Programming

Ever since I started programming professionally in 2015, I’ve heard a lot of nice things about VIM. People who use it swear by it’s efficiency and the productivity boost it provides. I too always thought Vim was cool but what prevented me from trying it was the learning curve. Aand…

Speed up your progress view with Gauge view Gauge is a new SwiftUI View introduced by Apple to help developers to shows a value within a range. If you are thinking of a semi-circular Apple widget, you are right! The semi-circular view of your widgets or your WatchOS complications can…

Writing high-performance code without creating more problems for yourself in the future. — Congratulations! 🎉 If you’re reading this, you likely want to get better at writing code for data engineering. In this guide, I will be showing you how I approach writing code as a means of problem solving. A bit about me I’m a Senior Data Engineer at Headspace Health and have been practicing data engineering for…

The “PVS-Studio and RPCS3: the best warnings in one click” article provoked a debate. Here’s what people say in comments: Reader: This article shows that a static analyzer will be useless for expert developers. My reply: Myths about static analysis. The second myth is that expert developers do not make…

A function is a block of code designed to perform a particular task. Functions are very important and powerful fundamental building blocks in JavaScript. If you are starting to get involved with functions in JavaScript, you’ve probably started to hear terms “First Class Functions” and “High Order Functions”. Let’s take a look at what these terms are trying to convey, the connection between them, and what they provide us.

Nowadays, we rarely use arrays. In most cases, we use List<T>, which provides more functionality and is based on an array under the hood. But there are situations when performance is the key while dealing with many objects. What has surprised me is that a plain array is twice as…