These tricks are dozing in JavaScript since ES6 — How well do you know a language? A valid question because I always discover new things in a language, even after years of working. Today is your lucky day. These gems can make your life worthwhile inside your company’s daily grind to become the best of your team. Become a…

Oddities and secrets in JavaScript probably fewer people know — JavaScript isn’t easy to grasp. Often it does something completely different than you might expect. Undefined is a keyword… “I don’t think so, mister!”. This is just a preview of the knowledge you can gather and shine when you get asked about JavaScript. True experts know the details. Many little…

Typescript saves a lot of development time, but is it worth an entire migrating process? — I got you whenever there is a project that should be migrated to another language, your inner voice is shaking and screaming: NO GOD! PLEASE NO! It doesn’t care if you are at work and you have to do it, since coding is your job or…

Losing the fun is not normal — What did any toddler (even you) do once they finished building a castle in the sandbox? The answer to this question is essential to the solution. Exhausted by the same tasks? Stuck in a janitor outfit to maintain the legacy hell until retirement? Whatever it might be, the “fun” left…

Include the inspect-and-adapt cycle to get the aha-effect — Let’s talk about your motivation as a developer regarding maintenance and bug-fixing tasks. Honestly, it’s not the most exciting work, and these tasks have a bit of a bad rep. Be sure these tasks reward you pretty darn great. Here’s the deal: Avoiding these tasks can seriously limit your growth…

Elevate your coding skills and ignite innovation with arrays and list patterns — As you know, Microsoft introduced pattern matching in version 7 of C#. But wait, C#11 brought new masterpieces to the table. Microsoft evolved it into an important and influential control structure for everyday situations. List patterns allow patterns to be applied recursively to the individual elements of a list-like input…

The symbiotic relationship between AI and software professionals — I bet you also use ChatGPT daily to have a lovely little assistant. But don’t you want more? So what if you could use ChatGPT to code for you reliably? Imagine expanding on the list of features, not needing to understand what you are doing, and just getting delivered a…

Generating and solving random mazes: A step-by-step guide with A* algorithm in JavaScript — JavaScript Challenges: Beginner to Master — Task #54 Create a function that generates a random maze and finds the shortest path from the start to the end using a search algorithm. Challenge in Detail Create a function that generates a random maze and finds the shortest path from the start to the end using a search algorithm. The function should take…

Mastering The TSP Problem in JavaScript — JavaScript Challenges: Beginner to Master — Task #53 Create a function that solves the Traveling Salesman Problem using a genetic algorithm Challenge in Detail Create a function that solves the Traveling Salesman Problem using a genetic algorithm. The function should take a list of cities and their coordinates as input and return the shortest possible route, visiting each city exactly once and…