Programming Articles

Some technologies, like PHP, goto, and bubblesort, raise concern just by mentioning them. By understanding their history better, we can better improve our own programming skills.

By using middleware to serve different routes to public and authenticated users, you can keep public pages zippy, while letting your team preview in a real environment.

How can the way we write our code set up future developers for success?

Learn how to count billions of distinct elements quickly, using very little memory.

Ignore the scary maths, let’s look at a simplified model for understanding floating point numbers under the hood.

Concurrent React and Suspense are shaping up to heavily change how dynamic data-driven UIs are built.

Or, how classes are implemented in terms of prototypes

Or why sometimes 128 != 128 in Java.

Moves in C++ don’t require understanding of deep technical juju to get a grasp on.

How a combination of unexpected pointer arithmetic and enum implicit conversion made some simple and idiomatic code break.

There’s a lot of myths and odd-questions around lambdas. This guide will give you a deeper understanding of their rules and how they work.

Lambdas are regularly seen as a confusing topic for all levels of developer. In reality, they’re a shorter way to write very specific classes.

C++ functions do not actually require a return keyword in them to be well-formed and compile, though it will likely cause undefined behaviour.

tl;dr: Variables declared in if statement conditions are accessible in the else statement as well.

When we write code, we should take a moment to consider, “If someone else was reading this for the first time, what would they expect?

When working in a large code-base, keeping functions short and atomic can help a great deal when managing other people's code.

Using a neat bit of maths, we can generate an infinite list of unique contrasting colours.