A guide to using sarcasm as a literary device — We all know the feeling: It’s Friday, 3 PM, and you just want to watch a mindless sitcom with your significant other. You have this in mind for weeks, and it is an experience that will be shared between two (hopefully) laughing individuals. The evening has arrived and you get…

Boost your web app’s performance by writing optimized code and using Chrome DevTools — If you prefer to watch, you can check my video course here which contains more details about JavaScript memory leaks. It’s sitting there innocently. Yet, it continues to gobble up more and more of your valuable resources. It starts to slow to a crawl, which blows up your frustration. All…

To build a unicorn company you need risk-tolerance and data — “If you aren’t willing to take that leap now, then when are you willing to?” He thinks to himself. After completing one year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he continued to interview for summer internship opportunities and received positive feedback from DeepMind, Stripe, Snapchat, and Opendoor. But now…

Ask the questions, do root cause analysis, and more — “How can I get better at solving problems? I understand JavaScript now, but I can’t really solve problems or understand any complicated JavaScript code,” asked me recently young developer on my contact list. Problem-solving is a critical element of our careers because writing great code is a creative art, and…

Directive composition API, stable standalone APIs, less boilerplate code, better performance, and more — On November 16, 2022, Google released the fifteenth major version of its Angular framework. Just like many members of the community, I feel very excited about the great improvements it brought to the ecosystem. In this post, I’ll dig deeper into the new features and dozens of refinements and break…

If you read one article about closure and scoping in JavaScript, read this one — The first time I heard the word “closure” was over a decade ago. Yet it still represents a kind of “black hole” to me. In 2012, I had a job interview in which I was asked to define what “JavaScript closures” are. I couldn’t help but say that they are…

Hands-on using tailwind CSS in an Angular project — One of the remarkable things I did this year is to learn tailwind CSS and use it in some of my projects. I loved the wide range of CSS classes it offers to developers to fulfill their needs and the beautiful UI that we can create by using the framework…

Hands-on with Angular Container/Presenter design pattern — It was in the summer of 2020 when I discovered and fell in love with the container/presenter pattern, then I started using it in my Angular projects and got very satisfying results. I’ve struggled with having mixed concerns in my components, which violated many principles of software development and made…

#2 Understand selective attention — Ok, what does an empathic writer actually mean? An empathic writer is someone who can feel the emotions of the characters they are writing about. They are able to imagine themselves in the story, empathize with other people’s experiences, identify with others’ thoughts and feelings, and connect with readers on…