A stylish guide to styled components #1
by The relationship between developers and CSS is kind of weird. By the time we can have a good time making a drawing or some impressive …
Category: Beginner
CodeTips#4: Debugging Ruby applications
by When our code is behaving unexpectedly, our first attempt is usually trying to understand why it happened, but just thinking about it might not be …
Adding a new technology or concept in your team (the correct way)
by Sometimes when we are developing some chunks of code, we start to question why I am doing it this way? Should I do it in …
Integers overflow and underflowWhat happens if we go off the limits of a predetermined space?
by As we all should know already, memory is not an infinite resource despite looking like it. Given our current scenario where hardware is relatively cheap, …
Using Docker to instantiate local databasesA minimalist guide on the Docker way of setting up local databases
by From tutorials to enterprise-level software, knowing how to set up a local database instance is a mandatory skill. You’ve probably had to go through tons …
CodeTips#3: How Specificity works in CSS
by When working on web apps, at some point, you will need to overwrite styles from components to which you have no access to the CSS …
CodeTips#2: Clean code in JavaScriptA beginner's approach
by INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION I believe the comic strip above sums it well: You write clean code mainly to understand yourself in the future. Not only that, …
A beginner’s personal journey into automated tests
by Like many engineers, I landed into coding kind of by accident. I was programming alone and unsupervised for a decade and my work was mostly …
CodeTips#1: Exploring Hashes in Ruby
by Hello, fellow readers! Before we can jump right in, we have an announcement! There is a new series of posts here in the blog: CodeTips! …
Elixir/Erlang: Tail Call Optimization is not enoughFeelings after researching and experimenting on Tail Call Optimization
by In this article, we’ll be talking about a widespread concept of Functional Programming called Tail Call Recursion (or Tail Call Optimization or just Tail Call). …