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There are many ways to traverse an array in Javascript. In this benchmark, we will look at five different ways and the pros and cons of each. Keep in mind that...
Once upon a time, a company I worked for had a problem, we had thousands of messages flowing through our data pipeline every second, and we wanted to be able to...
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Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming. Let’s take a look at what they are, when to (maybe) use them, an...
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Why You Should Learn Computer Science
Software engineering and computer science are not the same. Computer scientists aren’t always software engineers, and unfortunately, many software engineers don...
For the most part, I’ve found that Go developers are pretty good at using global constants for configuration rather than global variables. However, a problem ar...
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The Proper Use of Pointers in Go (Golang)
Go has become increasingly popular in recent years, especially in my local area. It has been consistently displacing other backend languages like Ruby, Python,...
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Systems and Processes that Aren't in Code are Terrifying
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten about. I don’t know how to find these systems reliably, I don’...
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How to Secure Your Bitcoin
If you’re new to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, you may have heard the common phrase not your keys not your coins. While self-custody isn’t for everyone, its the o...
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How to Recursively Traverse JSON Objects
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a while I need to write a function that operates on a tree of unkn...
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Security in Dependencies
Choosing the right dependencies is a difficult task. Assuming the developer of an application is the best programmer in the world, the “best” thing to do would...
This is a tutorial on how to set up an Electron app on Travis CI, so that new versions are deployed to Github Releases with a simple pull request. I created a b...
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Encoding vs Encryption - They Aren't the Same
While encryption does involve various methods of encoding data, the two are absolutely not interchangeable. In fact, if you get them mixed up it can result in s...
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BIP 32 Watch-Only Wallets
Bitcoin improvement proposal 32 is, in my opinion, one of the most important BIPs we have. (Thanks Peter Wuille!) BIP 32 gave us Hierarchical Deterministic Wall...
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Creating and Remembering a Strong Passphrase
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords. Unique passwords however present a difficult prob...
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Trustworthy vs Trustless Apps
In the wake of the hearings about Facebook’s new Libra blockchain, it is more important than ever that we all understand the difference between trustworthy and...