Andrew Healey

📚 🌵 🐕 Love blogging, open-source, and helping out. https://healeycodes.com

United Kingdom Joined on Jan 29, 2019 https://healeycodes.com

Education

MSc Computer Science

Work

Software Engineer

boids

🦢 The boids flocking simulation in Wasm using Ebiten!

Go • 62 stars

in-memory-cache-over-http

⛷️ In-memory key/value cache server over HTTP with no dependencies.

Go • 48 stars

inkbyexample

✒ A hands-on introduction to Ink using annotated example programs.

CSS • 18 stars

among-us-friends

🎮 An ELO and player tracking system for the game Among Us

JavaScript • 17 stars

My favourite languages are Python, JavaScript, and Go! I also like making games with Unity.

Compilers!

I like fun full stack projects but also writing articles and tutorials. Code golf is pretty cool too.

Fun/interesting open source projects, answering tech questions. Say Hi!

49 posts published

207 comments written

16 tags followed

Andrew Healey

Jul 29 '20

Creating Randomness Without Math.random

#javascript #webdev #computerscience #programming

7 min read

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Andrew Healey

Jul 8 '20

A Practical Introduction to Graphs (Network Diagrams)

#python #beginners #tutorial #codenewbie

6 min read

Andrew Healey

Jun 28 '20

Polyfilling the Fetch API for Old Browsers and Node.js

#javascript #webdev #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Jun 2 '20

The Flow of Knowledge in a Team (or Why I Dig Tickets)

#productivity #career #programming #writing

6 min read

Andrew Healey

May 9 '20

Adding Comments to Gatsby with Netlify Serverless Functions + GitHub

#showdev #javascript #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 28 '20

Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard

#webdev #python #linux #tutorial

6 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 26 '20

How I'm Working Remotely

#productivity #career #remote

6 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 11 '20

Twitter Ticker Tape with a POS58 Receipt Printer

#python #linux #beginners #webdev

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 9 '20

Book Review: The Developer's Guide to Content Creation

#news #books #writing #blog

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Jan 19 '20

DEV Article Analysis

#showdev #javascript #webdev #writing

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3 min read

Andrew Healey

Jan 12 '20

Gatsby Sparks Joy

#gatsby #webdev #javascript #css

5 min read

Andrew Healey

Nov 17 '19

Hardest JavaScript Puzzle I've Ever Solved

#challenge #javascript #webdev

182

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Nov 11 '19

Let's Build a CAPTCHA Generator with Node.js

#javascript #webdev #node #tutorial

6 min read

Andrew Healey

Oct 21 '19

Cloning Memcached with Go

#showdev #go #tutorial #beginners

5 min read

Andrew Healey

Oct 2 '19

My First Golang Program

#showdev #beginners #go

138

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Aug 22 '19

I Built a Bot to Try and Get Money Back From My Internet Provider

#webdev #javascript #python

458

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Aug 13 '19

My Experience with Pair Programming

#beginners #career #productivity

115

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Jul 7 '19

An Introduction to Caching on the Web, With Examples in Python

#webdev #python #beginners #tutorial

105

5 min read

Andrew Healey

Jun 24 '19

What If I Want My Website to Last for 100 Years?

#discuss #webdev #javascript #opensource

122

5 min read

Andrew Healey

Jun 18 '19

A Tutorial on Tricking Google: Encoding Messages in Apostrophes

#discuss #python #beginners #tutorial

2 min read

Andrew Healey

Jun 16 '19

Your First Open-Source Pull Request: a Walkthrough

#beginners #opensource #github #tutorial

285

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Jun 11 '19

Refactoring JavaScript for Performance and Readability (with Examples!)

#javascript #beginners #webdev #tutorial

5 min read

Andrew Healey

Jun 3 '19

Saving Data in JavaScript Without a Database

#javascript #webdev #beginners #tutorial

393

5 min read

Andrew Healey

May 27 '19

Interview Question: Implement a Progress Bar

#challenge #javascript #css #beginners

244

6 min read

Andrew Healey

May 19 '19

Solving Puzzles With High-Performance JavaScript

#discuss #javascript #node #tutorial

326

7 min read

Andrew Healey

May 12 '19

A Tiny Project, From Inception to Deployment

#javascript #webdev #glitch #tutorial

4 min read

Andrew Healey

May 6 '19

Continuous Deployment to Glitch via GitHub Webhooks

#javascript #webdev #beginners #github

3 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 30 '19

Fun With Linear Time: My Favorite Algorithm

#discuss #python #beginners #challenge

3 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 24 '19

What They Don't Teach You at a Computer Science Masters

#discuss #beginners #career #productivity

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 18 '19

The Weird Rules I Set Myself That Got Me a Job

#discuss #career #beginners #productivity

670

6 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 14 '19

How to Write an Awesome GitHub README

#github #beginners #tutorial #productivity

769

6 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 11 '19

Talking to Python from JavaScript (and Back Again!)

#javascript #python #beginners #webdev

138

7 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 9 '19

Learn the Storage API by Building a Note Taking App

#javascript #beginners #webdev #tutorial

135

6 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 6 '19

Embed Your Latest DEV Posts Anywhere 💌

#showdev #javascript #beginners #webdev

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Apr 2 '19

Build a Python Bot to Find Your Website's Dead Links

#python #beginners #tutorial #webdev

131

5 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 30 '19

Answered: What the Heck is Code Golf? ⛳

#discuss #javascript #opensource #codegolf

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 28 '19

JavaScript One-Liners That Make Me Excited

#discuss #javascript #webdev #node

929

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 25 '19

Need a Friend? Write a Reddit Bot with Python to Follow You Around 🤖

#tutorial #python #beginners #webdev

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 22 '19

Earn a Build Passing Badge on GitHub ✅! Testing Your Express App with Travis CI

#beginners #javascript #webdev #github

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 18 '19

Coding a Live Cam for the Raspberry Pi in Python (Tutorial)

#python #raspberrypi #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 16 '19

How Flappy Bird Got Me My Start in Software

#beginners #career #webdev #productivity

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 14 '19

A Day in the Life of a Mediumly Productive Software Engineer

#discuss #beginners #webdev #career

5 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 13 '19

Kicking Butt and Taking Names With WebSockets (Tutorial)

#beginners #javascript #webdev #websockets

4 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 12 '19

Two Things About My First In-house Software Job That I Didn't See Coming

#discuss #beginners #career #webdev

2 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 11 '19

Creating Cute GitHub Badges Based Off a Project's Mood (Node.js)

#showdev #github #node #javascript

3 min read

Andrew Healey

Mar 4 '19

Real-time streaming of every emoji posted as a comment to Reddit.com 🔥

#showdev #opensource #javascript #python

3 min read

Andrew Healey

Feb 21 '19

I Ported Sudoku to Your URL Bar and It Plays like a Dream

#showdev #sudoku #frontend #javascript

2 min read

Andrew Healey

Feb 21 '19

Cloning Dominos Order Tracker as a Microservice with Node.js and Firebase!

#showdev #node #express #firebase

3 min read

Andrew Healey

Jan 29 '19

Benchmarking WebSocket Servers with Python!

#showdev #python #websockets #webdev

3 min read

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