Basti Ortiz

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

Philippines Joined on Oct 19, 2018

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University of the Philippines Diliman

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Aug 18 '21

The Proper Way to Write Async Constructors in JavaScript

#javascript #typescript #tips #async

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Dec 22 '20

🦀 Rust Reviewed: Is the hype justified? 🦀

#rust #devjournal #dx #reflection

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11 min read

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Jul 8 '20

18 Essential Videos That Fundamentally Shaped My Understanding of JavaScript

#javascript #node #learning

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7 min read

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Feb 16 '19

Programming is Hard

#programming #career #culture

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7 min read

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Feb 3 '19

Please don't "overchain" array methods

#javascript #functional #tips

135 62

4 min read

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Jan 29

How Rust helped me power through my C assignments

#rust #c #computerscience #devjournal

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14 min read

What to Expect from Python 3.11?

It's very interesting how the latest features in the past few...

Mar 30

Concurrency in modern programming languages: Rust vs Go vs Java vs Node.js vs Deno vs .NET 6

Interesting results! I didn't expect everyone to perform abou...

Feb 4

The Proper Way to Write Async Constructors in JavaScript

Exactly my thoughts here as well! 👌

Feb 3

The Proper Way to Write Async Constructors in JavaScript

Ah, my apologies. I was not clear enough with my phrasing. Wh...

Feb 3

The Proper Way to Write Async Constructors in JavaScript

Well, we must first recall that async functions always return...

Feb 3

How Rust helped me power through my C assignments

That surely sounds like a hassle to deal with. Makes me even ...

Feb 1

How Rust helped me power through my C assignments

Thanks! Now that you've mentioned C, I would like to add that...

Jan 30

How Rust helped me power through my C assignments

Not quite sure which images you are referring to. The code is...

Jan 29

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Aug 22 '21

Optimizing Immutable Strings in Rust

#rust #performance #tips

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10 min read

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Feb 27 '21

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

#rust #oop

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12 min read

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Jul 31 '20

The Future of "View Page Source"

#webdev #career #culture

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5 min read

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Jul 29 '20

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

#javascript #node #performance #tips

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9 min read

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Jul 22 '20

Best Practices for ES6 Promises

#javascript #node #performance #tips

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8 min read

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Jun 19 '20

The Key to Effective Learning is "Constructive Stupidity"

#beginners #career #learning #culture

7 min read

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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

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10 min read

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Apr 27 '20

An Introduction to the Server and the Client

#beginners #webdev #networking

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9 min read

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Jan 6 '20

Please don't nest promises

#javascript #node #programming #tips

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5 min read

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Aug 31 '19

The Semantics of Falsy Values

#javascript #semantics #programming

47 15

6 min read

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Aug 29 '19

Please don't forget to write the changelog

#ux #writing #tips #opensource

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6 min read

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May 7 '19

A Grammar-Based Naming Convention

#beginners #programming #javascript

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6 min read

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May 1 '19

Thank you to byte-sized integers

#cpp #rust #computerscience

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5 min read

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Apr 13 '19

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

#javascript #node #performance

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9 min read

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Jan 27 '19

The Many Masks of `const`

#cpp #beginners #programming

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3 min read

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Jan 16 '19

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

#beginners #cpp #oop #programming

37 2

6 min read

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Jan 13 '19

Who or what inspired you to do programming?

#discuss #career #programming

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3 min read

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Dec 19 '18

Please don't commit .env

#security #git #opensource #webdev

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4 min read

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Dec 9 '18

Previewing dev.to's Upcoming Night Mode

#meta

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2 min read

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Nov 30 '18

Demystifying the Long Arrow "Operator"

#javascript #programming

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Nov 16 '18

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

#javascript #oop #functional #programming

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5 min read

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Nov 5 '18

"Same Reference" vs. "Same Value"

#computerscience #beginners #javascript

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5 min read

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Nov 3 '18

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

#node #javascript #webdev #beginners

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8 min read

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Oct 28 '18

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

#computerscience #javascript

69 31

9 min read

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Oct 20 '18

The difference between x++ and ++x

#beginners #javascript

105 67

3 min read

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Oct 19 '18

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

#javascript

46 26

5 min read

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