Alex Fallenstedt articles - 9 total
Streaming Tweets with Go
Building with free APIs is a great way to teach yourself new skills in languages you like. I’ve always found APIs as an underrated way to learn something new. Building with APIs brings challenges that force you to learn new parts of programming that video tutorials can not do. In this article I will discuss how to create twitter rules and manage a stream with my open source library twitterstream. This library was built for my project findtechjobs so I could find the latest tech jobs posted on twitter.
Three Steps I Took to Get a Job Offer From Amazon
Last year, I took the plunge and applied for a Frontend Engineering Position at Amazon. I knew little about the interview process and I had just one month to prepare for it. The result? I got an offer. In fact, the use of the interview techniques below granted me the opportunity to choose between two competing job offers. In this guide I will reveal the steps I took in order to become a competitive candidate.
My Mistakes Making a Canvas Based Game with Rust and WebAssembly
I learned a lot building Gobblet using Rust and WebAssembly. I probably won't use Rust and WebAssembly for this ever again.
Using Rust and WebAssembly to Process Pixels from a Video Feed
At Streem we are on a mission to make the world's expertise more accessible. We create guidance tools to steer the discussion and ensure accurate understanding the first time. Creating these guidance tools involves a lot of computation, which was an ideal problem for Rust and WebAssembly
Compute With Flutter
Parsing large amounts of JSON efficiently is easy with Flutter's compute method. Learn how to prevent jank by spawning isolates.
Testing NgRx Effects
You are walking down the street sipping some coffee and you ask yourself, “How can I test my ngrx@7.4.0 effects?”. If you’re asking that question then this might help you.
Building Widgets On Demand with Flutter
Creating a scrollable linear array of widgets that are created on demand is easy with Flutter. While laying out the list, visible children's elements, states and render objects will be created lazily based on the widget's position
Creating environments in Flutter
A litmus test for whether an app has all config correctly factored out of the code is whether the codebase could be made open source at any moment, without compromising any credentials.
Scan Operator For Mini Redux Stores
Introducing redux to your team without scaring them with a framework.