Today we will be talking about JSON Pointer which is a string based syntax for interacting with a JSON object. It was first defined in 2013 as part of rfc 6901. JSON pointers are used for many things wherever a JSON document is used. It can help with… Data extraction…

In this tutorial, I will go over the steps for creating a genetic algorithm using python. A genetic algorithm is an algorithm that mimics a “survival of the fittest” methodology. We will have a population made up of a bunch of individuals. Each generation, we kill off the least fit…

Over the past few weeks I have been watching videos, reading articles (and asking ChatGPT) what the main differences between these two Database Management Systems are. …

In this article, I will talk about an advanced Javascript web dev topic called worker threads. …

On the internet today, many sites have the same cookie-cutter Wordpress template layout. Users (like myself) are tired of seeing the same boring navbar with slightly varying color schemes. If you want a way to stand out from the competition then look no further! …

In this article I will show you how to create the server (~100 lines of code) and the client (~100 lines of code) for a small “game” where players move around a canvas by leveraging react and p5.js. While this article focuses on creating a game, sockets are very useful…

Ever since there have been programming languages, there have been programming paradigms which try to establish a philosophy about how code should be structured. I am sure most people reading this have heard of Object Oriented Programming — the darling of the Java developer. However, have you ever heard about…

OpenAI’s Chat GPT has generated a lot of buzz in the recent months, spawning new AI based libraries, businesses and even entirely new sectors. It has a lot of great use case examples but also has some troubling fallbacks of confidently claiming incorrect information. Today I am going to go…

If you have written functional components in React, then you are more than likely to already know some of the built in hooks it offers (like useState, useEffect and useRef). However, it is often common practice to create new hooks by composing these building blocks hooks together. Frustrated with updating…