You’re never going to learn programming by watching a video called ‘learn programming’. The only way to learn programming, and everyone who I’ve ever met who can program well learned it all in the same way. They had something they wanted to do, and then they tried to do it…

Here are some key pieces of advice for beginner to mid level developers from an active senior in the industry. These tips are in no particular rank / order. I will be adding to and modifying this list over time, I want this to be as useful as possible and…

Welcome to Part 5: Rate Limiting, of building a realtime chat application with and In this part of the series, we’re going to implement rate limiting! With rate limiting, we will likely be denying users from sending messages — so to be respectful we should indicate to the user whether…

Welcome to Part 4: Guards and Authorization with CASL, of building a realtime chat application with Nest JS and React. In this part of the series, we’re going to introduce a new feature for the application which allows room hosts to kick users out of the room. For this, we…

Welcome to Part 3: Pipes and E2E Validation with Zod, of building a realtime chat application with Nest JS and React. If you haven’t checkout out previous parts of this series, go back to follow along. Part 1: Basics — laying the foundations of the application and implementing the most…

Integrating the socket.io rooms feature. Welcome to Part 2: Rooms, of building a realtime chat application with Nest JS and React. If you haven’t checked out Part 1: Basics, go back to follow along as we’ve laid the foundations of the application there. …

Welcome to part 1, the Basics of building a chat application with Nest JS and React. This series will attempt to touch on as many features of Nest’s websockets integration as well as socket.io in general. The entire series will be building on one repository that has both the server…

Elon Musk has been working on a brain-machine interface called Neuralink. Brain-machine interfaces could be the promising step forward that humans need to help correct neurological disorders and to ultimately — complete symbiosis with A.I. Implementation of Neuralink would essentially be both a hardware and software update of our ‘biological’…

The social media app Parler has recently exploded as Twitter users have begun migrating to the platform. Recently Twitter has been harshly criticized for: banning users’ accounts under their somewhat vague policies on suspending accounts, censoring Tweets from (most notably) president Donald Trump and other high profile conservative individuals, and…