To tell the truth I’ve mostly used Medium as a journaling exercise for myself, and never really cared about my read ratio or views. It’s exciting when a story does well, and I do love when people read what I write, but I was never set on “hacking the algorithm”…

In a previous post I set some goals for the new year, but now for a more fun and chaotic new years tradition: the bingo card. …

I’m a graduated student and a fan of academic integrity, but will this be a new mode of cheating for students? How would an AI preform when asked to answer essay-style questions, or a short research paper with properly cited sources? I asked an AI to write a short essay…

I’m sure you’ve seen these click-bait type articles all over medium recently, and what a great way to get a writer to panic-read your article. Here’s some nuance and reassurance from a software developer: your writing job is safe for now and I have proof. Exhibit 1: Ask AI to write to plot of a new Stephen King novel. Okay, does it sound like…

I haven’t written in a while but today I felt inspired to share a tutorial about a niche and hard-to-find-info-on problem I encountered at work and share my newly found knowledge with other developers. …

What if I asked you to convert the repeating decimal 0.636363… into a fraction? How fast can you do it? Can you do it at all? Give me a few minutes of your time and you will learn how to calculate this in a few seconds. Let’s take a look…

What if I asked you to multiply 43 by 11? How long would it take you? Give me a few minutes of your time and I’ll show you have to do it in a few seconds. As it turns out, multiplying a two, even three, digit number by 11 is…

My first few articles use screenshots of my code on an editor or the output of the console, but Im looking for a more elegant solution. In this article I’m going to test out different ways of writing code on Medium to see if we find a winner. …

It is generally best practice to use a semantic HTML tag to accomplish a task where you can — this makes your code more readable and your website more parseable. Here are five more tags you can add to your toolkit: 1. <progress> This tag is used to show how far along…