Jonathan Silvestri

Jonathan Silvestri @silvestricodes

About: Enjoys JavaScript, React, and video games.

Location:
New York City
Joined:
Apr 8, 2019

Jonathan Silvestri
articles - 17 total

Using Currying and Reducers in your Components

Context I came across some old code from a take home challenge. Part of the challenge was...

Learn More 34 0Mar 11 '20

Affirmations

Introduction I'm going to get right into it and write a bunch in here. Read as much as you...

Learn More 9 0Jan 1 '20

The Importance of Kindness

Today I would like to have a conversation about "the most important skill." In reality, what that is...

Learn More 55 5Dec 4 '19

Hard to Read Code is Not Empathetic

Prompt You just finish creating a chain of composed functions with a higher order function...

Learn More 12 6Oct 9 '19

Asynchronous Flows...with React Hooks!

I got the opportunity to implement some asynchronous data flows the other day at work, and I'd love t...

Learn More 118 10Sep 6 '19

Knowing When To Ask For Help

After some time... You are sitting at your computer, stuck on a feature. You feel like you...

Learn More 14 1Jul 18 '19

[UPDATED] I got 404 problems...

Can you help me find another one?

Learn More 6 1Jul 10 '19

I got 404 problems...

and being not found is one!

Learn More 7 0Jul 9 '19

I asked my friend to make a promise

But he rejected :/

Learn More 9 3Jul 8 '19

Effectively Receiving Feedback

I have seen posts about how to give feedback, constructive or otherwise, in professional settings. I...

Learn More 20 7Jun 11 '19

Encapsulate and Moderate with Closures

Have you ever found yourself wanting to modify and update a data structure throughout the life of you...

Learn More 13 2Jun 6 '19

Compassionate Empathy: Help your fellow friend

This is the final piece in my Empathy in Tech series, and we'll be talking about the form of empathy...

Learn More 8 0May 29 '19

If you Wannabe (assigned) in my JS Object: Conditionally adding properties to JS Objects

If you've worked with objects in JavaScript, you may have come across situations where you need to op...

Learn More 43 8May 21 '19

Let's end Timed Coding Challenges, Together

Introduction Have you ever started an interview process with a company, and had them send...

Learn More 33 15May 17 '19

Emotional Empathy: Feel What They Feel

When we last left off, we discussed the merits of cognitive empathy and how being...

Learn More 6 0May 1 '19

Cognitive Empathy: Walking in Their Shoes

Have you ever wondered what a situation looks like from another participant's p...

Learn More 2 0Apr 18 '19

How does this make them feel?

I want you to remember the question "How does this make them feel?" . Ask it to...

Learn More 37 0Apr 11 '19