Background: I’m definitely no expert, and have no formal education, in machine learning (ML) nor artificial intelligence (AI), but I’m fascinated and intrigued by the technologies. I’ve been learning about them and building apps with them on my own for the past few years. In this series of posts, I’ll…

Exception handling in Ruby and life As a student in the Flatiron School’s web development program, we’ve learned to use Ruby on Rails for the backend. Until recently, we’ve not had to be concerned with exceptions. Exception handling, where your code anticipates possible errors and “rescues” the application from crashing…

Don’t let synchronous code upset yourMomma and spoil Thanksgiving Javascript is a single-threaded programming environment. That means that typically your Javascript code can only be doing one thing at any point in time. Generally this restriction isn’t an issue for many operations, like adding numbers or updating a variable in…