I am a CTO with over 5 years of experience in start-up and over 10 years in working at managing position for big companies. I am also a full-stacks developer with over 12 years in system design, product development and technology product deployment. User experience and system security are the things I care about most.
How my open source project earned 6,000 stars on GitHub in just 5 days
Last month I launched two open source projects on GitHub. A few days later, my Front-End Checklist [https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist] was showing more than 6,000 stars (17,000 as of writing). And I got 600 stars for my Resources-Front-End-Beginner [https://github.com/thedaviddias/Resources-Front-End-Beginner] project! It was unexpected for me to receive such support coming
How CSS specificity works in the browser
by Michael Ozoemena How CSS specificity works in the browser A lot of people find CSS really difficult. They blame that on a number of reasons like they aren’t wired to understand CSS or CSS is bad or any number of other reasons. But most people find CSS difficult because
The world’s easiest introduction to WebAssembly?
by Martin Olsansky (olso) The world’s easiest introduction to WebAssembly? WASM in Golang for JavaScript developers. An interactive
The Virtual DOM is slow. Meet the Memoized DOM
by Sindre Osen Aarsaether The Virtual DOM is slow. Meet the Memoized DOM. Moving beyond the Virtual DOM and State Management The virtual DOM was a fantastic innovation. It brought about a much more productive way of writing web applications by allowing us to write our views in a declarative
How to create a store using pure functions
Discover Functional JavaScript [https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07PBQJYYG&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_cm5KCbE5BDJGE] was named one of the best new Functional Programming books by BookAuthority [https://bookauthority.org/books/new-functional-programming-books?t=7p46zt&s=award&book=1095338781] ! Pure functions produce the same output value, given the same input. They have no side-effects, and are easier to read, understand and test. Given all this, I would like to crea
React-cache, time slicing, and fetching with a synchronous API
by Marvin Frachet React-cache, time slicing, and fetching with a synchronous API Well, this year seems to be the year of React. You’ve probably heard of the new killer feature that is coming with the 16.7-alpha.0 — Hooks. You’ve probably also heard about some other great and cool stuff like
The Cover Letter that Got me a Remote Front End Developer Job
Some people seem to think that you can skip the cover letter on job applications and it isn’t needed in this day and age. I think they see it as extra work that holds them back from applying for more jobs. But that’s looking at it all wrong. If a
How to Use Pure CSS to Create a Beautiful Loading Animation for your App
If you’ve been around the internet lately, you’ve most likely seen a nice subtle loading animation that fills page content before gracefully loading in. Some of the social giants like Facebook even use this approach to give page loading a better experience. How can we do that with just