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December 31, 2018

My Annual Review 2018

Here’s my annual professional review covering 2018.

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July 17, 2018

JavaScript Equality

A few weeks ago, I built an app with React.js and create-react-app that I call ‘JavaScript Equality’. View deployment here. This application demonstrates the JavaScript value-comparison operators == and ===. It’s inspired by the JavaScript Equality Table.

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July 11, 2018

mgrim: Everything Updated All The Time

My current favorite command line alias is mgrim, composed of four other aliases. Here’s what it is, and what it does.

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July 9, 2018

Comprehensive Instructions

A user opened an issue in Tilex last week that I spent a significant amount of time thinking about and talking about (thanks JB) before responding to. Here’s the truncated request:

May I ask you to compile a step-by-step list to set up a running TIL instance?

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December 31, 2017

My Annual Review 2017

Here’s my annual professional review covering 2017.

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September 17, 2017

The Universal Programming Language

Recently I tried to answer a question that I think is common to consider when you’re first learning about computer programming. I’ll paraphrase:

Why can’t there be an “universal” programming language that serves all purposes?

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August 9, 2017

How I Talk: My Guide to Tech Public Speaking

I’ve been giving technical talks for a few years, and I’m speaking at the Vim Chicago Meetup next month about integrating React with Vim. In this post, I’m going to use that opportunity as an excuse to document my speaking process.

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July 19, 2017

It's Done

When a stakeholder asks for a change to the software I’m building, my typical responses are, in order: “Got it.” Then: “I’m working on that issue.” Finally: “It’s done.” Here’s an alternative: skip the first two conversations and go straight to the third. As soon as you can, just do the thing, and respond with: “It’s done.”

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June 19, 2017

Don't Build Every Feature

There’s a detail about Today I Learned some might find unusual: we never added a way to delete posts from the site. Why ignore a basic CRUD feature? We didn’t ignore it. It was intentionally omitted.

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June 10, 2017

Work Small

Write programs that do one thing and do it well. –The Unix Philosophy

I believe in working small.

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