. I feel I don’t have one big reason to do it, but rather, many smaller reasons that add up to a very clear decision.
»Today, after upgrading chrome to Chrome 38, I got the most amazing JavaScript error I’ve ever gotten in my life!
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I got a new MacBook Pro today (Retina is beautiful!) and wanted to write down all the stuff I did to set it up correctly. I sort of enjoy going through all this, because it feels like I’m starting from scratch, but I often forget all the stuff I used to have in my computer.
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