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Disjunctive Normal Form and other fine reads
…community. First, Ruby is probably one of the best first languages out there. It’s syntax is friendly to no and slightly closer to English. I mean it has some odd logical elements like ‘unless’ that… [more]
2021: Year in Review
…II | 2021 Your Users Can Code - Building Programming Languages for your Users Why Position Trumps Power ft. Lanterne Rouge Bela Fleck teaches us his ’three-finger’ style banjo technique… [more]
The right Tools for the right job
…push yourself and force yourself to try new things and new languages. Plus they are really good practice for interviews. [more]
First Impressions: Redux/Flow
…principles. Second, I am not a fan of types in my untyped languages. Those things said I think the developer ergonomics of Flow and Redux are pretty awful at first glance. I think this means a couple… [more]
Let's talk about Boot camps
So the giant article I’ve been planning to write from what I learned prepping for that talk I gave on being senior a while ago has stalled. So instead I am going to write about small chunks of it.… [more]
Language Drift and finding code beautiful
…we should be able to rejoice in the diversity of ways that languages can be used to solve computing problems. I am as guilty of this as anyone. So I am committing now to rejoice more, to criticize… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
This is the first in the Seven Languages series of posts and covers the Io language , a small prototypal language. Let’s get this out of the way right now. I love Io . It’s amazing. The… [more]
Seven Languages
…a book club at work and we are running through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks (but we are doing it in 14 weeks instead). So far the book is fantastic but I want to get even more familiar with the… [more]
Learning the Trade
…bite size videos. exercism.io is a cool tool for learning languages that I’ve been playing with lately. Like it a lot. Exercises is similar to exercism in scope but focused on js only. [more]
Biology and CSS
…isn’t CS inheritance that you have seen in other languages. This is inheritance as your body knows it. This is one of the most dynamic and powerful inheritance models in existence. Enjoy it!… [more]
Design Tools are Broken
…actually look like in context with realism. 2. Data and Languages I am grouping these two because they are manifestations of the same problem. Most design tools do not allow you to easily add and… [more]
Short Circuit and the Javascript IF Statement
…is almost as cool. In javascript, as in many programming languages logical and statements short circuit if the first element isn't true. So basically if you say if(false && true) Javascript start… [more]