Josh Writes

Small boy with big dreams.

  • Notes on Mimetic Theory – René Girard

    If you didn’t know, I’m a homeschooled boy – and I told my father I was interested in philosophy. He advised me to start of with Girard and his theory of mimesis. I searched it up on YouTube – and found a lecture by Jonathan B. I was instantly captivated by his podcast – his…

  • What to do when unexpected things disrupt your plan.

    We made it our routine to write a retro and a planner every Sunday/ @ weeks back, on a Sunday, I was doing exactly that – Planning for the next week. The main highlight for the week is the video I will be posting. It was on the essay by Isaiah Berlin – The Fox…

  • The fundamentals of CSS – Understanding the very basics of CSS.

    HTML is a very popular coding language -– and I’m sure you have learnt it or at least heard of it. We usually use it to make the framework for our websites. We can even rightfully call it the “skeleton of websites”. Then if HTML is the “skeleton” then CSS would be the “skin and…

  • The Hedgehog and the Fox: Which one are you?

    Recently, my father brough to my attention an essay by Isaiah Berlin. The essay was based off of a quote by Archilochus. “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”— Archilochus, 7th century BCE The thing is – this is the only piece that survives of the poem – just one…

  • Why some problems never go away — The nature of wild problems.

    Problems are something everybody experiences n their lives. Perhaps it’s simply solving a coding bug or a math problem or it’s the problem of choosing a career or a university. Some problems — we consider hard, others we consider it easy. The way we look at a problem drastically impacts the approach we take to…

  • Introduction to DOM and the basics of DOM Manipulation.

    Hey everyone, In this blog let us discuss Document Object Model or easily known as “DOM”. The Document Object Model (DOM) is really one of the most important things you need to learn in web development, however it can seem slightly confusing at first. Even I didn’t understand it in the first place! That is…