Mike Talbot ⭐ articles - 45 total
Interview Question: how do you ensure you only virus scan once?
I see a lot of interview questions being proposed that are around DSA and lower level algorithms that...
MapPlus: a better "Map" makes your code easier to read...
TL;DR I introduce MapPlus, a simple class that makes your code easier to read and ensures Maps are...
A debate to be had.
Why AI Can't Replace Developers: The Real Limits of AI in...
One Byte Explainer: Deadly Embrace
This is a submission for DEV Computer Science Challenge v24.06.12: One Byte Explainer. Deadly...
Coding solutions with AI
We talk a lot on Dev about how we are worried that AI will take our jobs, that it will write code...
An espresso shot of "Smooth": requestIdleCallback in <256 characters
This is a submission for DEV Challenge v24.03.20, One Byte Explainer: Browser API or Feature. ...
Avoid the Promise.all pitfall! Rate limit async function calls
Have you fallen into the Promise.all pitfall? You know the one; you grab a list of things from...
Delight your users with this instant scroll restoration custom hook
TL;DR In a multipage application, pressing the back button should restore the scrolling...
Game In A Month: Serverless Leaderboards
I found myself out of work for the last month and decided to use my time with my partner to build a...
An extensible React "Plug & Play" Widget
TLDR; I'm building a blogging widget that allows authors to further engage their audience...
Making A Simple Serverless Gamification API With Firebase Functions
TLDR; I'm building a widget to help content authors grow their audience by asking them...
Serverless App API with Firebase Functions
TLDR; I'm building a widget to provide fun quizzes, polls and much more within Blog posts...
A Serverless App With Firebase
TLDR; If you've been reading along you'll know I'm building a widget to provide some fun...
Client Side React Router: routes & parameters
TLDR; I'm building a client side router as part of a project to create some useful Widgets...
Building a client side router in React with event hooks (pt1: events)
TLDR; I'm making a pluggable widget component with front end and serverless back end...
14 functions I made to dump lodash and reduce my bundle size...
Lodash and underscore changed the way I write Javascript forever, but today there might be better...
React Virtual Window - virtualise anything for a performance boost!
TLDR; I've made a new React Virtual Window component that will virtualise lists and any...
React lists without .map
When we are rendering data in React we often grab an array and do a .map() to write out our...
Spice up your Javascript with some powerful curry! (Functional Programming and Currying)
Functional programming and currying are topics that have some of us staring at the wall and saying...
How to cook up a powerful React async component using hooks (and no Suspense)
Photo by Adrian Infernus on Unsplash Introduction Frequently the core of our front end...
The ultimate "Glitch free JS" library has lost weight!
For the last year js-coroutines has been enabling me and others to split up glitchy long-running proc...
Continuous updates as you process data in TypeScript
Last week I wrote a post about how we can avoid glitches when processing data in TypeScript and anima...
Unjam your server: NodeJS collaborative multitasking
TL;DR Sometimes we need to write code in Node that does significant processing Often we c...
Glitch free 1,000,000 record data processing in TypeScript with js-coroutines
Sometimes we need to process data on the front end, perhaps we are using an offline system or accessi...
Search as you type at 60fps with js-coroutines
It's nice to be able to make user interfaces that require the least number of clicks for the user to...
js-coroutines gives your code: data indexing and lookup functionality, in idle time
Following user feedback I've added some key "lodash" like functions to the out of the box features...
60fps with Functional Programming in idle time
js-coroutines has been able to process standard functions like parsing and stringifying JSON, or co...
An angle on React state you haven't seen before...
TL;DR Managing state in React has all sorts of solutions from useContext and useState to...
Make your own truly flexible apps: Inversion of Control Pt 2
We use a game for demonstration and tutorial purposes, this series is NOT a game development tutorial...
Hello! Thanks for a crazy first month on DEV :)
I joined DEV on May 18th and in the following month I've learned a bunch of stuff and used that learn...