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Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Just some dood trying to make code work without bringing the Universe to its demise.

Philippines Joined on Oct 19, 2018

skills/languages

🔒 Privacy advocate
🌐 4 years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript technologies (both browser and Node.js environments)
🦀 Rust (Simple CLI apps)
🐍 Python (Blender and simple scripting)
👨‍💻 "Okay" knowledge of C++ and Java
🤦‍♂️ Tried PHP *once*
👨‍🎨 3D art, image manipulation, and video editing
🎮 Some experience with the Godot game engine

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Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jul 8

18 Essential Videos That Fundamentally Shaped My Understanding of JavaScript

#javascript #node #learning

7 min read

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Feb 16 '19

Programming is Hard

#programming #career #culture

7 min read

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Feb 3 '19

Please don't "overchain" array methods

#javascript #functional #tips

4 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Nov 30 '18

Demystifying the Long Arrow "Operator"

#javascript #programming

3 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Oct 20 '18

The difference between x++ and ++x

#beginners #javascript

3 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jul 31

The Future of "View Page Source"

#webdev #career #culture

5 min read

Recent Comments

re: In Defense of Defensive Programming Oct 2

That is definitely true. I must concede that it does sound a ...

re: In Defense of Defensive Programming Oct 2

Glad to see this discussion again. I agree with your overall ...

re: Please don't commit .env Sep 30

To be honest, I am not exactly versed in the Google Cloud Pla...

re: September 3rd, 2020: What did you learn this week? Sep 4

I learned a whole lot of Rust this week! I absolutely love th...

re: NaN - It's Not A Number🙄 Aug 23

I agree. NaN is really just an unfortunate (but equally appro...

re: NaN - It's Not A Number🙄 Aug 23

But in memory, it is still stored as a floating-point number,...

re: NaN - It's Not A Number🙄 Aug 23

Just to clear things up, NaN is just a specially formatted nu...

re: We want to feature your voice on DevDiscuss! This week's topic: serverless and the cloud. Aug 20

The pricing model for various Cloud services have always conf...

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jul 29

Best Practices for ES2017 Asynchronous Functions (`async`/`await`)

#javascript #node #performance #tips

9 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jul 22

Best Practices for ES6 Promises

#javascript #node #performance #tips

8 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jun 19

The Key to Effective Learning is "Constructive Stupidity"

#beginners #career #learning #culture

7 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jun 16

Ciphers and Hashes Explained

#beginners #security #computerscience #crypto

6 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jun 14

JavaScript Concurrency: Avoiding the Sequential Trap

#javascript #node #performance #async

10 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Apr 27

An Introduction to the Server and the Client

#beginners #webdev #networking

9 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jan 6

Please don't nest promises

#javascript #node #programming #tips

5 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Aug 31 '19

The Semantics of Falsy Values

#javascript #semantics #programming

6 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Aug 29 '19

Please don't forget to write the changelog

#ux #writing #tips #opensource

6 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

May 7 '19

A Grammar-Based Naming Convention

#beginners #programming #javascript

6 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

May 1 '19

Thank you to byte-sized integers

#cpp #rust #computerscience

5 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Apr 13 '19

A Pedant's Experiment on Optimizing Callback Functions for Array Iteration

#javascript #node #performance

9 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jan 27 '19

The Many Masks of `const`

#cpp #beginners #programming

3 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jan 16 '19

An Introduction to Overloading Operators (for Beginners by a Beginner)

#beginners #cpp #oop #programming

6 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Jan 13 '19

Who or what inspired you to do programming?

#discuss #career #programming

3 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Dec 19 '18

Please don't commit .env

#security #git #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Dec 9 '18

Previewing dev.to's Upcoming Night Mode

#meta

2 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Nov 16 '18

Emulating "Private" Variables in JavaScript with Closures and Factory Functions

#javascript #oop #functional #programming

5 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Nov 5 '18

"Same Reference" vs. "Same Value"

#computerscience #beginners #javascript

5 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Nov 3 '18

Node.js: Breaking JavaScript out of the browser since 2009

#node #javascript #webdev #beginners

8 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Oct 28 '18

Bitmasks: A very esoteric (and impractical) way of managing booleans

#computerscience #javascript

9 min read

Basti Ortiz (Some Dood)

Oct 19 '18

Remembering that "functions are objects" can help in writing more concise code

#javascript

5 min read

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