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.
Making the web more accessible with AI
Most people see the Internet as a place full of text, images, and videos. But the Internet is something completely different for people who are visually impaired. Screen readers, tools that read text and metadata on a web page, are limited. They only show one aspect of a web page
I gave 16 tech talks at coding events and conferences. Here’s what I learned.
For several years now, I‘ve been watching tons of online conference talks. I’m always impressed by the willingness of people in the tech community to openly share knowledge with each other. So many people go out of their way to create free online learning materials or help out when you
Three years ago I attended a coding bootcamp. Today I became a Google Developer Advocate.
This is the story of my journey and how I got there I am a Google Developer Expert in Web TechnologiesWhat is a Google Developers Expert? Let me start with Google’s official definition, and then I will follow with my definition. A Google Developers Expert (GDE) is a person recognized
What were the best free online courses of 2017? You decide.
If you haven’t heard, universities around the world offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). You can find more than 8,000 such courses on a website I’ve been operating since 2011 called Class Central [https://www.class-central.com]. Class Central’s users have also written more than 30,000 reviews for
Let’s experiment with functional generators and the pipeline operator in JavaScript
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] ! > A generator is a function that returns the next value from the sequence each time it is called. Combining functional generators with the pipeline operator and pure functions w
How to understand your program’s memory
by Tiago Antunes How to understand your program’s memory When coding in a language like C or C++ you can interact with your memory in a more low-level way. Sometimes this creates a lot of problems you didn’t get before: segfaults. These errors are rather annoying, and can cause you
My latest bugfix: or, how I went spelunking in someone else’s code
by Tiffany White My latest bugfix: or, how I went spelunking in someone else’s code I love CodeSandbox [https://codesandbox.io/]. It has pretty much replaced CodePen for me unless I am fiddling around with CSS or freeCodeCamp front-end projects. I like going through the sandboxes and picking out different ones to
Escaping the Curse of Dimensionality
How do machines ‘see’? Or, in general, how can computers reduce an input of complex, high-dimensional data into a more manageable number of features? Extend your open hand in front of a nearby light-source, so that it casts a shadow against the nearest surface. Rotate your hand and study how