This article will also discuss let, but since that particular JavaScript variable declaration keyword was featured in the title of my last article, const gets top billing this time. …

Let, or rather let, along with const, came along in the middle of last decade, and created such a shift in the paradigm of JavaScript variables that Flatiron School now advises its students to literally never use its predecessor, var. But they still taught us about it, so we won’t…

JavaScript. My Flatiron School bully, who eventually grew to embrace (or at least tolerate) me. As mentioned in my last article, I had difficulty making the leap from Ruby. One major difference between the two languages, as mentioned in my last article, is the scope of local variables. In both…

It was during my time as an on-campus student at Flatiron School that I learned how to program in Ruby; then, as part of a team, I built a party game app in Ruby on Rails. And then I encountered my bully. Its name was JavaScript; and yes, that’s how…

Earlier this month Volvo announced its plan to stop selling purely non-electric cars by 2025. And by 2030, no hybrids either; its entire fleet will be incapable of consuming fossil fuels. Kudos to them for stepping up their ecological stewardship. …

SpaceX is at it again, steadily progressing in their efforts to shift the paradigm of the human condition through the development and utilization of reusable vessels, rockets and technology that will hopefully make space travel available to the masses. In 2018, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa purchased nine seats on a…

After gaining independence from the British in 1948, the people of Myanmar, aka Burma, lived under military rule from 1962 to 2011, when the armed forces permitted the people to establish and enjoy a type of civilian-military joint government, and the country finally joined the internet. Last month, however, the…

Personally, I wouldn’t call it a “Starship.” Unlike the Enterprise in Star Trek, the vessel in which Elon Musk’s SpaceX hopes to send humans to Mars won’t be capable of surpassing, reaching or even approaching the speed of light; so interstellar travel simply won’t be feasible. Still, putting a man…

“I am Mars’ sole survivor. There is a reason for that.” — J’onn J’onzz , aka Martian Manhunter, of DC Comics While Superman’s a household name, most Americans probably don’t know that he may not have been the Justice League’s most powerful member. That distinction may go to the above-quoted…