This April’s Fool’s Day, inspired by the classic prank, Cat Facts, I decided to create a SMS chatbot that would spam people with “Matt Facts“. I don’t normally do much pranking, but this seemed like a good opportunity to build a silly little chatbot and have a bit of harmless fun. What People Said The […]
Category: JavaScript
Crazy Pixels
Ever since I first laid eyes on Conway’s Game of Life, I’ve been in love with the idea of cellular automatons: small, distinct units that follow some simple, fundamental rules to create beautiful, complex, and strange patterns working together. This prototype was originally inspired by an article I read about cellular automatons, or rather, a video of […]
Encapsulate Your Scope When Looping With Asynchronous Functions
When using for loops in JavaScript, sometimes you can encounter some unexpected behaviour. First, a simple for loop– No tricks: As anyone would expect, this will print out 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 to the console. Now, what if we are operating asynchronously? Next, let’s essentially do the same thing, except with a 1 second […]