Timers can be powerful tools if you know how to use them — JavaScript timers are great tools for achieving recurrent behavior or even triggering delayed actions. Whatever time-based logic you have, timers are the answer to your questions. But if you don’t fully understand how they work, then you’ll be hitting your head against a JavaScript-made wall. Let’s take a look at…

How can you have multiple versions of the same page living inside your documentation? — Astro is very popular right now, and rightfully so if you ask me. The framework allows developers to create static websites with great flexibility and power. The ability to integrate multiple rendering libraries alone helps with adoption when you’re migrating from somewhere else. And while creating a documentation site is…

Islands sound and work like magic, but they’re not that complex. In this article I’m going to show you how to build your own — The concept of “Islands of interactivity” is a very interesting one, because it poses the premise that the website should only send interactive code to the browser when it’s absolutely needed. Otherwise, the rest of the HTML should be rendered statically on the server. This helps speed things up and…

A Comprehensive Guide to Implementing Genetic Algorithms in Your Code — Sometimes the solution to a problem can depend on so many different and independent factors, that writing an algorithm that makes sense of them all is almost impossible. Understanding when to change one parameter instead of the other, can take a lot of time and effort to research. Instead, genetic…

Cuckoo Filters are very useful when you have to deal with big data sets. Especially when you have to check if a new value is already inside the set. — When dealing with large systems, you would normally use a database to understand if whatever new piece of information you’re trying to save is already there or not. But how long does that database take? Unless you’ve optimized the table and created some clever indexes, you might be looking at…

The Best Browser Fingerprinting Techniques. Learn how easy it is to implement your own fingerprint code in minutes! — Browser fingerprinting is a security technique used in many different situations where you want to uniquely identify a user, no matter who the user is telling you they are. One of those situations, is of course, when they’re scrapping your website. If you’re using limited detection techniques, such as checking…