Basti Ortiz

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

Philippines Joined on Oct 19, 2018

Education

University of the Philippines Diliman

Pronouns

he/him

doc-track

A mobile-first document tracking system built for the modern age.

TypeScript • 5 stars

quizzo-bot

A Discord bot for creating quizzes.

Rust • 3 stars

udp-multicast-chat

A simple chat room over UDP multicast written in Rust.

Rust • 2 stars

chrozone

A Discord bot for time-related utilities.

Rust

option-block

A minimal utility Rust crate for small, fixed-size blocks of optional types.

Rust

webrtc-broadcast

An example implementation for a one-to-many WebRTC broadcast written in Rust.

Rust

Currently loving the Rust programming language. 👌

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🌐 5 years of experience with Web technologies (HTML + CSS + JS/TS)
🦀 Rust
🐍 Python
👨‍💻 C++ and Java
👨‍🎨 3D art, image manipulation, and video editing

35 posts published

565 comments written

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Basti Ortiz

Aug 18 '21

The Proper Way to Write Async Constructors in JavaScript

#javascript #typescript #tips #async

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8 min read

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Dec 22 '20

🦀 Rust Reviewed: Is the hype justified? 🦀

#rust #devjournal #dx #reflection

354

11 min read

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Jul 8 '20

18 Essential Videos That Fundamentally Shaped My Understanding of JavaScript

#javascript #node #learning

513

7 min read

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Feb 16 '19

Programming is Hard

#programming #career #culture

575

7 min read

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Feb 3 '19

Please don't "overchain" array methods

#javascript #functional #tips

136

4 min read

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Aug 4 '22

Promises and Events: Some Pitfalls and Workarounds

#javascript #typescript #tips #async

8 min read

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Basti Ortiz

Jul 21 '22

Dipping Toes into Unsafe Code

#showdev #rust #computerscience

10 min read

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Jan 29 '22

How Rust helped me power through my C assignments

#rust #c #computerscience #devjournal

14 min read

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Aug 22 '21

Optimizing Immutable Strings in Rust

#rust #performance #tips

10 min read

Basti Ortiz

Feb 27 '21

Generic `impl` blocks are kinda like macros...

#rust #oop

12 min read

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Jul 31 '20

The Future of "View Page Source"

#webdev #career #culture

5 min read

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Jul 29 '20

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

#javascript #node #performance #tips

9 min read

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Jul 22 '20

Best Practices for ES6 Promises

#javascript #node #performance #tips

8 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jun 19 '20

The Key to Effective Learning is "Constructive Stupidity"

#beginners #career #learning #culture

7 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jun 16 '20

Ciphers and Hashes Explained

#beginners #security #computerscience #crypto

6 min read

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Jun 14 '20

JavaScript Concurrency: Avoiding the Sequential Trap

#javascript #node #performance #async

122

10 min read

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Apr 27 '20

An Introduction to the Server and the Client

#beginners #webdev #networking

9 min read

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Jan 6 '20

Please don't nest promises

#javascript #node #programming #tips

114

5 min read

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Aug 31 '19

The Semantics of Falsy Values

#javascript #semantics #programming

6 min read

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Aug 29 '19

Please don't forget to write the changelog

#ux #writing #tips #opensource

6 min read

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May 7 '19

A Grammar-Based Naming Convention

#beginners #programming #javascript

163

6 min read

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May 1 '19

Thank you to byte-sized integers

#cpp #rust #computerscience

5 min read

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Apr 13 '19

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

#javascript #node #performance

9 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jan 27 '19

The Many Masks of `const`

#cpp #beginners #programming

3 min read

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Jan 16 '19

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

#beginners #cpp #oop #programming

6 min read

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Jan 13 '19

Who or what inspired you to do programming?

#discuss #career #programming

3 min read

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Dec 19 '18

Please don't commit .env

#security #git #opensource #webdev

130

4 min read

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Dec 9 '18

Previewing dev.to's Upcoming Night Mode

#meta

2 min read

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Nov 30 '18

Demystifying the Long Arrow "Operator"

#javascript #programming

126

3 min read

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Nov 16 '18

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

#javascript #oop #functional #programming

5 min read

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Nov 5 '18

"Same Reference" vs. "Same Value"

#computerscience #beginners #javascript

5 min read

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Nov 3 '18

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

#node #javascript #webdev #beginners

8 min read

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Oct 28 '18

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

#computerscience #javascript

9 min read

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Oct 20 '18

The difference between x++ and ++x

#beginners #javascript

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3 min read

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Oct 19 '18

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

#javascript

5 min read

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