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    Swizec's articles in the "languages" category

    I aim to write mindblowing emails with real insight into the career and skills of a modern software engineer. "Raw and honest from the heart!" as one reader described them.

    Below are 33 articles filed under languages. Enjoy ❤️

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


    February 19th, 2014

    My old code is atrocious


    November 12th, 2013

    My very own daily WTF


    January 10th, 2013

    The commonest javascript bug


    February 24th, 2012

    Learning me a Haskell


    December 23rd, 2011

    Fun javascript feature


    December 7th, 2011

    A cool JavaScript property you never noticed

    A few years ago I was playing around with JavaScript trying to find the cleanest way to implement callbacks in functions. Primarily I wanted a readable way to make certain the last argument passed is a callback, withut having to rely on knowing how many arguments there are and so on. Instead I stumbled upon a pretty cool feature of how javascript handles function arguments.
    April 16th, 2011

    The Slavic Esperanto


    March 8th, 2010

    How Lisp changed my style


    January 11th, 2010

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