Windows Performance

Change Virtual Memory Settings to speed up Windows Virtual memory for your computer is hard drive space used by Windows when it fills up the physical RAM. When your system runs low on RAM because an application like Firefox is taking too much memory, Windows moves the least used "pages" of memory out to a ... Read more

The Magpie Developer

I've often thought that software developers were akin to Magpies, birds notorious for stealing shiny items to decorate their complex nests. Like Magpies, software developers are unusually smart and curious creatures, almost by definition. But we are too easily distracted by shiny new toys and playthings. I no longer find Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer Tool ... Read more

IDEs / Code Editors

WebStorm - code editor ~$100 Awesome and powerful Support: HTML + CSS + JavaScript Additional support: TypeScript, CofeeScript, Dart, SASS, Less, Stylus, AngularJS 2, Node.js Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Additional code editors PHPStorm = WebStorm + PHP support PyCharm = WebStorm + Python support IntelliJ = WebStorm + Java support RubyMine = WebStorm + Ruby support ... Read more

Floating Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations

Floating-point numbers are represented in computer hardware as base 2 (binary) fractions. For example, the decimal fraction 0.125 has value 1/10 + 2/100 + 5/1000, and in the same way the binary fraction 0.001 has value 0/2 + 0/4 + 1/8. These two fractions have identical values, the only real difference being that the first ... Read more

Debugging the issue

Try to isolate the issue. Copy the code that you have issues with and paste it into the clean page template. Can you still reproduce the issue? If no - than you are missing some code from the main template. If you still can reproduce the issue than continue reading. Now you need to start ... Read more

Guard clause

A Guard Clause (one of the SmalltalkBestPracticePatterns, and equally applicable in a whole bunch of languages) is a chunk of code at the top of a function (or block) that serves a similar purpose to a Precondition. It typically does one (or any or all) of the following: checks the passed-in parameters, and returns with ... Read more

AWS alternatives

https://vercel.com/ - cloud platform and AWS alternative planetscale.com - serverless platform and AWS alternative. Has free tier. clerk.com - authentication service and Auth0 alternative. Has free tier. axiom.ai - browser automation