I am a young developer (in high school), who is always building things and experimenting with new programming languages and technologies.
— About: an introduction and a short history
— Blog: I write articles about code
— Code: a few projects I've built
— Résumé: what I've done and what I offer
Scroll down to see my latest blog posts, and I hope you enjoy this site.
— Fred Adams, November 7, 2019
January 17, 2020
Est. 2 min read
In general, normal JavaScript allows for code that is badly written and includes bad syntax. But, use strict solves this problem. Introduced in ES5, the use strict direct...
January 12, 2020
Est. 1 min read
Today I am proud to release my latest project — a website and the first ever DEV bot (as far as I know), called Daily Developer Jokes. The Daily Developer Jokes bot...
January 11, 2020
Est. 3 min read
LOLCODE is an esoteric programming language, a type of programming language which is defined by the Esolang Wiki as follows: an esoteric programming language is a compute...
January 3, 2020
Est. 2 min read
1. Clip Paths: Clip paths allow you to clip elements into a shape, represented in CSS with the polygon, circle, or ellipse functions. Clip paths are written with the clip...
December 24, 2019
Est. 5 min read
The developer world is changing quickly. New tech is quickly rendering old languages and frameworks useless, and the hype for new stuff such as WebAssembly, AI, and crypt...
December 15, 2019
Est. 3 min read
JavaScript is a weird language. It's an object-oriented language, but for many years it never had classes. It was built for the browser, but now it can also run on a serv...
December 12, 2019
Est. 4 min read
I have used all three operating systems in my lifetime. When I used Windows it felt too bloated and I missed Bash, my Linux experience was really positive but too many ap...
December 4, 2019
Est. 4 min read
Around one and a half years ago, it was the summer of 2018. I was fairly new to building websites, and I was mainly writing static HTML and CSS sites and playing around w...
November 26, 2019
Est. 4 min read
The flipping card animation can not only provide functionality and ease of use to any webpage, but can also make your site feel more refined, user-friendly, most importan...
November 9, 2019
Est. 2 min read
It seems like almost every other click on the internet ends up in an "Error 404: Page Not Found" page. "Whoops, the page you're looking for does not exist," "Sorry, the r...
November 6, 2019
Est. 5 min read
On October 29, 1959, 50 years ago, Charley Kline, a student at UCLA, sent the first ever message over ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet. Kline sent the first messa...
October 27, 2019
Est. 3 min read
I will start off by saying that I am a self-taught developer. When I started programming, the internet was the primary place I went to learn. Online tools like W3Schools ...
October 24, 2019
Est. 4 min read
At my school (yes, I am a teenager), there's a school library, which I go to often. One particular day I decided to see if they had any books on web design and developmen...
October 19, 2019
Est. 4 min read
Deep Thinking is a book written by Garry Kasparov about chess and machine learning. Kasparov, who is a former chess world champion, is famous not only for his achievement...
October 10, 2019
Est. 1 min read
First, thank you so much for clicking on this post, much appreciated! I've recently made a pretty big update to my personal website, at xtrp.io which is now at version 4.