Quick overview of ways to iterate an array in TypeScript. Continue reading...

I am sitting in my study, it’s dark and completely silent, I am in the creative flow, typing away the last lines of code for my new Chromecast game. I hit build and strange sound fills the room. This strange sound might fool someone into thinking that I am about to make serious breakthrough in molecular physics. But in reality my Macbook Air is trying to build 200 unique lines of code wrapped in megabytes of Android libraries. My flow is gone, and I am left with flashbacks of Android development from five years ago. Continue reading...

My top article finds this week:

• Api Design guide from Google
• Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
• Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning
• Scaling your API with rate limiters
• Build your own Lisp and learn C

My side project game is at its all time low. Maybe I am using unhealthy comparison with myself during college years when I did not need to care about grownup stuff. But only shipping a tiny, two page app per year is sad. Strange part is that I am still constantly hacking on side projects, nothing has changed there. Where are those projects now? Oh, right, they have been abandoned before reaching “shippable” state. After some retrospective on previously successful and failed projects I think I have found why this is happening. Continue reading...

Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD) and RequireJS was my choice for Javascript code modularization for last four years. But enterprise web application I am working on is growing and it's harder and harder to manage the code base. I did some technical research and decided to migrate the project to TypeScript. Continue reading...