MiguelMJ articles - 38 total
Programming as a conversation - How the communicative scheme is also applied in the written code itself
Coding conventions, documentation practices and nomenclature styles are commonly subject of strong...
When numbers don't make sense
Introduction Most of the time, basic arithmetic is pretty simple and intuitive. Even...
Programming mathematical objects
Introduction This post is divided into two main parts. In the first one, I'm going to...
My blogging journey until now - I'm moving to Hashnode
Cover photo by Jess from Pexels 2020 - Starting a blog It's been more than two years...
Make It Pixel! - Make pixel art from any image
There are several options out there for generating pixel art from images. However, none has all the...
High level programming - Explaining abstraction
When designing our programs, we make use of abstraction while also providing it. In this post I want...
JavaScript is not an untyped language
JavaScript's popularity At the time of writing this post (Jun 2022), JavaScript is #3 in...
How to build a basic REST API in Lua - Milua micro framework
Milua is a micro framework to build web applications in pure Lua inspired by technologies like Flask, that aims to be easy to use and fast to develop
Hackathon submission - Idea: Group dynamics analysis
Introduction Well, this is my third submission for this hackathon. I guess Automatic...
Hackathon submission - Interactive conversation scripts for language learning
Overview of My Submission My second submission consists on a tool designed for languages...
Hackathon submission - An audio search engine powered by Deepgram
Overview of My Submission This submission consists on a CLI application to search for a...
How to get answers on StackOverflow
Talking about Questions And Answers in software development is talking about stackoverflow.com (SO...
Custom solution for fast navigation in Bash
Using the console, you have to cd your way through all your directories, which thanks to...
Building and using Markov chains - AI for text generation - Part II
In the previous post we saw some theory behind Markov chains. In this one we're going to define the...
Introduction to Markov chains - AI for text generation - Part I
I've always found generative AI one of the most interesting branches in Computer Science. As in any...
Take full advantage of high order functions - Examples in Javascript
Functions are more than just a way to avoid repetition in your code. The powerful concepts of...
Data structures in Prolog - Where to start
Defining the structures that represent the information of your program should be one of the first...
Make your Python program highly configurable
The more complex a program is, the more parameters it tends to accept in order to tune it's behavior....
Trucos básicos de álgebra en Python
Hay dos tipos de personas con una dificultad común a la hora de empezar a usar Python: las que aprend...
Open sourcing a Python project? - Tools you should know about
At the moment I'm writing, I have no work experience, so my only way to practically learn about softw...
Multidisciplinarity - What's there besides code?
The first thing that comes to most people's minds when they think of software development is programm...
Sobre la programación declarativa - Por qué estoy aprendiendo Prolog
Antes de nada, quiero dejar claro que en adelante usaré lenguaje de programación declarativa para re...
Escapar correctamente expresiones regulares
Las expresiones regulares suelen ser difíciles de entender y aún más de escribir. Probablemente uno d...
Making a level editor with SFML (C++) - Part 1
A level editor is something that I've wanted to do for a long time in SFML, but has always been delay...
About bilingual writers in DEV
Hello, DEV community. I'd like to know your opinion on users that publish in two different languages,...
I made a recommendation system for Stack Overflow unanswered questions
Background For me, contributing on Stack Overflow was a big step out of the comfort zone....
How to make an ethical crawler in Python
Web crawling or web scraping is the automation of the access to one or more websites, in order to ext...
Are one liners always pythonic?
First of all, if you don't know what pythonic means, see this question. I love clean code as much...
Why and how to use pen and paper - Designing algorithms with no code
It's a common thing to see programming students staring silently at their code editor, with a blank l...
Writing a Conversational User Interface Library - Full Series
For the last months, I've been writing this series on the development of JTASCHE (Java Text Adventure...