This is part of a new series of articles that I’m planning on releasing on a weekly basis. Read to end for a proper introduction to this whole thing.

An update

This Wednesday was my last day of class for the semester.

I’ve been working on a new personal project using Rust and WebAssembly which I’ve been looking forward to for a long time.

I’ve been back home for almost 3 weeks now and haven’t noticed a minute go by. …

As software engineers, we want to write code that not only works, but works in every possible situation a user could find themselves in. Under any circumstance, we want our code to run the way we designed it to run, or at the very least communicate clearly what went wrong.

Enter testing.

Testing is the way we test our programs. Simple. The concept alone may be intuitive, but there’s a bit more nuance to how we design tests effectively and efficiently.

The great conflict of testing is that

1. Everyone wants their code to work.
2. No one wants to write tests…

During the height of cardiovascular disease rates in the United States, a town of Italian immigrants stood out as a statistical anomaly. They had no deaths or even signs of heart disease in men under 55, and half the national rate of death by heart disease for those over 65.

Through their story, we can learn that the key to health and happiness may be one and the same. It’s the story of a small village in the foothills of eastern Pennsylvania, a town named Roseto.

The Roseto Mystery

In the late 1800s, a group of paesani from Roseto, Italy immigrated to America…

I see a lot of content creators I like making videos about things they wish they knew when they were younger, and I figured I’d flip the structure given that I’m in the opposite position as an 18-year-old right now. So for my older self, these are some things I hope you remember.

Dear 28-year-old Alec,

In just about a month, I will be coming up on a whole year of taking cold showers. I started this first stereotypical improve-yourself practice on somewhat of a whim, and now that a year’s gone by, it’s got me thinking about the path…

I’m not a huge superhero movie fan. Maybe I will be, but as of the time of writing this, I’ve consumed very few superhero movies. This is just to say that I’m not incredibly well-versed on the genre, but I thought I’d share my thoughts on what makes Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy so brilliant.

Although I’ve never really taken much time to think about superhero movies, this trilogy has opened me up to what makes this genre so compelling. In the basic form, I think the purpose of superhero movies, or the sort of selling point that makes superhero…

Update

I’ve been getting better at reading. I’m still rather slow and I reread a lot of passages because my mind wanders, but where before these things would bother me and cause me to stop, I’ve been able to keep going. Maybe it’s just that the story I’ve been reading recently has been especially good.

I’m becoming somewhat agnostic of this format of an update, reflection, thought, and beginning to just throw whatever I want into these. …

For a little over a month now, I’ve been working on a 3D platformer game in the browser using Rust, WebAssembly, Javascript, and WebGL. This article is just a bit about my experience working with this stack.

Why this stack?

Initially, I chose to use these technologies for a couple of reasons.

1. I think Rust is cool.
2. I think Rust and WebAssembly have a lot of potential for the future of web development, as inexperienced and uninformed my thoughts on the subject may be.
3. For a game, something that has the potential to be pretty computationally taxing for both the CPU and GPU…