As a self-taught developer, it’s easy to feel like you missed out on something, and assume your colleagues who did get a degree know more than you. Your colleagues know about algorithms and CS concepts like data structures and you most likely don’t. Does having a degree or not having a degree even matter? In … →

I switched to Yarn a while ago, because Npm is incredibly limited. And while I enjoy fast speed on macOs and Linux, Windows has always been a bit slow. I never actually thought to investigate the issue until one frustrated evening, I had the task manager open and noticed Windows Defender was going crazy when … →

I love Firebase. The power and flexibility of using it alongside my favourite client-side framework Aurelia, unrivalled. Recently whilst building the Built With Aurelia website which uses Firebase, I wanted the ability for logged in users to vote on particular submissions. My Firebase structure is literally the following: submissions: { pokegorun: { added: 1470919840796, category: … →

Let’s cut the crap, as great as Npm is for front-end and Node.js development, it has some pretty glaring issues. Firstly, code is pulled down without any kind of integrity checks being done, so you could be pulling down anything. Secondly, Npm takes forever to install dependencies (downloading as well as unpacking), it is the … →

I am all for developers pushing themselves, learning new things and refining their skills, but the one thing that really annoys me about front-end development right at this moment, is the opinion terrorists who are raving about functional programming. A few examples of the pro functional movement can be seen; here, here, here, here and … →

I am not the kind of developer who jumps on bandwagons and uses whatever new tool is released or replaces another. However, after using Aurelia for over a year now and putting up with the numerous breaking changes in Jspm and System.js causing issues with Aurelia, I have had enough. This will not be a … →

If you are using the TypeScript Skeleton application provided by the Aurelia team, then at the time of writing this, the project is still using TSD (well it has a tsd.d.ts file in the typings folder). The TypeScript Definition Manager as of a few hours ago of writing this post has been deprecated in favour … →

If you are a TypeScript user like me, then you most likely used TSD aka TypeScript Definition manager for DefinitelyTyped. Now that TSD has officially been deprecated, you can either stick with TSD for the moment or upgrade to Typings now. Firstly, lets uninstall TSD. You might have it installed locally and globally depending on … →