Aphinya is a skilled tech writer with field experience in software development, agile, and fullstack JavaScript. She is a dev advocate and community builder, helping others navigate their dev journey.
Web developers nowadays tend to be self-taught and entering the field with just enough knowledge to get started but not dangerous enough to dethrone those with computer science degrees. A lot of self-taught developers get stuck in a space known as noobville, not because they’re bad at coding, but...
Many of us are capable of writing proficient syntax — but proficiency isn’t the same as mastery. While programming paradigms such as object oriented and functional programming help make the code better to manage, maintain and understand, there is an under-addressed topic in the programming world. And that topic has...
We all have horror stories when it comes to code. It starts off innocently until it morphs into Stephen King’s level of horror, turning the most optimistic among us into killer clowns. While I can encourage you not to be that person, we still do it anyway or find...
There is no doubt that React is causing a front end upheaval when it comes to choosing a method of coding interfaces. Angular feels like it’s been in the market for a long time. However, in reality, the framework as we currently know it was only released in 2016....
There is a misconception on what test driven development really is. We all know what it is, but at the same time, we don’t really. Usually it’s the word ‘test ’ that throws us off. So we end up writing long convoluted test units, sometimes the test code being...
July last year, a crowd funding campaign went viral in Colombia. It was all good and dandy in the first 48 hours. They managed to reach over 2 million sessions and over 20 million page views — with a website that stayed fully functional without a hitch. Until they saw the...
