Essays

Learning more than just coding

13 Dec 2023

One thing is learning to code …but being a software engineer requires a lof of other skills as well. It’s like how a carpenter needs to know how to use a hammer, but also how to design solid structures and...

Software Engineering The whole package

Choosing optimal design

30 Nov 2023

Starting without a plan It’s not until you actually start building big projects, you realize that you need to have a plan for you code. You can’t just start writing, and hope everything works together well. What if you come...

Design patterns

Using AI to get better

16 Nov 2023

Introduction Just like everyone else, I was stunned and surprised when OpenAI launched their first publicly available ChatGPT model. I had previously been introduced to applications of AI that impressed me, like how Siri works, and how it’s possible to...

AI ChatGPT GitHub CoPilot

UI Framworks

03 Oct 2023

Reaching the front As a guy with no previous experience with frontend development, I had a hard time when one of my college classes started requiring me to build webpages in HTML and CSS. The progress was slow, I had...

Bootstrap5 HTML CSS

Standarizing my code

21 Sep 2023

I needed a tool I have just been introduced to coding standards. And it feels like the tool I’ve been missing, since the day I started coding. After some time of fiddling around with getting the syntax right, I have...

ESLint Standards

To ask or not to ask, that is the question

07 Sep 2023

No problem is unique Three and a half years ago, I started my coding career. Throughout those years I’ve encountered so many problems I didn’t know the answer to, that I could’ve been a problem finder, as a full-time job....

StackOverflow Smart questions

A new language, please

31 Aug 2023

Starting off right The Internet is full of videos titled “How I would learn to code if I could start over today”. These videos usually feature a software developer, with apparently years of experience, reflecting upon his or her programming...

Python Java JavaScript My future

Practice makes... better

30 Aug 2023

JavaScript is a hot topic People talk about JavaScript. A lot. I hear about JavaScript all over the place. Yet, I had never seen JavaScript code. Before I started my third year of studies. The minute I walked into the...

JavaScript Practice