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Spotify Archivist
So for the last 10 years I've been adding songs to my Spotify liked songs. It's great but every once in a while a song comes on and I think... "do I really still like this song?" I… [more]
Team! A Module For Teams!
…the past I've done something similar, but just using a JSON file, or yml file. To make my life easier in the future, and maybe yours, I took those thoughts and produced this template repo . It… [more]
Meet with me!
Come meet with me about software engineering things, career things, business things, or bike things. If the calendar below doesn't work, it doesn't seem to love mobile devices, go here instead [more]
Some Thoughts on Engineering Leaderhip
So this article started as a thread of tweets . I want to expand on it, so I am going to quote all the tweets here and then try to explain more about the topics they are touching on. Try to take it a… [more]
Software Engineer vs. Software Developer
…discussed some of those changes in a talk I gave at Utah JS conf a few years ago. The long and short of it though is that these two titles are likely indistinguishable. But, I think it is worth… [more]
Lumio UtahJS Conf 2022
Welcome! I've been at Lumio for a few months now (ok fine 8 months) and I am looking for more people to join our rapidly expanding team. Check out the jobs, and more information about our team… [more]
2020: A year
This has been a crazy year, but honestly an exciting one for me and my family. We've lived through multiple natural disasters, moved, changed jobs, survived a pandemic, had a new baby join us, and… [more]
The right Tools for the right job
…of when those tools need to be really fast to win a prize. JS is my sketching language and I typically solve first there and then convert to something faster, like Rust. The reason is that the startup… [more]
First Impressions: Redux/Flow
…it is going to get supplanted as the favored child of the JS world. The main thing that makes me say this is just the immense amount of boilerplate that exists in it. Reducers get huge. Actions… [more]
monument
…I’ve been working on a new application framework for nodejs. Monument is currently on it’s second major release. What is Monument Monument is focused on three things: Decoupled applications Developer… [more]
Language Drift and finding code beautiful
…This puts me in a specific group of developers who write js. It puts me at odds with many in the Eternal War of the Semicolon. As I was driving into work this morning I was listening to this interview… [more]
Being Senior Part 1- the books and data
…the data for anyone who attended my presentation at Utah JS Conference 2016 today. I am putting down my thoughts in a long form post which should hopefully be up in the next couple days. So with no… [more]
Io: the language, not the moon
…you want it to be which is really amazing. Want to parse JSON? Don’t bother with a parser… just extend the language to handle curly braces, square brackets, and colons. Done. It’s… [more]
safe-shrinkwrap: for all your shrinkwrapping needs
…if those dependencies make it into our npm-shrinkwrap.json file. safe-shrinkwrap corrects that by parsing your node_modules to find OS specific dependencies and removing them from your… [more]
2015: in review
…projects and should have my first contribution to nodejs merged soon. It was a good year for open source around here! I also spoke at Utah JS Conf on arrays, doing a deep dive on all the parts… [more]
Learning the Trade
…on JavaScript is a playlist of the talks Crockford gave on JS for YUI Books: JavaScript the Good Parts . Say what you will about Crockford this is still the foundational work for javascript… [more]
Thoughts on Components and stuff
…There is an order there, not unlike an array in JS. These small lower level components are much like Legos. They can be used to build many many different types of things. They have a public API for… [more]
Modules not Globals
Often newer JS developers ask when they should turn something into a standalone module. When should that function turn into its own file? There are lots of things we could talk about with… [more]
Line-Height... lineheight... line-height
…in as many browsers as you can get your hands on: http://jsfiddle.net/95cqM/1/ The line-height value changes based on whether it is specified merely as a ratio or using the em unit of measure, which… [more]
Audio and Old Androids
I just got done working on a project that involved the use of the audio tag (with flash fallback for IE) and thought I would share a couple of the issues that we ran into in working on it, and how… [more]
Toward a More Responsive Future
…in the browser meaning someone could execute arbitrary JS on your site. Setting that nightmare aside, if all the images on the third party system got replaced by ads to your biggest competitor, that… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…and check in your browser that you are getting the couchDB JSON object when you go to cherokee’s public dns. With that done you now have a very flexible architecture that will allow you to scale… [more]
Setting up Speed: Cherokee, Railo and CouchDB on AWS
…and check in your browser that you are getting the couchDB JSON object when you go to cherokee’s public dns. With that done you now have a very flexible architecture that will allow you to scale… [more]
Trust and the Box
…Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center(jsc) listening to Milt Heflin, one of jsc’s Associate Directors, describe some of the history that happened there to a group of educators… [more]