Freshman — Articles and Tutorials on Software Development

AI agents can already use websites without any cooperation from the site itself.

Chrome extensions let you add new features to your browser, from password managers to privacy tools and productivity helpers.

Written by John Ousterhout, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, this book’s central idea is all about managing and reducing complexity in software projects.

Linting is the process of identifying and reporting on patterns found in code, with the aim of improving consistency, and catching bugs early in the development cycle.

The Windows Terminal provides a much improved command line experience in Windows 10 and 11.

Processing user uploaded files is a common task in web development and it’s quite likely that you’ll need to develop a service that handles this task from time to time.

Pomodoro is a time management technique developed in the 1980s which uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks.

Creating games in the browser is a great way to practice your JavaScript skills and have fun at the same time!

I switched away from Google Analytics to Plausible for a better user experience, privacy and performance.

The quickfix and location lists are essential navigation components in Vim.

Go is a statically typed programming language which means that every value in Go is of a particular type and these types must be known at compile time so that the compiler can ensure that the program is working with the values in a safe way.

Can you program without variables?

Let’s jump into Go by working through a hands-on project together.

Since its first release in 2009, Go (also known as Golang) has continuously increased in popularity and has been adopted by big and small companies alike mostly in place of dynamic environments such as Python, Ruby, and Node.js.

This guide will teach you how to create a cross-browser HTML5 video player with JavaScript using the Media and Fullscreen APIs.

One of Go’s greatest strengths lies in the its suitability for developing web applications.

In this article, we’ll pick up from the previous post that introduced the Svelte 3 library and tackle another exercise that teaches a little more about the features Svelte has to offer.

Why is Svelte gaining popularity, and do we really need another JavaScript framework?

I’ve been using Vim for close to two years now, and do all my JavaScript development work in it.

In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to build a countdown timer in Golang.

Some people claim building a todo list app is a boring activity since so many exist already but I think it remains a great exercise for learning useful concepts that are widely applicable in many programming contexts.

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a URL Shortener application with Node.js and MongoDB.

I’ve described how to build a few web components with Flexbox here, here and here.

One of the reasons why Node.js is such a great platform for building applications is the abundance of libraries that have been developed by the community for practically all the common use cases.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a common component on product landing pages.

In the previous article, I introduced the Flexbox layout model and demonstrated how it can be used to build a photo card component, which is identical to the one found on the Unsplash homepage.

CSS Flexbox has been around for quite a while now, and is well supported, but I still see a lot of upcoming web developers resorting to frameworks like Bootstrap in order to achieve simple layouts in the browser, perhaps because Flexbox introduces many new

The process of optimising images for the web does not stop at using tools like MozJPEG or pngquant.

Images are one of the most fundamental types of content that is served on the web.

This epic tutorial provides a solid workout for JavaScript newbies by describing how a simple calculator application can be developed with the language.

CSS Grid is a new way of defining the structure of a webpage.

For most of my career as a Web Developer, I worked on the frontend of websites and applications consuming APIs made by other people.

There are a lot of options out there as far as text editors go, but I’m here to help you traverse the wide landscape of coding editors for JavaScript.

I discuss my history with text editors, what led me to switch to Vim six months ago and why I’m sticking with it

In the first three parts of this series, I discussed the value proposition of HTTPS, what SSL certificates are and how to get one for free, and additional things you can do to secure your website even further.

There’s more to deploying HTTPS than just obtaining a certificate, slapping it on your server and calling it a day.

The first part of this series covered what HTTPS is and why it’s important for every website.

Security on the web is more important than ever.

Let’s jump into web application development by working through a hands-on project together!

If you’re learning JavaScript as your first programming language, this tutorial provides a good opportunity to learn how it is used in the real world.

HTTP status codes are a set of standard responses sent by a web server to a client (such as a web browser) indicating whether a specific HTTP request was completed successfully or not.