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