I first started my journey as a software engineer back in 2008 when I joined ADP, building software for building merchants. This was my first experience working at a tech company, and as someone new to the industry, I couldn’t tell the difference between what were the good habits I…

This week, the new ChatGPT language optimised model from OpenAI was made available to the general public. What really peaked my interest was the sheer number of people talking about it, it appeared to be really impressing people with what it was able to articulately answer. When it comes to…

Many of us have spent the past two or so years working from home significatly more than previously. This has lead us to spend much more time on video calls and to be honest it can become a bit much and leave you absolutely exhausted. While I haven’t found any…

Make your code cleaner by using a ‘switch’ statement instead of using an ‘if’ statement with multiple ‘else-if’ blocks. — Today I saw the Tweet: Who else here forgot that switch statement exists in JavaScript? I honestly did 🐦 Tweet: alicalimli_dev And I instantly felt that I could relate. I often find myself using if statements where I should probably be using a switch statement so I thought I would…

Have Google and Brave’s recent privacy scandals given DuckDuckGo the perfect storm for releasing a new web browser? — Some of you might recently be aware that DuckDuckGo announced a new web browser, launching in private beta on Mac just over a week ago. The differentiator features that they are calling out are: Privacy by default. It is really fast! It is built for security. Today I wanted to…

Node.js 17 was released a little over a month ago, and after spending a month with it running on my personal machine, I thought it was time to write a post about what it means for the Node.js community. In releasing Node.js 17 they have replaced v16 as the current…

Recently, the Bluetooth of my Macbook Pro decided to stop working so the IT department leant me another machine while it was sent in for repair. …

I previously wrote a piece listing “5 Mac Applications You Need as a Software Engineer” — that was my most popular post yet and I haven’t been able to top it. After wondering how I could follow it up, I thought I would write a piece that focuses on talking…