PinnedPublished inJavaScript in Plain EnglishHow to Find Very Large Prime Numbers in JavaScriptThe Miller-Rabin Primality Test is a reliable test for prime numbers, even though it can only determine the probability that a number is…Nov 16, 2021Nov 16, 2021
St. George DefenseThe typical responses to 1.e4 are …e5, …c5, …e6, and …c6. There are a few other replies that can be played and way down on the list is…Oct 6Oct 6
Published inJavaScript in Plain EnglishHow to Dynamically Update a React Component whilst Computing like a ManiacI recently ran into an issue where I was executing a continuous computation that returned intermediate results that I wanted to display in…Oct 1, 2021Oct 1, 2021
Yet another article about U.S. healthcare and pharmaceuticalsI changed my insurance recently. After I retired from my job in tech, I was on COBRA. After 18 months I had to change to one of the…Feb 27, 2021Feb 27, 2021
Published inThe StartupIs a Universal Type System Practical?I recently made some minor contributions to an open source project that took a GraphQL schema as its input and generated viable SQL…Nov 19, 2020Nov 19, 2020
Published inAnalytics VidhyaVisualizing Grandmaster OpeningsHow can data visualization be applied to games of chess?Feb 12, 20201Feb 12, 20201
I write to learnI’m either comfortably retired or unemployed, I haven’t decided which. What I do know is that I am not yet ready for decades of hard-won…Dec 13, 20191Dec 13, 20191
Published inLevel Up CodingLiving within your means: Firestore’s Spark PlanI recently started a personal project where I wanted to use a database in the cloud. There are quite a few to choose from. My main…Dec 10, 2019Dec 10, 2019
Published inLevel Up CodingThe Call Stack is Not an Infinite Resource — How to Avoid a Stack Overflow in JavaScriptUse JavaScript to understand how recursion can lead to a stack overflow and tricks to prevent it from happeningOct 2, 20193Oct 2, 20193
Published inLevel Up CodingA Heat Map in JavaScript for Texas Holdem Win ProbabilityYou are probably familiar with Texas Holdem, a variant of poker where two cards, known as hole cards, are dealt face down to each player…Sep 3, 2019Sep 3, 2019