If your journey to programming was anything like mine, you started by looking at HTML forms to understand data transfer across HTTP. There is a lot of talk about REST and what it means on the web. I have heard people talk about the formatt ...

At this point it seems like everyone knows about URLs. People can rattle off google.com and myfavoritesportsteam.net, but knowing domain names is not the same as really understanding URLs. URLs, AKA Uniform Resource Locators, actually adhe ...

As SPAs become more common for web application development, the concept of state is moving almost completely out of the realm of servers and services and into the browser, and rightly so. Ideally services should only maintain state as pers ...

Javascript comes with a variety of types, and with ES 2015 and beyond, we are seeing new types emerge like sets and symbols. The primitive data types come with a standard set of comparison rules and default behaviors which make them espec ...

It was pointed out to me the other day that I suffer from the curse of knowledge. What this basically means is, I know something so I don't understand what it means to NOT know that thing. This can happen in any aspect of life and it's com ...

Regardless of whether you prefer raw callbacks or promises, there comes a time where asynchronous behavior pops up in your application. It's an artifact of working on the web and working with Javascript. This means that, although a functio ...

In object oriented design, the decorator pattern is commonly used to extend and enhance classes so they perform some new or more refined functionality. In functional programming it is possible to decorate functions as well. The decoration ...

I have spent the last several months writing two blog posts per week. I have really enjoyed writing both the Mainstay Monday and the regular Wednesday posts, but time is a limited resource. I have started a new writing project which will ...

Recently in my Mainstay Monday posts I've talked about creating linked lists and queues in Javascript. Each of those topics is so dense that just writing about the basics of creating and using them took full blog posts. Really all of that ...

If you're reading this you're likely already a programmer. This means you have likely used [].sort() in your code many times. I honestly can't remember how many times I've sorted data one way or another. Just because you've called sort on ...