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All in on HomeKit
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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.
04 Jan 2022 10 min read
History of the Web: Part 1
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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.
01 Jun 2021 15 min read
Hamilton: The Movie
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Hamilton: The Movie

26 Jul 2020 20 min read
ES-Everything: an ECMA Explainer
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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.
05 Jan 2020 6 min read
Harry Connick Jr: A Celebration of Cole Porter
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Harry Connick Jr: A Celebration of Cole Porter

04 Jan 2020 1 min read
Slave Play
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Slave Play

03 Jan 2020 1 min read
The Great Society
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The Great Society

02 Jan 2020 2 min read
Scotland, PA
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Scotland, PA

31 Dec 2019 2 min read
Cyrano
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Cyrano

31 Dec 2019 1 min read
A Bright Room Called Day
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A Bright Room Called Day

31 Dec 2019 2 min read
The Sound Inside
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The Sound Inside

31 Dec 2019 1 min read
The Rose Tattoo
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The Rose Tattoo

14 Nov 2019 1 min read
Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway
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Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway

12 Nov 2019 3 min read
The Wrong Man
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The Wrong Man

11 Nov 2019 2 min read
Only Human
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Only Human

10 Nov 2019 2 min read
Seared
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Seared

10 Nov 2019 2 min read
Freestyle Love Supreme
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Freestyle Love Supreme

06 Nov 2019 2 min read
Little Shop of Horrors
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Little Shop of Horrors

04 Nov 2019 2 min read
Les Misérables in Concert
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Les Misérables in Concert

09 Oct 2019 2 min read
Sir Ian McKellen
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Sir Ian McKellen

07 Oct 2019 3 min read
Rent
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Rent

05 Oct 2019 2 min read
Betrayal
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Betrayal

03 Oct 2019 2 min read
Moulin Rouge
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Moulin Rouge

02 Oct 2019 2 min read
Hercules in the Park
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Hercules in the Park

01 Oct 2019 2 min read
Performance Testing React With Anonymous Functions
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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.
26 Sep 2019 6 min read
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