Of course, no video games have been announced for it yet — The NFT community will never cease to amaze me with their ludicrous attempts at sweeping more money from the easily manipulated youth. As if the mere existence of NFT-powered video games isn’t ridiculous enough — I mean, they offer literally no advantage over traditional video games besides providing developers with…

Avoid taking shortcuts to get a lucrative software development job — You always see the same question asked in programming communities. “What programming language should I learn first?”. Newcomers to software development often jest about being paralyzed by choice. There are too many options, so which language is one to learn? Typically, the answers will be something along the lines of…

The 8-hour workday is a gray-haired remnant of the past — The 40-hour workweek is a gray-haired remnant that has overstayed its welcome. Even though people are more productive than ever before, we still spend a ludicrous amount of our lives working. Yes, sometimes credited to Henry Ford, who streamlined the 40-hour workweek in the USA by…

Many professions struggle with issues developers overcame years ago — Every software developer knows about and uses Git. It’s a collection of software for tracking changes and is a necessity for collaborating on projects. Git allows developers to work on the same files simultaneously by tracking version history and providing powerful merging capabilities. Even if a piece of software were…

Game settings don’t need to be huge to be impactful — Neon lights sparkle into my face as I make my way over to Club Sunshine from the Grand. Though Sunshine is on the other side of Sotenbori, it’s not a long walk. I know these streets by heart. I’d need neither map nor compass to find my favorite sushi…

The logical AND and OR operators can actually return non-Boolean values. — As a software developer, you are most definitely acquainted with the nullish coalescing operator (??). In the rare event that you’re unfamiliar with this operator, let me give you a quick introduction to how it works. If value a is null or undefined, return b. Otherwise, return a. Today…

Lab-grown meat may allow us to get creative with our meat — Yes, literally. Let’s play with the idea that you could go to the grocery store and buy meat made of the various body parts of Elon Musk, Leonardo DiCaprio, or Beyonce. What if you could grab 300 grams of DiCaprio, go home, fry it, and serve it with a side…

An introduction to what happens when you add unexpected data types together — JavaScript (JS) is famous for many things — one of which is its heavy usage of type coercion. Type coercion is the act of automatically or implicitly converting a value from one data type to another. The age-old beginner’s introduction to this phenomenon is one that occurs in many different…

Cultured meat comes with many benefits — Whether you know it as lab-grown, cultured, or cultivated meat, you may have heard of this futuristic food developed in labs. By harmlessly extracting cells from live animals, scientists have been able to grow real meat in labs, not far from how plants are grown from seeds. Since the first…