3 Approaches to Solving the New Year Chaos Logic Problem
Software engineer, Jonathan Walters, breaks down three approaches he took to solve the New Year Chaos logic problem from HackerRank.
Continue Reading Getting My Feet Wet with Deep Learning and Word2Vec
After listening to this episode of Practical AI, I got interested in experimenting with Word2Vec. According to wikipedia, Word2vec is a group of related models that are used to produce word embeddings. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but from what I understand, it can be used to make educated guesses about related words. For example, […]
Continue ReadingEven Easier Dark Mode for Slack
This post will show you how to write a bash script to re-darken Slack on MacOS with a single command and save your dark-mode-accustomed eyes from the stress of unnecessary light theme exposure.
Continue ReadingManaging Technical Debt: Etiquette, Tips, and Techniques
There are many moving parts involved in product delivery. Ideally, we never utilize developer shortcuts or compromises. And even when we knowingly take shortcuts, the intention is always to come back and clean this up eventually.
Continue ReadingDoing Algebra in Code: Looking Past the Details To Focus on the Math
The hard part of this was recognizing the algebra beneath layers of domain-specific business rules.
Continue ReadingWhy Coding Without If-Statements Can Help Make Better Code
Coding without if-statements is one method for learning other ways to structure your code. That doesn’t mean never use if-statements. Being careful with conditional logic makes better code. Here’s why.
Continue ReadingSass Imports from NPM: Why We Built sassy-npm-importer
We have been looking for a more elegant way to load Sass from packages like foundation-sites. So we created an npm module which exports a custom loader for node-sass.
Continue ReadingReact Testing with Jasmine: A Simpler Way
You might want to avoid Jest if you don’t need its features, don’t like its conventions, or if Jest is incompatible with your other tools. If you choose not to use Jest, you can use Jasmine directly instead.
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