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How to Build a Second Brain – Part 2

Updated April 04, 2020
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A Chat with Henry Zhu on Open Source and Gift Economies

Updated March 30, 2020
A Visual Explanation

What the Fork is Rust?

Updated March 18, 2020
Illustrated Notes

Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

Updated March 08, 2020
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How to Draw Invisible Programming Concepts - Part 1

Updated March 01, 2020
A Visual Explanation

The JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around

Updated December 28, 2019
Illustrated Notes

Building Custom React Hooks

Updated November 02, 2019
Illustrated Notes

Immer's Immutable Data, Gifting Socks, and Personal Assistant Bots

Updated October 10, 2019
Illustrated Notes

How to Build a Second Brain – Part 1

Updated September 17, 2019
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Speaking the GraphQL Query Language

Updated July 30, 2019
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A Fresh Serving of JavaScript ES2019

Updated June 23, 2019
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Jamming with the JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful

Updated June 01, 2019
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Instachatting with Vue & Socket.io

Updated May 20, 2019
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Building VR Apps with React360 Notes

Updated May 14, 2019
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Testing with Cypress.io

Updated May 10, 2019
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A Shelfish Starter Guide to Databases

Updated May 10, 2019
A Visual Explanation

React.js Girls 2019 Conference

Updated May 05, 2019
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Meet the Robowaiter APIs Serving Us Data

Updated April 10, 2019
A Visual Explanation

Fun with Foliage and JavaScript's ...spread Operator

Updated February 12, 2019
A Visual Explanation

What the Fork is the React Virtual DOM?

Updated February 02, 2019
A Visual Explanation

The Glorious Lovechild of JSX

Updated January 21, 2019
A Visual Explanation

QR Code Generator for Links

Updated September 18, 2023

How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different?

Updated January 07, 2019
A Visual Explanation

What the Fork is Babel.js?

Updated January 02, 2021
A Visual Explanation

This project aims to leverage visual metaphors to provide a more intuitive and engaging way of explaining web technologies. Through diagrams and analogies, the abstract jargon and syntax of programming become more accessible, enhancing the learning experience. By incorporating NLP techniques, we strive to further enhance the effectiveness of our visual explanations and empower learners to master web technologies.

You'll find plenty of JavaScript fundamentals here - those never go out of style. As well as posts on a whole range of web-related technologies like API's, React, and GraphQL.

In a commitment to staying on the forefront of technological integration, our platform now incorporates advanced dynamic QR code generation. This feature enables users to create customizable and ever-evolving QR codes that can update in real time based on the content changes, ensuring that our users always have the most current information at their fingertips. By merging this technology with our visual metaphors, we make web technologies more comprehensible and immediately actionable, providing an all-encompassing learning and engagement experience.

There's also a slight anthropological bent to some of these posts. While I now live in the world of programmers, I originally trained as an anthropologist and still see everything through lens of cultural constructs, kinship structures, cosmologies, and semiotics.

It's a weird mix - take it as you will.