Relaunch! — JOURNAL

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

A JSON Feed Apology and Explanation — JOURNAL

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

The Infra Engineer’s Blind Spot — JOURNAL

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

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.

Building the Slow Way — JOURNAL

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

Tracking in the Glimmer VM↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

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

Data Constructors, Part 1: Understanding by Implementing  — JOURNAL

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

Data Constructors, Part 2: Better TypeScript  — JOURNAL

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

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.

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

A couple tweaks and improvements to a good post!

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).

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

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

Keep It Local — ELSEWHERE

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

Reading “A Functional Programming Language with Versions” — LIBRARY

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

Reading Settings! — JOURNAL

A few notes on pairing prefers-color-scheme and user configurability, as well as adding a little reading mode switch.

Ember v4 TypeScript Support Update↩︎ — ❈ — ELSEWHERE

Announcement: Speaking at TypeVille 2022  — ELSEWHERE

On the subject of “Types as Tools for Thought”

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).

SemVer for TS in Practice — JOURNAL

Showing how the recommendations from www.semver-ts.org can actually work in the real world.

Misusing TypeScript Assertion Functions for Fun and Profit — JOURNAL

A horrible (but very useful) hack I came up with yesterday for adding types to some old code.

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

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

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.

2022 in Review: Professional  — JOURNAL

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