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On let vs const — overreacted

My previous post included this paragraph: let vs const vs var: Usually you want let. If you want to forbid assignment to this variable, you can use const. (Some codebases and coworkers are pedantic and force you to use const when there is only one assignment.) This turned out to be very controversial, sparking conversations […]

Uniform list access with subscripts

Accessing values from an array using subscripts is a light and easy way to fetch list data. Kotlin brought uniformity in data access across regular arrays and Lists by allowing us to access data from a List using subscripts. But, what about our custom data models? Can they have subscripts if they mostly represent a […]

The Testaments

Book Review Author : Margaret Atwood Genre : Literary Fiction/Science Fiction and Fantasy Publisher : Penguin Random House Year of Publication : 2019 Number of Pages : 401 My Rating : 5 out of 5 This book is a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. It is set fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s […]

What Is JavaScript Made Of? — overreacted

During my first few years of using JavaScript, I felt like a fraud. Even though I could build websites with frameworks, something was missing. I dreaded JavaScript job interviews because I didn’t have a solid grasp on fundamentals. Over the years, I’ve formed a mental model of JavaScript that gave me confidence. Here, I’m sharing […]

Strobist: SLC-0L-04: Red State, Blue State

To learn to create evocative light with flash, it helps to better understand how we experience the continuous light we see every day. To do that, you’ll need to wean yourself from auto white balance, and even to abandon familiar waypoints like your daylight WB preset. Because our goal is to learn to exist in […]

Modular iOS Architecture @ Just Eat

The journey we took to restructure our mobile apps towards a modular architecture. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog. Overview Modular mobile architectures have been a hot topic over the past 2 years, counting a plethora of articles and conference talks. Almost every big company promoted and discussed modularization publicly as a way […]