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.…
In this post we'll cover the various other files in the library. While some of these contain simple utilities, others are much more complex. We'll also cover the infamous redux-thunk.…
In this article we'll be covering createStore. This is the function that sets up the redux store and provides access to getState, dispatch, subscribe, and replaceReducer.…
Higher order components are a useful pattern for creating composable logic within a React application. While they're not as popular as other tools like render props or hooks, they're still worth knowing.How do higher order components work? Well as we discussed in Functional Programming Fundamentals, higher order functions take…