Meghan (she/her)

Meghan (she/her) @nektro

About: 24. Local trans witch who prefers to do magic with a keyboard. she/her. Currently hacking away at making the Web less centralized.

Location:
Massachusetts, USA
Joined:
Mar 13, 2017

Meghan (she/her)
articles - 53 total

Making Slate [Part 2.1]

A deep-dive on function-order selection

Learn More 8 0Sep 13 '20

The Making of Slate [Part 2]

This is an update article of progress made since this one. ...

Learn More 12 1Sep 9 '20

Centralization is rampant. And I'm not sure how we should fix it..

#watercooler. Hmm, maybe I shouldn't talk about this at work..

Learn More 12 5Nov 13 '19

I saw "Ajax" was trending on Twitter...

And my first thought was definitely not soccer/football xD ...

Learn More 34 7Aug 29 '19

Language Proposal: The 'Any' Switch Case

I haven't seen this anywhere else.

Learn More 9 9Jul 18 '19

Debugging Travis CI is very hard.

I can't find the docs and the output is bad

Learn More 8 9Jul 16 '19

Captain Marvel's Official Website is Amazing

With a truly inspired experience, it only makes me even more excited for the movie that hits theaters March 8, 2019.

Learn More 63 35Feb 10 '19

Facebook.com is Down

Woah.

Learn More 16 6Nov 12 '18

Thoughts on interpreted vs compiled languages?

is there a better choice?

Learn More 20 31Sep 20 '18

I really don't like the reactions stickied at the bottom of the screen.

unnecessary and unnatural

Learn More 15 12Sep 13 '18

Search/replace file names in Powershell

Posting a command I recently found that allows you find/replace file names in Powershell on Windows....

Learn More 24 1Jul 10 '18

The Making of a Programming Language: Slate [Part 1]

The first in a series in my journey making the Slate language.

Learn More 91 8Jul 10 '18

Are you pleased with the current progress/direction of AI?

AI and specifically ML algorithms are getting smarter and put in more places than ever. What do you...

Learn More 11 4Jul 9 '18

Would it be possible for routers to run Let's Encrypt?

Connections to 192.168.1.1 should be secure too

Learn More 17 7Jun 21 '18

I'm 21, Transgender, and 💜 to code! Happy Pride Month, AMA! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Went from Sean to Meghan real fast, well not quite!

Learn More 64 26Jun 18 '18

What do you dislike about your favorite language?

To truly appreciate our languages, we must know their faults.

Learn More 21 26Jun 2 '18

How do you update backend web services without downtime?

Don't you have to stop the service?

Learn More 46 16May 31 '18

Why do Web browsers famously use so much RAM?

Is it because every character in Strings are UTF-16 and every Number is a float64, the sheer number...

Learn More 9 1May 22 '18

Google Duplex: Has AI Gone Too Far?

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html

Learn More 22 12May 10 '18

[Entry] Button Push

An app/hack submitted to the first-ever DEV Community contest.

Learn More 22 3May 4 '18

I made a JS Module so you can *almost* use the pipeline operator today!

I heard you like functions so I made a function for you to pipe your functions to other functions functionally.

Learn More 36 3Apr 13 '18

What's the most annoying ad experience you've ever had?

Only 1% of people can read this post!

Learn More 15 13Apr 5 '18

What did you or your organization do for April Fool's?

AKA Programmer Field Day

Learn More 10 1Apr 1 '18

Have blocks return the last statement with the Comma Operator

A good use for a not so common feature of JavaScript

Learn More 16 6Mar 30 '18

Web Features Have No Versioning System

After reading the HTML spec, I ran into this problem

Learn More 10 1Mar 30 '18

This is my dream language. Is it real?

I've been looking for so long and come up with nothing.

Learn More 15 18Mar 21 '18

The StackOverflow 2018 Developer Survey Results are live!

Over 100,000 developers from all over the world took the survey this year and the results are...

Learn More 18 21Mar 13 '18

Will the web ever evolve past JavaScript?

Sorry Brendan, I love JS but I have some other ideas too.

Learn More 17 7Mar 10 '18

Which programming language has the prettiest syntax?

Which programming languages do you never get tired of reading? Which designers nailed the readability...

Learn More 12 14Mar 7 '18

What are some "hidden gem" GitHub repositories?

Some projects really don't have the amount of stars they deserve

Learn More 30 6Mar 4 '18