Everything looks great when setting up the Launch Screen in xCode, until, of course, you run it on an actual device. The tutorials you may find online teach you in xCode, and they look great, but then they don’t work on real devices! You test your work only to find…

What is a promise? How can we better understand a promise? How does the JS Engine actually process a Promise when it sees it in the wild? This article may not be 100% accurate as to the specs of the JS Promise (though it is generally accurate), but it hopefully…

After you have read about hooks and seen examples you might want to jump into your own code and convert some of your class components to functional components with hooks. Specific changes may include the implementation of useState() to replace constructor functions and state declarations and useEffect() to replace componentDidMount()…

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions to quickly setup a CRUD app. The app will use Express and Postgres to build an API on the backend and React to display, add, edit and delete data on the frontend. As a bonus, I added a button on the frontend to download a…

For my first fullstack javascript app I built, Power Todos, a more advanced personal todos app than the typical beginner todos app. It tracks tasks for every todo and can store notes for every task. It was built with React, Express, Node, Postgres. It uses Redis, Redux, React Router and…

I created an accurate stopwatch timer for my new site and wrote about why here, now you can have it for free. HTML and CSS is included. Get it at github or just copy the code I provide here and use it however you want. All I ask is for…

Jim Kwik gives lessons on how to stop procrastinating, how to remember things easier, and how to be happier with your life. These are my notes on his talk. 1. Understand that NOT doing things makes you feel trapped. So it is actually doing things that will free you and…

Secrets to Stephen King’s writing process were revealed in his book, ‘On Writing,’ released in 2000. This is my review of all the important aspects I took away after re-reading it almost twenty years later. — This article was original published at Brain Bank 1. Understand the Basics Know proper grammar. Expand your vocabulary. Know the basics of the English language. Avoid passive sentences. Never use -ly words. Read and digest Strunk and White’s ‘The Elements of Style.’ Understand that you can write simply and still get…

So many times while writing authors try to find the exact word that will make a sentence pop. They head over to google, or go to their trusted thesaurus, only to find words that are close but not quite perfect. Enter Brain Bank. Here, a user can search for a…