by Sourcetoad | Jul 6, 2016 | Code, Programming
JavaScript can be pretty annoying at times. You would think that with classes implemented in ES6, this would be solved. For me, the most annoying part of programming is typing. So every time I need to call a class member in React, I have to bind the function to...
by Sourcetoad | Jun 6, 2016 | Design Trends, Graphic Design
As quickly as we threw away our pens, notepads, sound systems, address books, alarm clocks, and anything we could replace with a screen rather that interacting with a three-dimensional object, we ran to the dump to salvage it all. Change is hard, and such a drastic...
by Sourcetoad | Apr 18, 2016 | Programming
Today I’m going to be looking into substring matching algorithms. The benchmark appears to be the Boyer-Moore algorithm. It actually seems to be pretty commonly used for search and replace in text editors. In fact it is said to be the most efficient...
by Sourcetoad | Apr 5, 2016 | App Development, Cool Tools, Programming
I’ve been thinking about micro-services lately as a way to organize projects. I think I understand the concept better when I think of them like dynamically-linked libraries. At first, it seemed inefficient to have different services communicate through...
by Sourcetoad | Mar 14, 2016 | Graphic Design
Logo design is becoming easier and easier these days. You can get a website to spit a logo out in a few seconds, you can buy one pre-made, or you can just use one of millions of icons available online. But ease does not necessarily mean quality. And for every...
