Software Engineering

Node-RED is an open-source, low-code development tool for flow-based, visual programming. It lets you wire together hardware devices, APIs, and online services by dragging and dropping building blocks onto a canvas — instead of writing boilerplate integration code by hand. The result is that you spend your time making systems talk to each other rather […]

Every so often, building software throws a real mathematical problem at you. Most are quick fixes you can solve with elementary math — but every now and then you hit something genuinely intriguing. This is one of those, and it comes down to a spherical coordinates arc calculation: finding the path a point travels along […]

Every front-end developer hits the same wall eventually: the page is doing too much at once. You’ve got a single-page app pulling in a few large images, two or three custom fonts, some templates, a config request — and the browser tries to deal with all of it more or less at the same time. […]