Originally posted on LinkedIn as a meme.
my friends are all attachment styles this and attachment styles that when it comes to dating. however, has anyone had the brilliant idea of applying attachment styles to working at a tech company? I didn’t think so! now you might be thinking, “hey Stephen isn’t this a bad idea?” and yes, it is. but just like we should all hope to be secure partners in our relationships, we should also possibly strive to be secure capitalistic partners at work.
Originally posted on the Plaid Engineering Blog while I was part of Plaid’s Developer Experience Team.
The developer experience team focuses on building tools and features that make it as easy as possible for developers to explore our APIs and integrate with Plaid. This year, our team adopted an OpenAPI schema (OAS) as a specification for our API. We launched this schema in beta earlier this year.
Our team is responsible for maintaining three sources of truth for our API that allow developers to build and test their integrations:
Originally posted on the Mobile Developers of Berkeley blog
This article is going to be a quick intro to the basics of writing modern JavaScript all the time, rather than being dependent on what environment is supported by a given browser.
First, what is ES6? ECMAScript 6 is the sixth standardized version of JavaScript, which is ultimately a specification of language features. ES6 added a ton of really great features that drastically improved the ability to construct larger-scale programs with JavaScript (like constants and block scoping!). It’s important to note, as ES6 is only a specification, it’s ultimately up to the browsers to provide an implementation for these new features: often, certain browsers lag behind on implementing all these features (i.e. IE).
Originally posted on Medium.
For my first Medium article, we’re going to go into a quick and easy way to speed up your Python code (and pass those pesky HackerRank tests where you’re just a bit short on time!), as well as some of the technical implementation details for the curious.
__slots__ is an attribute you can add to a Python class when defining it. You define slots with the possible attributes that an instance of an object can possess. Here’s how you use __slots__: