Luke Garrigan articles - 39 total
My favourite Kotlin features
Last Saturday I sat down with a strong cup of coffee and got stuck into some Kotlin. I thoroughly...
A Completely FREE planning poker app 💸 – Speed up your planning process!
Estimating is tough, and us developers are pretty sh*t at it. There are many ways to go about...
Top 5 books EVERY programmer MUST read! 📚
Top 5 books EVERY programmer MUST read! We all want to become a better programmer, and...
The Game of Life
The Game of Life or cellular automaton was developed by John Horton Conway in 1970 with just some...
What is BFS? (Breadth-first Search)
Introduction In computer science, a search algorithm is a series of steps that can be used...
What is Simulated Annealing?
What Is Simulated Annealing? Today I’ve been playing around with simulated annealing, whi...
How To Code Snake 🐍
I wouldn't usually post a blog like this to dev as it's something I usually do for myself, game dev i...
Create Fake Data Easily Using JavaScript
Ever need to populate a table or generate some data to see what your GUI looks like when it’s in use?...
Fast prototyping without worrying about the backend
This week I had a small project I wanted to prototype with an even smaller timescale, so I did the ob...
Neural Network Learns to Drive
This week I've been playing around with neural networks, or more specifically neuroevolution of augme...
Genetic Algorithms In JavaScript
This week I've been having a play around with genetic algorithms and had a tonne of fun. Wh...
Regex: From beginner to BEST on your team in one blog 👑
Recently I've been doing quite a lot of work using Regex and to be honest, I was pretty shite at it....
Coding a Planning Poker app
The 2 week sprint is over, the scope for the next sprint has been established by management, it's tim...
Code Multiplayer Games w/ Multiple Rooms! 🚀
Coding games using p5 is a tonne of fun, coding multiplayer games that you can get your mates to join...
Coding Chess with TDD
TDD is a pretty simple idea, you write your tests before you write any code and you write just enough...
How To Code A Game As A Beginner
Introduction So you want to get into programming? And you know you want to code games, the...
How To Sell Your API
How to sell your API If you've developed a brilliant API then there's a chance you could b...
Procedurally generate a universe 🌌🚀
Procedural generation is a means for generating data on the fly rather than manually, it gives us the...
Creating a Node.js command-line package
Introduction If you're anything like me, then the following is probably a daily occurence....
THE HACKTOBERFEST GAME - YEAR 2! 🎮⌨🚀
Introduction This time last year I came up with an idea to get more people involved in Hac...
How To Code An Alexa Skill! 🤖
Introduction In this blog, I'll take you through the fundamentals of coding an Alexa skill...
The ONE tip you need to actually finish side projects!
I'm like every other developer, I start a personal project, get really invested in it for a week or s...
What do you think the BEST feature is that dev.to could add?
A feature I'd like to see I think an optional spellcheck/grammar setting would be amazing....
Creating bots in seconds!
Halloween has been and gone, which means Christmas is coming!! And I wanted to be the first blogger o...
What’s the biggest c*ck up you’ve made in an interview?
A few years ago now, I was interviewing for an internship as a Computational Biologist in my second y...
Do you actually use maths as a developer?
This has always intrigued me as I see a tonne of posts saying that learning maths helps you become a...
The SIMPLEST way to make a pull request 🌲✔️
I'm sure many of you have done the following: Google: "How to make make a pull request" Cry when yo...
THE HACKTOBERFEST GAME! 🎮⌨🚀
Introduction I've come up with a brilliant idea to get more people involved in Hacktoberfe...
Put Your Dog In Version Control! 🐶
Let me just preface this by letting you know that reading this blog, you will learn: Absolutely not...
Code a BRILLIANT multiplayer game 🚀 in 2 MINUTES!
Disclaimer: your definition of brilliant may vary Where to start The hardest part of codi...