Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Jesse Langford
Jesse Langford

438 Followers

Home

About

Published in

Better Programming

·Pinned

The Most Important Thing I Did to Become a Senior Developer

If I had to pick one thing, this would be it — I won't bury the lead, the most important thing I did to become a senior developer was to own something. I don’t mean “own” like I owned a business or owned a computer. I mean I took ownership of something in the company. In 2019, the company I was working…

Programming

5 min read

The Most Important Thing I Did to Become a Senior Developer
The Most Important Thing I Did to Become a Senior Developer
Programming

5 min read


Published in

JavaScript in Plain English

·Aug 30

Finding a Company's Primary Color from Their Favicon with JavaScript

A while ago, I was tasked with developing creative ways to enhance our customers' experience. One of the immediate targets I had was to find how to obtain a company's primary color from their website. Much of our product involves company color, logo, and other branding customization. My goal was…

Web Development

4 min read

Finding a Company's Primary Color from Their Favicon with JavaScript
Finding a Company's Primary Color from Their Favicon with JavaScript
Web Development

4 min read


Published in

Level Up Coding

·Aug 24

AI-Generated Usernames With Node.js and Langchain

We require a username when users sign up for my company's product. The username must be unique in our system and cannot be changed after signup. It’s all industry-standard stuff. Unfortunately, another standard part of usernames is how bad our users are at picking them. Many customers have come to…

AI

3 min read

AI-Generated Usernames With Node.js and Langchain
AI-Generated Usernames With Node.js and Langchain
AI

3 min read


Aug 22

Hype Creep. Scope Creep’s More Popular Cousin

At some point in every software developer's career, the term Scope Creep will be discussed. Scope creep in project management refers to changes, continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project’s scope, at any point after the project begins. — Wikipedia Scope Creep usually comes from poorly defined expectations of work…

Project Management

4 min read

Hype Creep. Scope Creep’s More Popular Cousin
Hype Creep. Scope Creep’s More Popular Cousin
Project Management

4 min read


Published in

JavaScript in Plain English

·Aug 3

AI Legal Document Verification With Langchain.js

My company has an Acceptable Use Policy all customers must follow. Despite our best efforts, we continue to have signups who violate the AUP. I wanted to build a solution to ensure no company could slip by us. It saves our customer service team an uncomfortable conversation and gives my…

AI

5 min read

AI Legal Document Verification With Langchain.js
AI Legal Document Verification With Langchain.js
AI

5 min read


Published in

JavaScript in Plain English

·Jun 20

Configuring Jest With TypeScript

This article assumes you already know how to configure a project with a package manager like npm or yarn. It also assumes you know how to install and init TypeScript in a project. Getting Started For this example, I’m going to start with the below folder structure: /src -- /multiply …

Typescript

4 min read

Configuring Jest With TypeScript
Configuring Jest With TypeScript
Typescript

4 min read


Published in

Better Programming

·Apr 12

Reimagining User Interfaces With the OpenAI API

Exploring ways to create a seamless and engaging user experience — The OpenAI API provides a range of language-based services and tools that can be used to create innovative user interfaces. With its advanced AI and machine learning technologies, designers and developers can leverage the API to create more responsive and interactive interfaces, resulting in a seamless and engaging user experience…

JavaScript

7 min read

Reimagining User Interfaces With the OpenAI API
Reimagining User Interfaces With the OpenAI API
JavaScript

7 min read


Published in

JavaScript in Plain English

·Apr 10

Enhanced API Calls with TypeScript

As web applications become more complex, managing code that interacts with APIs can become a challenge. TypeScript can help by providing type checking and other features that improve reliability and maintainability. …

Typescript

4 min read

Enhanced API Calls with TypeScript
Enhanced API Calls with TypeScript
Typescript

4 min read


Published in

Towards AI

·Mar 13

Implementing KNN Classification with TensorlFlow.js

In this article, I will show how to implement a K-Nearest Neighbor classification with Tensorflow.js. TensorFlow.js is an open-source library for machine learning, capable of running in the browser or on Node.js. It enables web developers to build and train machine learning models directly in JavaScript, and use these models…

JavaScript

5 min read

Implementing KNN Classification with TensorlFlow.js
Implementing KNN Classification with TensorlFlow.js
JavaScript

5 min read


Published in

JavaScript in Plain English

·Feb 10

Settings To Verify When Onboarded To A New Codebase

Whenever you get onboarded to a new codebase there are a lot of questions to answer. Hopefully, you are in a situation where a senior-level developer is there to help you get up and running and answer any questions you might have. Or the codebase has a detailed ReadMe file…

Junior Developer

3 min read

Settings To Verify When Onboarded To A New Codebase
Settings To Verify When Onboarded To A New Codebase
Junior Developer

3 min read

Jesse Langford

Jesse Langford

438 Followers

Former golf instructor turned software engineer.

Following
  • Robert Ralph

    Robert Ralph

  • Patrick OConnell

    Patrick OConnell

  • C C Farley

    C C Farley

  • Zachary Phillips

    Zachary Phillips

  • Anthony Signorelli

    Anthony Signorelli

See all (169)

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech

Teams