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Faker is a useful JavaScript library for generating dummy data. For example, faker.random.words(3) generates a string containing three random words. But what if you want to generate an array of random words?

There are countless blog posts detailing how to split a JavaScript array into chunks. However, many of these solutions fail with arrays containing hundreds of thousands of items.

You can generate a pseudo-random boolean in JavaScript or PHP using a single line of code. No, you do not need to install yet another idiotic JavaScript package.

Statecharts are a very useful tool for modelling complex workflows in your application.

TypeScript doesn't always play nicely with object bracket notation.

The Node CLI supports a "require" flag, which allows you to preload a module when running Node.

Node isn't managed by npm. As such, there's no guarantee that running npm install -D @types/node will install the correct type definitions for your version of Node.

Use 'generics' when writing a TypeScript function which works with a variety of types.

Many PHP module names include the PHP version. This makes it difficult to write portable bash scripts. Here's a fix.