Matthew Gerstman

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All in on HomeKit

All in on HomeKit

I've shared a lot of pictures of my apartment, but I haven't spent a whole lot of time talking about how automated this place is. I put a lot of work into automating it and thought I'd do a writeup. We're up to two HomePod Classics, four HomePod Minis, multiple Macs, and several dozen iPods.

History of the Web: Part 1

History of the Web: Part 1

Today I'm going to share twenty years of context on the web. We'll talk about how the web evolved into what we have today, and why it makes building web applications so hard in 2021.

Hamilton: The Movie

Hamilton: The Movie

ES-Everything: an ECMA Explainer

ES-Everything: an ECMA Explainer

Whats ES6? What about ESNext? TC39? ECMA? Transpilers? There's an entire ecosystem around shipping new-ish JavaScript to older browsers and how we decide what features get added to JavaScript in the first place. Let's dive in.

Harry Connick Jr: A Celebration of Cole Porter

Harry Connick Jr: A Celebration of Cole Porter

Slave Play

The Great Society

The Great Society

Scotland, PA

Cyrano

A Bright Room Called Day

A Bright Room Called Day

The Sound Inside

The Sound Inside

The Rose Tattoo

The Rose Tattoo

Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway

Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway

The Wrong Man

Only Human

Seared

Freestyle Love Supreme

Freestyle Love Supreme

Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors

Les Misérables in Concert

Les Misérables in Concert

Sir Ian McKellen

Sir Ian McKellen

Rent

Betrayal

Moulin Rouge

Hercules in the Park

Hercules in the Park

Performance Testing React With Anonymous Functions

Performance Testing React With Anonymous Functions

Over the past couple of years, anonymous functions have really taken off the React community. There have been a lot of claims of "this might affect performance." Up until now I haven't seen any real numbers, so I decided to get them on my own.