On Wednesday I took a staycation* day off of work to hang out with my partner, relax, and also check out an exhibit at the Franklin Institute on mathematical patterns in nature since I won tickets through a Yelp giveaway. I would recommend it, if you’re a member already and are only spending an extra $5 […]
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On podcasts
2A couple items of podcast news! One: Turing-Incomplete is out of podfade*! * podfade – when a podcast stops publishing episodes, and sort of fades out of existence for either a break or permanently. A couple changes: For Turing-Incomplete, we’re now going to record by season (season 1 ran for two years and had 92 […]
Thoughts from Google I/O 2017 Days 2 & 3
0Because of how writing worked out, I’m grouping days 2 & 3 of Google I/O 2017 in this post. If you’re curious about day 1, it’s over here. Day 2 On day 2, I tired out quickly, probably from a combination of a lot of travel, the heat, and starting the day attempting to learn […]
Thoughts from Google I/O 2017 (Day 1)
0I thought I’d do some reporting on my experience here at Google I/O. This is my first one (ticket courtesy of the Google Developer Experts Program), and so I’ll collect my thoughts/learnings/experiences here. Getting in/Registration Fairly easy. I’m splitting an AirBnB with a fellow GDE who is attending his 8th Google I/O, so I have […]
The Serverless Revolution for Everyone
0I just gave my talk on “The Serverless Revolution for JavaScript Developers” at OSCON but one of the first things I did was clarify that while my code samples were in JS, serverless architecture is really a cloud architecture trend that everyone should be aware of, if not adopt somewhere in their architecture. Here are […]
2016 in review
2Welcome to the 2016 “bullets” post (previous years). The phrase I used in visioning for this year was “to rest in my own power.” WTF does that mean? Besides (imo) sounding very cool, I consider resting in my own power to be recognizing myself for my accomplishments, but also for my inherent worth and value. […]
async/await and why it’s so great
1It took a while, but it happened … I ran into a problem that async/await solved! The problem Before we talk about async/await, let’s talk about problems where it makes sense. Let’s say we want to do asynchronous things. Because we live in the future (or use a transpiler), we write us a Promise: const […]
What I learned at Polymer Summit
3This week, I spent 2 days at the Polymer Summit in London. I confess – I went mostly because I planned to be working remotely in London at the time, and this event was (!!) completely gratis (free, $0, £0, etc). At worst, I thought, I could eat for free and mooch some wifi. As someone […]
Object.assign is pretty rad!
4It’s come up twice in the last couple of weeks, so I thought it might be a good time for a blog post! Object.assign? Ever passed around an Object and needed to modify a key? But you don’t want that modified object running around and causing other problems? There’s a cool useful web technology for […]
My #1 advice for getting into web development
1A friend of mine bribed me with lunch the other day to talk about transitioning into a web development, or possibly UX role. They laid out their plan, which included building an extensive open source library of tools to use when projects came up. My response was to get the projects, and use them as […]