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.…
The play starts with a monologue by Leo, a black man, played by Daveed Diggs, about his insomnia, his friends, and the ever present white noise he hears in his head. He talks very little about race, although it becomes obvious that's the focal point of the play when he suffers from police brutality.…
I've now had the opportunity to watch Network, not once, or twice, but in three separate viewings of Network on Broadway. You could say I'm a fan. In this most recent experience, I ponied up for on-stage seating.…
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.…
Sometimes you show up to the theater and really have no idea what you're in for. I came in expecting some sort of monologue by Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge. What I got was two deeply moving pieces about love, family, and death.…
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.…
Some musicals hook us with a catchy soundtrack or dazzle us with big stage effects. Alice By Heart takes a different approach. This is a show built on deep emotions, beautiful music, impressive staging, and graceful choreography.…
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.…