Cannot read property "x" of undefined. I'm guessing if you're reading this you've seen that message before, and probably at some point wanted to throw something through your monitor. We have the venerable Sir Tony Hoare to thank for th... (more…)

The pointless ramblings of Nick Barrett, a (mostly web) hacker... (more…)

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet – William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet The subject of Prototypes in Javascript has always been confusing for developers. In this post I w… (more…)

Quantified Mind is a website which provides a handful of cognitive tests. It lets you choose a bunch of tests and you can run them whenever you wish, adding quantitative variables you are measuring alongside (e.g. hours of sleep, or cups of coffee you dra... (more…)

I’ve been working a lot with a legacy code-base lately. And this one is particularly troublesome. It has all the hallmarks of a rush job. The code is brittle. There are no tests. Things often seem to break at random. And to my embarrassment, I wrote mos...