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As a programmer / code reviewer, any string manipulation is a red flag and should put you on alert.

Using the first element of an array without additional checks is a common mistake. function getMyThing() { const things = getMyThings(...); return things[0]; } The code above assumes that there is at least one element in things.

Background I’ve noticed that I’m using and recommending to use assert() in our TypeScript projects.

Following is the list of technologies I’m Impressed by, a completely subjective metric.

Different people look at different facts and also interpret them differently.

I have a friend that likes the feeling of progress in the professional area.

For search engine indexing and for understanding: Protobuf is frequently used with GRPC.

( During code review, looking at TypeScript code. ) Colleague: … type casting … Me: hold a sec, I don’t remember about anything called type casting in TypeScript Colleague: you know, “as” Me: yep, there is “as”, I just don’t think it was called type casti…

This is a concise post, summarizing Manager Tools podcasts about feedback.

According to Pagination using Async Iterators in modular AWS SDK for JavaScript, state of the art for pagination in AWS JS SDK is: const client = new DynamoDBClient({}); const tableNames = []; for await (const page of paginateListTables({ client }, {})) {