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I loved a 2009 game called Artificial Life. It simulated real-time evolution of protozoa. I took a crack at rebuilding a modern, in-browser version based on that experience. The new version features emergent behaviors, predator-prey dynamics, and a dynamic ecosystem.
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I turned a portfolio rebuild into a craft exercise by hiding a gacha-style rarity system in the background animations. Fifteen variants, weighted probability, Cloudflare Workers, and a collector’s page nobody knows about. Sometimes you build things because they make the work yours.
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Last time, we talked about my motivations for building a Slack autoresponder so I can better communicate with my colleagues. Today we’ll walk through the components required and all the steps for wiring together the full application. Serverless Framework First things first, we need to build the application itself. We’ll be leveraging the Serverless framework,…
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The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are legion; millions contracted the disease, hundreds of thousands have died, schools are closed, businesses are closed, the economy is in turmoil, and I’m working remotely once again. This last impact is the least concern, but as a software developer it’s also the easiest thing for me to address…
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ES6 gave us classes and object inheritance in JavaScript. However, it’s still missing any concept of “privacy” in OO terms. Here’s a hacky workaround to, maybe, make things work.
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Always sanitize and/or validate the inputs of every function before assuming the data is valid.
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JavaScript really is powerful, if you know how to use it …
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Never trust user input, even if it’s coming from an allegedly trustworthy source.
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I built an app last night that allows me to look up bus arrival times via SMS. It took me 2 hours. Node is incredible!
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One of the first critiques I find myself writing while I review JavaScript code is “cache your selectors.”