Jarek Wojciechowski on Atomic Spin

Five Reasons Generative Art Is the Ideal Hobby for a Software Developer

Generative art takes the inflexible or “scientific” parts of software development and turns them into creative moments that provide inspiration.

Python

Refactoring a Flask App with Blueprints

Using flask’s blueprints, we were able to break apart the app into logical segments and gain familiarity with the codebase.

Developer Tools

What’s Under the Hood in Git?

Git has a user friendly command line interface. I’m going to explore the commands running under the hood of git’s (comparatively) friendly interface.

Growing as Makers

How to Mentor at a Student Hackathon & Why You Should Give it a Try

Mentoring at hackathons can also help you with a low-pressure environment to practice some of your skills, especially around debugging, brainstorming, mentoring (duh), and interact

Web Apps

An Intro to HHVM and Hack for PHP

An exploration of HHVM and Hack for PHP, including their features, development experience, and platform support.

Development Practices

How to Back Up Your Development Environment

Creating a globally-accessible git repository to back up files, without needing to resort to symlinks or other messy methods.

Development Practices

Regular Expressions Are Great… Sometimes

Before you apply regular expressions to every situation that looks like a string that needs parsing, you need to be aware of their limitations.

Web Apps

How to Console Yourself through JavaScript Debugging

An overview of the JavaScript debugging tools offered by the console api. There’s a lot of good functionality beyond the tried and true console.log.

Development Practices

Be Expressive: How to Give Your Variables Better Names

Well named variables are one of the most useful things you can do to build a maintainable and predictable codebases. They make code seem effortless.

Developer Tools

My Favorite Commands from a Year of Vim

I’ve been using vim as my primary text editor for a little over a year now. I’m going to share some of my favorite vim commands that I’ve discovered.

Python

Speed Up Your Game – Playing AI with Bitboards

Writing a game-playing AI is fun, but checking for wins or valid moves is boring. Bitboards offer a unique solution.

Jarek Wojciechowski

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