The Node.js Mentorship Initiative solves a very specific pain point experienced by many groups who maintain a popular open source project. Open source projects need people to contribute to the project in a number of ways. The Mentorship Initiative he...
Implementing algorithms can be tricky because it's possible to write an implementation that builds and runs, but the outcome may be incorrect. An understanding of the algorithm is the best tool for implementing that algorithm correctly. In addition, ...
In The Algorithm Design Manual, Skiena outlines heuristics for solving problems involving algorithms contained in the book. The heuristic starts with modelling the problem by looking at the constraints and the needs of the software and the business. ...
During October of 2020, CircleCI hosted Orbtoberfest alongside Hacktoberfest, which is a month-long event encouraging contributions to open source projects. CircleCI offered two different challenges, both of which are viable ways of participating in ...
Many people have written about automated testing, and some of the ideas from those writings inform the way I evaluate React's Docs Testing Recipes. In particular, my evaluation is organized around the ideas of implementation, state, and separation of...
I spent the past three months completing projects for the Quality Assurance Certification and the APIs and Microservices Certification from freeCodeCamp (fcc). In addition to passing fcc's automated testing, I wanted my projects to be informed by the...