Basti Ortiz

Web developer. Open-source contributor. Learner. Writer. Mentor. Leader.

Philippines Joined on Oct 19, 2018 https://bastidood.github.io/

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science @ University of the Philippines Diliman

Pronouns

he/him

Work

Full-stack Engineer @ Verdn (YC W22)

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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

Basti Ortiz

Dec 22 '20

🦀 Rust Reviewed: Is the hype justified? 🦀

#rust #devjournal #dx #reflection

189

11 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jul 8 '20

18 Essential Videos That Fundamentally Shaped My Understanding of JavaScript

#javascript #node #learning

161

7 min read

Basti Ortiz

Feb 16 '19

Programming is Hard

#programming #career #culture

577

7 min read

Basti Ortiz

Feb 3 '19

Please don't "overchain" array methods

#javascript #functional #tips

141

4 min read

Basti Ortiz

Mar 23

The Curse of Verbosity and Indirection

#javascript #java #oop #computerscience

8 min read

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Basti Ortiz

Sep 9 '24

I was wrong about array methods and generators...

#javascript #performance #computerscience #datascience

12 min read

Basti Ortiz

Sep 6 '24

A Compelling Case for the Comma Operator

#beginners #javascript #rust #c

4 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jul 20 '24

Bitmasks are not so esoteric and impractical after all...

#computerscience #javascript #c

9 min read

Basti Ortiz

Oct 15 '23

JavaScript First, Then TypeScript

#javascript #typescript #webdev #devjournal

4 min read

Basti Ortiz

Sep 11 '23

🤖 Svelte Reviewed: A Masterclass on Empowerment 🤖

#svelte #javascript #frontend #devjournal

14 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jul 12 '23

Please don't write confusing conditionals

#beginners #tips #programming #javascript

129

5 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jul 5 '23

Moving Fast: A Retrospective on Trunk-based Development

#git #devjournal #productivity #softwareengineering

7 min read

Basti Ortiz

Aug 4 '22

Promises and Events: Some Pitfalls and Workarounds

#javascript #typescript #tips #async

8 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jul 21 '22

Dipping Toes into Unsafe Code

#showdev #rust #computerscience

10 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jan 29 '22

How Rust helped me power through my C assignments

#rust #c #computerscience #devjournal

14 min read

Basti Ortiz

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

Basti Ortiz

Jul 31 '20

The Future of "View Page Source"

#webdev #career #culture

5 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jul 29 '20

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

#javascript #node #performance #tips

9 min read

Basti Ortiz

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

Basti Ortiz

Jun 14 '20

JavaScript Concurrency: Avoiding the Sequential Trap

#javascript #node #performance #async

127

10 min read

Basti Ortiz

Apr 27 '20

An Introduction to the Server and the Client

#beginners #webdev #networking

9 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jan 6 '20

Please don't nest promises

#javascript #node #programming #tips

120

5 min read

Basti Ortiz

Aug 31 '19

The Semantics of Falsy Values

#javascript #semantics #programming

6 min read

Basti Ortiz

Aug 29 '19

Please don't forget to write the changelog

#ux #writing #tips #opensource

6 min read

Basti Ortiz

May 7 '19

A Grammar-Based Naming Convention

#beginners #programming #javascript

169

6 min read

Basti Ortiz

May 1 '19

Thank you to byte-sized integers

#cpp #rust #computerscience

5 min read

Basti Ortiz

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

Basti Ortiz

Jan 16 '19

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

#beginners #cpp #oop #programming

6 min read

Basti Ortiz

Jan 13 '19

Who or what inspired you to do programming?

#discuss #career #programming

3 min read

Basti Ortiz

Dec 19 '18

Please don't commit .env

#security #git #opensource #webdev

142

4 min read

Basti Ortiz

Dec 9 '18

Previewing dev.to's Upcoming Night Mode

#meta

2 min read

Basti Ortiz

Nov 30 '18

Demystifying the Long Arrow "Operator"

#javascript #programming

126

3 min read

Basti Ortiz

Nov 16 '18

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

#javascript #oop #functional #programming

5 min read

Basti Ortiz

Nov 5 '18

"Same Reference" vs. "Same Value"

#computerscience #beginners #javascript

5 min read

Basti Ortiz

Nov 3 '18

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

#node #javascript #webdev #beginners

8 min read

Basti Ortiz

Oct 28 '18

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

#computerscience #javascript

10 min read

Basti Ortiz

Oct 20 '18

The difference between x++ and ++x

#beginners #javascript

116

3 min read

Basti Ortiz

Oct 19 '18

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

#javascript

5 min read