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

Understanding a surprising behavior — and fixing a refactoring hazard.

Building the Slow Way — JOURNAL

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

Migrating Off of PromiseProxyMixin in Ember Octane  — JOURNAL

An important refactor for getting rid of mixins and proxies.

Async Data and Autotracking in Ember Octane — JOURNAL

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

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!

Initializing Class Fields in Ember Octane  — JOURNAL

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

Ember Octane is a New Mental Model — JOURNAL

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

Understanding args in Glimmer Components — JOURNAL

Clearing up a common confusion with a worked example.

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.

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.

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

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

Impromptu EmberConf 2021 AMA↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

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

Keep It Local — ELSEWHERE

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

Chatting About Web Dev ↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

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

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 1  — JOURNAL

Introducing the series and walking through the formats.

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 3  — JOURNAL

Evaluating the tradeoffs of template language designs for tooling.

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 5  — JOURNAL

What about styles? (A bonus post!)

Ember.js Template Imports: Part 6  — JOURNAL

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

Request for Comments: First-Class Component Templates ↩︎ — ❈ — JOURNAL

Given all the analysis from this series, a concrete proposal to move this forward!

Ember v4 TypeScript Support Update↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

Semantic Versioning for TypeScript Types 1.0.0-beta.1↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

After years of work, I’ve published the first beta of the spec for semantic versioning for TypeScript types!

The Road to TypeScript↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

My EmberConf 2022 talk (with, again, a lot of non-Ember interest).

Conditional Modifiers and Helpers in Ember — JOURNAL

A handy feature you can use in recent versions of Ember.

Whiskey, Web, and Whatnot: Bringing Types to Ember ↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

Chatting with the good folks at ShipShape about TypeScript, Ember, composing, whiskey, and more.

RFC: Evolving Ember’s Major Version Process ↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

On the Ember Blog: Plain Functions as Helpers ↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

Making sure people understand a new feature we shipped which is a big deal.

Open Source — JOURNAL

Notes on the sheer scale of recently-completed open source efforts of mine.

Announcing the Official TypeScript Types Public Preview↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

Wacky Tricks We Use in Publishing TypeScript Types (for Ember.js)↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

A walkthrough of the shenanigans we have to do to make TypeScript understand how to import @ember packages from ember-source.

Patterns for “Smart” Components in Ember — JOURNAL

…which generalize to other frameworks pretty well, too.

2022 in Review: Professional  — JOURNAL

My fourth year at LinkedIn: odd, and challenging — with some failures! — but not bad.