Tamás F. Polgár

Jan 10, 2024 | journals.plos.org | David Farkas |Szilárd Szikora |A. S. Jijumon |Tamás F. Polgár

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewedResearch Article ? This is an uncorrected proof. Citation: Farkas D, Szikora S, Jijumon AS, Polgár TF, Patai R, Tóth MÁ, et al. (2024) Peripheral thickening of the sarcomeres and pointed end elongation of the thin filaments are both promoted by SALS and its formin interaction partners. PLoS Genet 20(1): e1011117. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011117Editor: Gregory A.

Dec 2, 2023 | medium.com | Tamás F. Polgár

Either I’m a gifted oracle, and all of my friends are, or Agile really was just a stupid idea to begin with. After many years of agony, Cliff Berg, a major evangelist of this idiocy, finally admitted Agile’s failure. Untold millions of dollars and other currencies have been wasted on the idea of Agile, and its ugly bastard kid, Scrum.

Jul 11, 2023 | medium.com | Tamás F. Polgár

For many years, Typescript did not allow us to inspect an object whether it implements a Typescript interface. Fortunately, there's real progress in this world. Let's say we have this interface:interface Cat { name: string; color: 'tabby' | 'calico' | 'black' | 'white' | 'bald'; kittens?: number;} Now let's say we have these data structures:The first one doesn't implement the Cat interface because it has an excess ownerName field. The second is a valid implementation of Cat.

Jun 23, 2023 | medium.com | Tamás F. Polgár

What is a cargo cult? During your career in IT, or really any technical trade, you're bound to stumble upon "cargo cultists". Maybe you already had, and they left you puzzled: what the hell some people are thinking? Here's a word of advice no programming school will ever give to you. The term itself was coined, I think, in the 1960s, and originally had nothing to do with IT. Researchers described an amazing phenomenon occurring among island-dwelling tribes living on remote Pacific islands.

Jun 7, 2023 | medium.com | Tamás F. Polgár

Even well-experienced seniors hardly develop more than one or two drag and drop UIs in their entire lifetime, so the chance you know this little trick is pretty low. You may run into the problem eventually though. Let me give you another reason to thank me. Let's have two DOM elements. One is an image, this is our draggable item. The other a div, as our drag and drop target.