The idea of strongly typing data in JavaScript is becoming a hotly debated subject. Supporters of the current status-quo, where JavaScript does not enforce types of any kind, have long sustained the notion that the dynamism of the language is one of its strong features; that you need to be able to assign any value […]
Continue reading →Programming is a journey of continuous learning. There is an immense collection of programming paradigms to be learned, many of which require a good amount of experience before they start making sense. Still, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over time about my trade is not exactly on how to write code. It’s identifying […]
Continue reading →Math has never been my strong suit. At school, it was always the subject I’d get my worst grades. I didn’t attend college for Mathematics or computer sciences either. Overall it has always been a subject I had difficulty with, and it was only when I actually started working as a programmer – most especially, […]
Continue reading →About 12 years ago I created a font called Perfect DOS VGA 437 to be used in a Flash-based ANSI Art viewer (the original post is full of broken links, but the font is available at DaFont). At the time, I assumed it was a perfect clone of DOS’s Code Page 437, the one used […]
Continue reading →As it should be obvious to anyone following my rants on Twitter, I’ve been playing with TypeScript quite a little bit recently. And although I haven’t created any huge project with it, I have been embracing it little by little on everything I’ve been doing that requires JavaScript. This past weekend I had free time […]
Continue reading →After 3 years with the old design, this website has a new template. This time around, I started from an existing template I’ve been using on another blog, called Graphy. This is a lightweight, easy-to-read template that is better attuned with today’s web reading sensibilities – meaning, mostly, that I’m not using itty bitty tiny […]
Continue reading →I was recently working on a mobile Unity project at home and I wanted to take advantage of Android’s immersive mode, which allows you to hide elements of the OS chrome such as the navigation bar or the status (top) bar. Unity itself has a Screen.fullScreen property that tries to control the appearance of the […]
Continue reading →In January 2009, I was at Campus Party Brasil. This was the second edition of this big LAN party in the country, and as was the norm with the event, they hosted a number of presentations, many of them geared towards developers. One of the several presentations I watched was by Microsoft. They were basically […]
Continue reading →I may like charts too much. A while ago, I created a chart depicting all the programming platforms I’ve had used over the years: This was initially created mostly to illustrate the fact that the fall in popularity of Flash and ActionScript wasn’t a surprising event – technologies constantly come and go – but when […]
Continue reading →Computing has come a long way in the past few decades. Originally, programmers used to write code by themselves, using punch cards, and only later be allowed to run them on machines. The end result was a process of writing code and debugging as completely separated steps. I never used punch cards (I’m not that […]
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