Jon Randy ๐๏ธ articles - 32 total
The most interesting and fun projects to build are always the one ones with little to no practical use, and I thoroughly recommend building them ๐
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"We are destroying software" - https://antirez.com/news/145
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@ben The spam is still bad on the site. Any progress on solving this?
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Don't do this. Please. It's going to be even harder to discover decent content on here ๐
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LLMs are Bullshitters ๐ฎ๐ฉ
Just read a great paper on LLMs. I strongly suggest reading it, but here's the...
One Byte Explainer: Recursion
This is a submission for DEV Computer Science Challenge v24.06.12: One Byte Explainer. ...
How to Calculate the Nth Fibonacci Number
Okay, lets dive straight into the code... const fib = n => Math.floor((((1 + 5**.5)/2)**n -...
The Rise of Tech Bloggers Relying on Generative AI
In the ever-evolving landscape of online content creation, the utilization of generative AI has...
Misconceptions About Closures
The two biggest (and unfortunately widespread) misconceptions about closures: A closure is...
Meet Cerebrum: Your New Coding Assistant
There's a new โAIโ coding assistant on the block, and it outshines all others I've seen by a very...
Ranger: JS Range Syntax for Anything
Following on from my little experiment with a basic number range syntax in JS, I decided (as with...
Most Developers Can't Answer This Question About Anonymous Functions ๐คฏ
Given the following code: function add(a, b) { return a + b } const add1 = function(a, b) { ...
JS Magic: Making a Range Syntax for Numbers
WARNING: using this technique in production code may result in injury or death during code...
Better Hardware Has Been Terrible for Development๐ป
The rapid pace of improvement in processor speeds over the years - and of hardware performance/cost...
AI Generated Content and the Death of Ideas
I was going to write a post on this, but this tweet pretty much sums up my thoughts on the...
dev.to no longer installable as a PWA??!๐ฃ
TL;DR - please like/share/comment on this post if you'd like once again to use our beloved...
Say "var", "let" or "const" again...
Can anyone else remember the time when DEV had interesting, non-repetitive articles? Content...
Preaching 'Clean Code' is Lowering the Quality of Developers
Okay - first things first... I am in no way anti clean code, and I'm not saying it is necessarily a...
Pixel Manipulation in Canvas
I've been frustrated for a while at the lack of easy pixel manipulation functionality in the canvas...
Turboprop: JS Arrays as Property Accessors!?!
Click for spoilers Turboprop allows you to use arrays as property accessors to both get and set...
Happy 40th Birthday to the ZX Spectrum 48K!
Without this little rubber keyed wonder, I would not be the programmer I am today... Who else got...
Do you work more hours than you're paid for?
If so, what are your reasons?
The Problems with Web3 and NFTs
Okay, so this may seem like a lazy post since it is essentially reposting the content of others - but...
๐คฌ Which parts of your job do you hate?
Since you're all on DEV - I think it's safe to assume that you probably like development, or at the...
Instant Metho Curry
Today on 'Cooking with Metho', we'll be making a nice curry. Ingredients 1 x metho -...
JS Sets: The Missing Methods
So, whilst Sets were a great addition to JavaScript, there did seem to be some glaring omissions. The...
๐๐JavaScript Thing: Everything You MUST Know
[insert reworked page from MDN reference documentation here] Link to my mediocre 'Web Development...
JS Number extensions with Metho
Following on from the previous introduction to Metho, I decided to throw together metho-number as a...
Introducing Metho: Safely adding superpowers to JS
TL;DR Metho allows you to easily and safely add methods in the form of dynamic properties...
What skills do developers mostly employed on teams not learn (vs. those who work mainly as indie developers)?
Following on from Ben's post I thought it might be interesting to turn the question around the other...