As of September 29th, 2023, I am no longer an employee of CYB and I am now working for Orva full time. But what does Orva do exactly? I’m still figuring that out. There’s been a decent amount of interest from companies, local UK councils, and bootcamps in teaching people…

JavaScript, like most programming languages, has mechanisms for creating duplicate values or copying information. In this article we’re going to look at two key ways of making JavaScript copies: Deep and Shallow copying. Copying a variable with a primitive data type like a string or number is fairly straight forward…

If you’ve never heard of a productised service (or productised service for those of you over the pond), I don’t blame you. I learn’t about it on a podcast featuring someone called Brett Williams. Brett started a company called DesignJoy which is a company that offers design design services to…

Arrow functions were introduced in ECMAScript 6 (ES6 or ES2015) as a new, shorter way to write function expressions. However, it’s important to note that arrow functions are NOT a replacement for regular functions. It’s not April 1st but the title of this article is a joke. I saw a…

Orva is a small company that’s all about building fun and friendly digital products while teaching others how they were made. I’ve been a professional web developer for over 10 years now, and my wife has been a professional graphic designer and illustrator for just as long. Creating Orva was a natural progression of our love for technology and design. The name Orva was created by combining our two daughters’ names…

Most of this article was generated by AI, based on a transcript from my TikTok video about the same topic. Writing commit messages can be a super tedious task, and quite often we don’t put as much thought as we should into them. However, with the rise of AI, it’s never been easier to write good and informative commit messages really quickly. The tools One of the best tools I’ve seen that…

Most of this article was generated by AI, based on a transcript of my TikTok video about React and Vite. The official React documentation has shifted its recommendation for beginners away from using create-react-app. Instead, they now advise using fully-fledged React frameworks like Next.js, Remix, or Gatsby. …

Promises are a powerful tool in JavaScript but can take a while to understand and tend to confuse a lot of beginners. If you’re new to JavaScript, you might be wondering how to get started. That’s exactly what this article is for. I’ll walk you through the basics of using…

As of November 7th 2022, I started a TikTok account which has been doing quite well. Its focus is to teach beginners how to code with bite-sized little tips. The that explains how to get data from an API using javascript is by far and away my most popular video…