A general-purpose Discrete Event Simulation library written entirely in JavaScript

Back in the late 90’s — when I learned JavaScript — we were taught to write the “Hello World” function using a function statement. Like…

Rain generator to help you relax. Background rain sound for relaxing and working.

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Inspired by the Zeit team’s post on the subject, my team at PayPal recently migrated our main server-side codebase to use Async/Await. I’m…

Back in April I shifted into a platform/architect role in my job at PayPal.

The bar is set high for today’s mobile apps. First, apps must meet the standard of quality that app markets expect. Secondly, mobile app users are very demanding. Plenty of alternatives are available to download, so users will not tolerate a buggy app.
Because…

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With so many amazing designers creating such beautiful animations, any developer would naturally want to recreate them in their own projects. Now, CSS does provide some presets for `transition-timing-function`, which add some level of smoothness and realism…

The ultimate checklist for all serious web developers building modern websites. Make sure your site follows web development best practices.

In the last few years, I’ve seen a lot of code. As a freelancer working on multiple big projects with a lot of people, you’ll inevitably see all varieties of code styles. But I also realized how much writing JavaScript changed over the past years.

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As a designer, your job is to understand your client’s needs. Listening to what they tell you is a good place to start, but it doesn’t end there. You gain much more insight by asking the right ques…

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One of the real delights of programming is picking great variable, method, and class names. But an even greater treat is when you can name pairs, or even whole narratives, that fit just right. And …