Byron Houwens

Byron Houwens is a designer and developer who enjoys focusing on front end technologies and UX. He currently works as a front end developer in the burgeoning edtech environment, and lives in sunny Cape Town, South Africa.

Byron's articles

ES6 Generators and Iterators: a Developer’s Guide

JavaScript

By Byron Houwens, April 13, 2018

Byron covers generators and iterators, two JavaScript features introduced in ES6 (ECMAScript 2015) that have changed the way developers write JavaScript.

An Introduction to TypeScript: Static Typing for the Web

JavaScript

By Byron Houwens, March 07, 2018

Get started with this strongly-typed superset of JavaScript. Byron Houwens explains the benefits of types and interfaces in his introduction to TypeScript.

Converting Your Typographic Units with Sass

HTML & CSS

By Byron Houwens, August 22, 2017

Byron shows us a neat Sass function to convert typographic units in CSS. Learn how to convert pixels into em and percentage units with the magic of Sass.

Sass Functions to Kick-Start Your Style Sheets

HTML & CSS

By Byron Houwens, August 16, 2017

Byron shows us some of Sass functions built into the language and shows how you can use them to kick-start your style sheets.

Building the Earth with WebGL and JavaScript

JavaScript

By Byron Houwens, March 10, 2015

Byron Houwens shows off some of the features of the WebGL spec by building a rotatable model Earth with three.js and some custom scripting.