Many times when designing software, we have to deal with the possible absence of a value. This is especially true when working with third party libraries, APIs, databases, or user input. A user may submit a form without filling it out, or we may not get a...

React-Native is a hybrid mobile framework that lets you build apps using only JavaScript. However, unlike other hybrid mobile technologies… (more…)

Fundamentally, music is just sound organized in time. So when building musical tools, it’s helpful to indicate just where you are in time. (more…)

Matt Rajca discovered last year that Swift’s Array.append(element) is 6x faster than Array operator+=(collection). This is a shame, because the latter is semantically equivalent, easier to type, an… (more…)

The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. (more…)