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:

2006 – 2011 (link coming soon!)
did not have a blog!
2012 – 2013 (link coming soon!)
2014 – 2019

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.

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

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

Migrating Off of `PromiseProxyMixin` in Ember Octane — JOURNAL

Understanding `args` in Glimmer Components — JOURNAL