a moral undertaking — LIBRARY

Reading “A Functional Programming Language with Versions” — LIBRARY

The first academic research I’m aware of which actually takes Semantic Versioning seriously!

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 6  — JOURNAL

Given the tradeoffs in the space, what is the best set of compromises we can make?

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 5  — JOURNAL

What about styles? (A bonus post!)

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 4  — JOURNAL

Keeping, and improving on, one of Ember’s fundamental commitments — and biggest strengths: its integrated testing.

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 3  — JOURNAL

Evaluating the tradeoffs of template language designs for tooling.

Anki and Spaced Repetition — JOURNAL

Notes on working with a new system, 5½ months along.

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 2  — JOURNAL

Which template imports design has the biggest set of wins for teaching and understanding components?

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 1  — JOURNAL

Introducing the series and walking through the formats.

…such is God’s mercy — LIBRARY

Reading for world-building — LIBRARY

Mall Sign — PHOTOS

The Sony α7C — JOURNAL

A mini-review after renting the camera and using it for almost a week back in July.

From the Visitor Center — PHOTOS

Cameras and Attention (Redux) — JOURNAL

A mild “yes/and” on a theme often highlighted by contemporary tech critical commentary.

God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology  —  Volume I: God and the Works of God  — LIBRARY

The first of two volumes of collected essays and papers by John Webster. Very, very scholarly.

…revelation disturbs  — LIBRARY

‘It is “an interruption which addresses us.”’

Spiritual Experiences — Intellectual and Emotional — JOURNAL

A warning.

Theological Anthropology Comes First — JOURNAL

You don’t get a healthy politics if you answer the question “What is a human?” incorrectly.

What if PageRank Was a Mistake? — JOURNAL

A provocation on our algorithmic present and a curational (curative?) alt-history.

Alley sunset — PHOTOS

Praising God — LIBRARY

Two quotes from a John Webster sermon of the same title: on worship, and the one worshipped.

MusicXML and Percussion Notation — JOURNAL

Digging into How Dorico and StaffPad represent percussion differently.

StaffPad to Dorico via MusicXML? Alas, no.  — JOURNAL

A tale of woe! …but with some tips for less woeful tales to sooth the bitter pill this is.

StaffPad Versions — JOURNAL

Making it easy to keep track of your composing history in StaffPad.

Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight ↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

You can now search for my name in Spotify, Apple Music, etc., and you will find there: orchestra music!

creation is pure generosity — LIBRARY

‘Life… finds a way.’ — PHOTOS

A lonely little plant — from our family trip to Dinosaur National Monument.

My Current Photography Setup — JOURNAL

Could also be filed under “from my sent messages.”

Revealed and Stated Preferences — JOURNAL

On Ben Thompson’s weekly article on Instagram, Facebook, algorithmic feeds in general — and how economic analysis of behavior ranges from insufficient to awful.

Late Afternoon Lake — PHOTOS

Went for a walk, took my camera, was giddy that I had done so when I saw how beautiful the sky was.

Two quotes on creatio ex nihilo  — LIBRARY

Reread Books! — LIBRARY

Fiction, nonfiction, steak, popcorn: find books you love and reread them.

Miscellaneous Updates — JOURNAL

Or: it has been months since I wrote anything, so I’m scratching that itch.

Chatting About Web Dev ↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

Ember CLI history, ember-auto-import, web bundling, and more

not the imposition of an alien will — LIBRARY

exposition precedes disputation — LIBRARY

Balloons, of Course — PHOTOS

New Mexico Vacation, Day 8: seen on the way out of Albuquerque.

The Best Brewery I Visited in ABQ — PHOTOS

New Mexico Vacation, Day 7: the bar at High and Dry Brewing.

Lone Cactus — PHOTOS

New Mexico Vacation, Day 6: compensating for mid-day lighting to share a glimpse of this lonely/lovely plant.

Trailer Music Jam↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

The fruit of riffing on an idea at a coffee shop all afternoon.

Ramen and Ribs — PHOTOS

New Mexico Vacation, Day 5: some outstanding eats. (The typical ’gram photo.)

Slow Burn Coffee — PHOTOS

New Mexico Vacation, Day 4: the loveliest space I have yet seen in the city.

Three considerations on reading the Bible — LIBRARY

Webster expounding/expanding on Bonhoeffer and Barth.

Rio Grande Drainage — PHOTOS

New Mexico Vacation, Day 3: drainage water running into the Rio Grande, spotted on my run

Tiny Flowers for Color — PHOTOS

New Mexico Vacation, Day 2: a tiny flower on a little table outside a coffee shop.

“…our enemies, sin, the curse and death, are beaten.” — LIBRARY

“If you have heard the Easter message, you can no longer run around with a tragic face and lead the humourless existence of a man who has no hope.”

Motel Guest’s Only — PHOTOS

New Mexico Vacation, Day 1: An overflow lot in Las Vegas, New Mexico

Keep It Local — ELSEWHERE

Or: (part of) what “reasoning about your code” really means; being my EmberConf 2021 talk.

Impromptu EmberConf 2021 AMA↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

In which my friend David Baker put me on the spot… and it was great!

RFC: Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types ↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

In which years of thinking and months of design come to fruition.

Progressive Disclosure of Complexity and Typed FP Languages — JOURNAL

Or, one part of why to some extent Elm, and to a significant degree PureScript Halogen, can be quite difficult for users to get their heads around at first.

Dogmatic portrayal of the canon — LIBRARY

Introducing “Heuristics for Good Software Design” — JOURNAL

A series of posts in which I explain how I think about effective software design.

Naming and Framing — JOURNAL

Or, why did Accelerate matter for DevOps?

A Gap in (My Knowledge of) the Developer Productivity Literature  — JOURNAL

Where is the equivalent of Accelerate for anything outside of DevOps?

A Useful Approach to Problem-Solving — JOURNAL

(It’s useful to me, at least.)

Announcement: Speaking at EmberConf 2021  — ELSEWHERE

In which I’ll be speaking for 30 minutes at a JS conference… and will spend only about 5 of those minutes on JS.

Scarcities — JOURNAL

In which what was supposed to be a quick, Robin Sloan- and Craig Mod-inspired, note on attention and cryptothings… somehow morphed into the dream of a research program for something much, much different.

I Am Not An Original Thinker — JOURNAL

And it turns out that’s actually totally fine.

A path away from Kant? — LIBRARY

Koyzis’ provocative thesis on authority and liberty.

Using Classes for Functional Programming — JOURNAL

We tend to think classes are inherently for object-oriented programming, but they are much more flexible than that in JavaScript and TypeScript (and other languages too).

God with us, God for us — LIBRARY

Just Write — JOURNAL

Even if you only have five minutes: write anyway.

holiness and jealousy — LIBRARY

God as the Holy One and God as Redeemer and Saviour — LIBRARY

not primarily morally legislative but soteriological — LIBRARY

God is holy as he bends down to us in mercy — LIBRARY

Wrapping Up 2020 and Starting 2021 — JOURNAL

Goodbye, good riddance, won’t look back fondly on this one.

thus… have we made the world — LIBRARY

the trap of thinking that we know what’s going on here — LIBRARY

Understanding args in Glimmer Components — JOURNAL

Clearing up a common confusion with a worked example.

all the difference in the world — LIBRARY

the requirement for theological reason  — LIBRARY

an exercise of fellowship with the saints — LIBRARY

Ember Octane is a New Mental Model — JOURNAL

…not a 1:1 translation from Ember Classic — but that’s often a big win!

Reluctantly Returning to Social Media — JOURNAL

I have to be on social media professionally… but I don’t have to live there.

We speak in God’s presence — LIBRARY

reason is a field of God’s sanctifying work — LIBRARY

an exercise of holiness — LIBRARY

the unholy science? — LIBRARY

Private Chat and DMs Are Good, Actually  — ESSAYS

Don’t forget the lessons of physical offices when thinking about chat.

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore — LIBRARY

Robin Sloan’s debut novel was just astonishing.

Notes on Thoughtbot’s “Stop Using ‘any’” — JOURNAL

A couple tweaks and improvements to a good post!

Writing Robust TypeScript Libraries — JOURNAL

A subtler art than it might at first appear, if you intend to support JS or even loose mode TS.

Data Constructors, Part 2: Better TypeScript  — JOURNAL

A deep dive on more idiomatic TypeScript implementations of ML-style data constructors.

God teaches us — LIBRARY

Initializing Class Fields in Ember Octane  — JOURNAL

One of the many small-but-lovely benefits of getting to use native classes in Ember Octane.

Finding Holy in the Suburbs — LIBRARY

A solid popular-level book — which I wish pushed just a little harder than it does.

Politics & The Order of Love — LIBRARY

A good book, if not quite the one I hoped for.

Things I Was Wrong About: Types  — JOURNAL

Because it would do us all good to be a little more honest about where we’ve changed our minds or simply been mistaken.

Autotracking: Elegant DX Via Cutting-Edge CS  — JOURNAL

A modern JavaScript reactivity system powered by Lamport clocks and incremental computation and depth-first searches: oh my!

A Chalcedonian conceptual grammar for love and justice — LIBRARY

What if we thought of “love” and “justice” like the hypostatic union?

All is broken and incomplete, and politics can not heal the rupture.  — LIBRARY

Summarizing the basic shared commitments of all Augustinian liberals, whatever their many other differences

Data Constructors, Part 1: Understanding by Implementing  — JOURNAL

Understanding an idea from Standard ML-like languages by implementing it in (boring) TypeScript.

Tracking in the Glimmer VM↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

Chris Garrett (@pzuraq) explains to me how autotracking and the Glimmer (Ember) template layer connect!

Can You Recommend a Book on This? — JOURNAL

Probably not, unfortunately. Maybe I can write something up, though?

Async Data and Autotracking in Ember Octane — JOURNAL

Digging into the load helper and AsyncData type I introduced in an earlier post.

the mixed moral qualities of any age — LIBRARY

In which Eric Gregory makes it clear that this book is extremely for me.

Migrating Off of PromiseProxyMixin in Ember Octane  — JOURNAL

An important refactor for getting rid of mixins and proxies.

Twitter and Me, Redux — JOURNAL

A 2020 update on my take on that particular social medium.

Good theology demands good theologians — LIBRARY

How spiritual formation is not mere interiority or “authenticity” but death-and-resurrection at the hand of the living God.

The first and last act of theological existence — LIBRARY

Polemic is Hard — LIBRARY

One can only take so much bludgeoning-of-bad-ideas before growing weary of a book.

theological self-criticism — LIBRARY

the story of modern theology — LIBRARY

Christian Theology’s Place in the University — LIBRARY

Or, John Webster cracking very wise.

Humans of Open Source↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

Chatting with Sean Chen about open source, Christian humanism, and working in public.

The Real Aim of Utopias — LIBRARY

Perfectionism Without Perfectibility — LIBRARY

Please Reply! — JOURNAL

My Atom and JSON feeds gained a new “feature.”

On Ending “This Week I Learned” — JOURNAL

At least for now, I don’t have time for this particular bit of blogging. And that’s okay.

An anti-culture — LIBRARY

What theology must be if it is to be healthy and fruitful as a field.

Christian astonishment — LIBRARY

Good Theologians — LIBRARY

Presence — JOURNAL

A few notes on God-with-us in his Word and at his Table.

A Git Workflow for Managing Long-Running Upgrades — JOURNAL

Using some lessons learned in the trenches of large upgrades.

Sourdough — LIBRARY

Easily the most delightful book I’ve read in years.

Building the Slow Way — JOURNAL

Or, part of why rewrite is taking a while: I’m in this for the long haul.

Reading Habits — JOURNAL

How exactly do I go about reading, and what do I read these days?

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 8  — JOURNAL

SpaceX launched today, and I am launching the rough draft of “Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight” to honor it!

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 7  — JOURNAL

Memorial Day and Thursday night progress…

Making Illegal States Unrepresentable — In TypeScript — JOURNAL

Showing how Scott Wlaschin’s approach in F^♯ translates to a language with a very different type system.

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 6  — JOURNAL

A surprising amount of progress over the weekend — the muscles are coming back!

This Week I Learned #5 — JOURNAL

This Week I Learned #4 — JOURNAL

Designing an Atomic CSS System — JOURNAL

Making my CSS scalable from the outset.

mut (and set) and autotracking in Ember Octane  — JOURNAL

Understanding a surprising behavior — and fixing a refactoring hazard.

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 5  — JOURNAL

Fighting a horrible mood by making progress anyway. Not much. But enough.

This Week I Learned #3 — JOURNAL

Less reading this week… because more composing.

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 4 (Part 2)  — JOURNAL

Reworking rhythms to make the next section of this piece connect more clearly to the first.

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 4 (Part 1)  — JOURNAL

I have a version of this piece I could publish! Now to get the rest of it done…

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 3  — JOURNAL

The first draft of the first section is complete!

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 2  — JOURNAL

I wrote some good harmonic lines! I started learning a new notation software program!

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 1  — JOURNAL

Sharing my work as it happens for this composition.

Follow-Up on Command-Line Finding and Filtering — JOURNAL

A simpler solution that doesn’t require tr… if you have GNU utils or other alternatives.

find, grep, xargs, and newlines and null — JOURNAL

Turns out tr is your friend for this kind of thing.

This Week I Learned #2 — JOURNAL

The Infra Engineer’s Blind Spot — JOURNAL

Why I ended up down a rabbit hole instead of shipping.

This Week I Learned #1  — JOURNAL

JavaScript Functional Immutable Update Performance — JOURNAL

What are the performance implications of “immutable functional updates”?

Superscript and Subscript Line Heights — JOURNAL

A tip for better typography.

On “Saints” — JOURNAL

Should we prepend the term to “Paul” or “Augustine”?

All places tell stories — LIBRARY

Waiting for Communion — JOURNAL

A coronavirus reminder of our place in the time between the times.

The Lost World — LIBRARY

Not quite as spectacular as the first entry… but still a lot of fun.

Jurassic Park — LIBRARY

A book that knows it is both a sci-fi thriller and sociotechnological commentary.

The Triune Creator’s Relating to Creation — LIBRARY

God’s self-commitment to creatures — LIBRARY

Scripting Affiliate Links in Alfred — JOURNAL

Perhaps weirdly, I haven’t done much of this before!

Adding a Reading List Page — LIBRARY

A central place to see what I’ve read and what I’ve said about it!

How I Publish This Site — JOURNAL

Explaining how I run this site — everything.

Ulysses Publishing With WordPress on Linux — JOURNAL

A tech tip for other folks using WordPress on custom Linux setups.

Problematic — LIBRARY

You keep using that word. I’m not sure you know what you think it means.

Fall-Centered Theological Anthropologies — LIBRARY

Tiamat’s Wrath — LIBRARY

The things only the eighth book in a series can do.

Please Don’t Just Screenshot Books! — JOURNAL

A PSA to writers-on-the-web about how we share text.

Tell Me Your Priors! — LIBRARY

A gap I wish David H. Kelsey’s introduction in Eccentric Existence had filled.

An Atom Feed Apology — JOURNAL

Doubly embarrassing for having now messed up both of my feeds.

Epistemic Status — JOURNAL

Making explicit just how confident I am (or am not).

A Decadal Kind of Change — JOURNAL

Rethinking this site — and my own vocations — as the 2010s give way to the 2020s.

Adieu to 2019 — JOURNAL

A year of rest and recovery, for which I’m profoundly grateful.

Dark Matter — LIBRARY

I could not put this book down. Also, it was kind of creepy.

Recursion — LIBRARY

Blake Crouch’s latest thriller is — delightfully — about something.

Writing Implements — JOURNAL

Sheer delight — by way of writing in a Pano Totebook with a Uniball Signo RT1 0.38mm.

Endings and Edges — JOURNAL

Reflections prompted by Michael Sacasas’ wrapping up a decade of blogging.

Red Mars — LIBRARY

Kim Stanley Robinson’s imagination is provocative in the best ways.

Decaffeinating — JOURNAL

How and why I switched to mostly decaf coffee.

On Remembering Scripture — JOURNAL

Time to stop leaning so hard on search.

Some Thoughts on micro.blog — JOURNAL

I like the service. But I’m not using it.

25,462 Words — JOURNAL

Reflections on a month of writing.

A JSON Feed Apology and Explanation — JOURNAL

All my best efforts and this is still where we end up!

…but Running is Sunlight — JOURNAL

(Why yes, that is a riff on Superman.)

Travel is my Kryptonite — JOURNAL

It ruins all my normal habits and rhythms and tanks my productivity.

Twitter Bots and “Decline” — JOURNAL

Picking up a dropped thread from Winning Slowly 7.13

Writing Requires Reading — JOURNAL

…as my November-writing adventures make clear!

Relaunch! — JOURNAL

A new website design and implementation for 2020 and beyond — with a new title to boot!