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.…
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.…
I've found myself giving a bunch of advise on technical interviews lately and thought it'd make for a good blog post. Here's my guide to surviving interviews.…
Almost weekly someone will ask me how do I put together a tech talk. I'd like to think I've gotten pretty good at answering. In fact I've gotten so used to sharing The Matthew Gerstman Method that it might as well be it's own talk. That's too meta for me, so I went with a blog post.…
After my last article on map, filter, and reduce there was an outpour of requests to do an article on just reduce. This time let’s dive into all the fun things you can do with reduce.…
In this article, we're going to talk about two of the most important functions in frontend development, throttle and debounce.…
In this article we'll go back to basics and cover three of the most important functions in functional programming, map, filter, and reduce.…
Originally I set out to write a sequel to Functional Programming Fundamentals that covered all of the scary jargon. This quickly evolved into What the Functor? In that article I covered monads, monoids, and functors. Now we have one last bit of scary functional jargon, lambdas.…
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem? Hopefully, you'll understand this when we're done.…
In 2012 I spent my first summer as an intern in the Bay Area. While it was a invaluable experience, there's so much I wish I knew before then. Here's a run-through of everything I wish I knew.…