topic: JavaScript

Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.

I may also have written on this on earlier versions of my website:

(The even-earlier versions of the site existed… but are not relevant here.)

2019
- Nov
  - 28
    - A JSON Feed Apology and Explanation—JOURNAL
      
      All my best efforts and this is still where we end up!
2020
- Apr
  - 09
    - JavaScript Functional Immutable Update Performance—JOURNAL
      
      What are the performance implications of “immutable functional updates”?
- May
  - 13
    - mut (and set) and autotracking in Ember Octane —JOURNAL
      
      Understanding a surprising behavior—and fixing a refactoring hazard.
- Jun
  - 07
    - Building the Slow Way—JOURNAL
      
      Or, part of why rewrite is taking a while: I’m in this for the long haul.
- Aug
  - 17
    - Migrating Off of PromiseProxyMixin in Ember Octane —JOURNAL
      
      An important refactor for getting rid of mixins and proxies.
  - 28
    - Async Data and Autotracking in Ember Octane—JOURNAL
      
      Digging into the load helper and AsyncData type I introduced in an earlier post.
- Sep
  - 04
    - Tracking in the Glimmer VM↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      Chris Garrett (@pzuraq) explains to me how autotracking and the Glimmer (Ember) template layer connect!
  - 22
    - 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!
- Oct
  - 06
    - Initializing Class Fields in Ember Octane —JOURNAL
      
      One of the many small-but-lovely benefits of getting to use native classes in Ember Octane.
  - 24
    - 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.
  - 31
    - Notes on Thoughtbot’s “Stop Using 'any'”—JOURNAL
      
      A couple tweaks and improvements to a good post!
- Dec
  - 07
    - Ember Octane is a New Mental Model—JOURNAL
      
      …not a 1:1 translation from Ember Classic—but that’s often a big win!
  - 22
    - Understanding args in Glimmer Components—JOURNAL
      
      Clearing up a common confusion with a worked example.
2021
- Jan
  - 22
    - 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).
- Feb
  - 13
    - 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.
- Mar
  - 21
    - 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.
  - 29
    - Impromptu EmberConf 2021 AMA↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      In which my friend David Baker put me on the spot… and it was great!
  - 31
    - Keep It Local—ELSEWHERE
      
      Or: (part of) what “reasoning about your code” really means; being my EmberConf 2021 talk.
- May
  - 27
    - Chatting About Web Dev ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      Ember CLI history, ember-auto-import, web bundling, and more
- Dec
  - 31
    - Reading Settings!—JOURNAL
      
      A few notes on pairing prefers-color-scheme and user configurability, as well as adding a little reading mode switch.
2022
- Apr
  - 20
    - The Road to TypeScript↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      My EmberConf 2022 talk (with, again, a lot of non-Ember interest).
- May
  - 18
    - Conditional Modifiers and Helpers in Ember—JOURNAL
      
      A handy feature you can use in recent versions of Ember.
- Aug
  - 05
    - On the Ember Blog: Plain Functions as Helpers ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
      
      Making sure people understand a new feature we shipped which is a big deal.
- Dec
  - 09
    - Reasoning About Reference Cycles—JOURNAL
      
      Rust’s lifetime types are challenging, but they bring a capability I miss all the time in other languages.
  - 21
    - Patterns for “Smart” Components in Ember—JOURNAL
      
      …which generalize to other frameworks pretty well, too.

2019

Nov

28

A JSON Feed Apology and Explanation—JOURNAL

2020

Apr

09

JavaScript Functional Immutable Update Performance—JOURNAL

May

13

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

Jun

07

Building the Slow Way—JOURNAL

Aug

17

Migrating Off of PromiseProxyMixin in Ember Octane —JOURNAL

28

Async Data and Autotracking in Ember Octane—JOURNAL

Sep

04

Tracking in the Glimmer VM↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

22

Autotracking: Elegant DX Via Cutting-Edge CS —JOURNAL

Oct

06

Initializing Class Fields in Ember Octane —JOURNAL

24

Writing Robust TypeScript Libraries—JOURNAL

31

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

Dec

07

Ember Octane is a New Mental Model—JOURNAL

22

Understanding args in Glimmer Components—JOURNAL

2021

Jan

22

Using Classes for Functional Programming—JOURNAL

Feb

13

Announcement: Speaking at EmberConf 2021 —ELSEWHERE

Mar

21

Progressive Disclosure of Complexity and Typed FP Languages—JOURNAL

29

Impromptu EmberConf 2021 AMA↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

31

Keep It Local—ELSEWHERE

May

27

Chatting About Web Dev ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Dec

31

Reading Settings!—JOURNAL

2022

Apr

20

The Road to TypeScript↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

May

18

Conditional Modifiers and Helpers in Ember—JOURNAL

Aug

05

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

Dec

09

Reasoning About Reference Cycles—JOURNAL

21

Patterns for “Smart” Components in Ember—JOURNAL

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

Migrating Off of `PromiseProxyMixin` in Ember Octane —JOURNAL

Understanding `args` in Glimmer Components—JOURNAL