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34 articles from 2014 · show all

December 2014

What I learned about freelancing by getting a haircut

November 2014

Thank you people of the internet

Code completion is bad mmkay

Kids, always remember to clear your intervals

October 2014

It's good to be back, but I still don't know where I like it more

September 2014

I was wrong about AngularJS

What happens when you stop saying No

August 2014

I ran with the bulls and I survived

July 2014

With 90k I could become a full-time author

June 2014

My new favourite Javascript trick

Using returns and callbacks in the same function. Sounds like crazy talk I know, but hear me out, I have good reason. I think.

Why I love Tinder

May 2014

(ab)Using d3.js to make a Pong game

Feedback my sample d3.js screencast

How to royally cock up as a freelancer

April 2014

Week 20: Making ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc

Writey write about Write the Docs

Week 19: Relativity theory and time perception

How the internet saved my arse, and my longboard

March 2014

After five months, my effective hourly rate with a publisher is 3eur/hour

Week 18: the role of diet in periodontal disease

Are introverts more creative?

Week 17: What happens when you only eat meat for a year?

February 2014

I returned to Slovenia after 3 months and I am culturally shocked

Week 16: On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules

Week 15: A tutorial on the expressiveness and universality of fold

When the universe tries to communicate, or how I almost didn't get home

January 2014

Why I don't have a 5 year plan

Week 14, heuristic evaluation of user interfaces

Mixing mixpanel into backbone

Week 13, constructing logic circuits in mammalian cells