When I went into 2018, one of the New Year's resolutions I set for myself was to write more often. Up to that point, most of my writing was for either school assignments or essays, and seldom was it for recreation, not to mention

As a user of Heroku's free tier, I know how annoying it is to deal with the 30-minute inactivity timeout imposed on dynos. I don't mind the few seconds it takes when seldom used applications like my database manager goes to sleep, but the

I occasionally come across a sentence written as follows: He wrote computer codes at home.The "correct" way to say it would be like this: He wrote computer code at home."Code" is used as a mass noun in computer science. Whether it be

Last month, I was working on a Node.js project which involved Promises. When I was looking at example code from various sources, I noticed several different ways in which values were returned from promises. I'll go over the four methods I saw, and

In an effort to further my knowledge on Node.js, I decided to write a simple Node.js module. This would also be a chance to play around with ES6's syntax (because it's awesome). ProblemIt was just another Sunday of my soon-to-end summer break.

So you might have heard here and there about a computer called the Raspberry Pi. In case you haven't, here's a picture of it so you know what I'm talking about: It's actually not that big; it's essentially a credit card-sized computer. Neither is

After yet another 366 days, it is finally another year. Hopefully this year, with the help of my friends and family, I can climb yet another mountain. But first and foremost, I need to get all my goals out of my head and into

2016 is coming to a close very soon, and I'm glad we've all made it this far. This was a particularly important year, for both the world and me. Through the span of the entire year, I've climbed yet another steep learning curve. The

I made it my goal back in February to start learning how to use  Node.js, and was finally able to start after nearly ten months of pushing it off. I had just finished development on Faceclash, which I can confidently say was the

I've been moving from service to service, looking for the best one to host my blog on. I'd love to write about everything I encounter, and a blog is what I would consider, a public diary. But the search for one has taken me

Having good grades only shows you're capable of getting good grades. It isn't an indicator of future success. The successful people don't learn what they are required to learn, and instead, they put the things that they want to learn in front. These people

Not too many people know this, but I actually started making websites in the seventh grade. I didn’t actually write them, however. During that time, I was in a club named the Muscatel Mathletes, and my math teacher, Mr. Wu, showed as how