Andy Haskell articles - 52 total
Conferencing tips as an autistic + ADHD conference-goer
I'm an AuDHD (autistic+ADHD) software engineer, and I've been going to tech conferences since OWASP...
How AuDHD traits have helped me get good at devrel
Developer relations (devrel) might not be front of everyone's mind as a career that a neurodivergent...
Write your tech talk slides rapidly with Marp
I've been doing public speaking in tech since 2015 when I presented my very first lightning talk at...
Using Testify Mock in web clients
In the last tutorial, we looked at: How Testify Mock helps us make nondeterministic code...
Mocks in Go tests with Testify Mock
In parts 1-3 of this tutorial series, we saw how you can use Go to write automated tests. Go's...
Processing user input in Bubble Tea with a menu component
In the last tutorial, we did a "hello world" app, and it processed just a bit of user input ("press...
Intro to Bubble Tea in Go
Doing stuff in the command line is cool and can make you feel like you're the hero in a hacker movie....
#WebDevSampler challenge - My answers in Go
As a first time doing the #WebDevSampler challenge, I used Go, which is a popular backend language,...
Introducing the #WebDevSampler challenge
There are a lot of programming languages you can use to code the server for your web app, but...
#GopherDiggingRuby: Intro to blocks in Ruby
When you're coding in Ruby, one piece of syntax you'll see a lot of is blocks, with either the curly...
#GopherDiggingRuby: Make a dev.to image link fetcher in Ruby
I write a lot of blog posts on dev.to and really like using Markdown for blogging. But one thing that...
Convert images to mosaics in p5.js
p5.js is a fun JavaScript library for drawing on an HTML5 canvas, and it has some of the clearest...
Type systems as told by my dog
There are a lot of programming languages out there to build cool apps in, and one of the major...
Test your Go web apps with httptest
In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics of writing tests in Go with the testing.T type, and...
Subtesting, skipping, and cleanup in the Go testing.T
In my last tutorial, we looked at the basics of writing tests in Go. We saw: 🚦 how the testing.T ty...
Basics of first-class functions in Go
Even though Go is not mainly a functional language, it does have the core concept that functions are...
What you can get out of doing a side project, even if you don't finish
One of many great ways to build your career in tech is by trying out a side project. It's a hands-on...
Intro to automated testing in Go
Testing with Go's standard library for newcomers to Go
Get started screen reader testing with screen readers and the accessibility tree
If you're getting started with web accessibility, you'll want to understand what exactly the results...
Making custom Jest assertion matchers in JavaScript and TypeScript
Jest is a powerful tool for testing your JavaScript code, giving an expect syntax that reads like a s...
Using Dexie.js to write slick IndexedDB code
Part 4 of my IndexedDB tutorial series, on the basic IndexedDB actions
A first look at Crystal as a Gopher
Crystal is a fairly new language, which started in 2014, and it's got some cool features: 🏷 Static t...
How to use someone else's Vue component
With Vue.js, you give your web apps a component-based architecture; the big user experience you're se...
Going from .vue files to vue-cli
In the last tutorial, we saw how by reorganizing our Vue code and then adding a build process to our...
Going from plain Vue to .vue files
If you've read the official Vue.js Guide, you've seen how Vue apps are made of components, you can ma...
Sorting in Go from JavaScript
In computer science, sorting means taking a collection of items, and rearranging them so they are in...
Speakers, what are the biggest misconceptions you had about speaking before you started?
A post by &y H. Golang (he/him)
Perfectionism as a content creator and what I do about it
I have been a content creator on and off since 2010, writing blog posts about Go and frontend, and sp...
Build a web API client in Go, Part 3: Define our client
In part 1 of this tutorial, we saw how send requests to an API using the Go net/http client, and in p...
Build a web API client in Go, Part 2: Deserializing the data
In part 1 of this tutorial, we got an API key for the ClimaCell API, used it to connect to ClimaCell...