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Matthew Gerstman

Matthew not Matt (he/him). Staff Engineer at Bluecore. Previously at Dropbox, TodayTix, Zetta.

Surviving The Technical Interview

Surviving The Technical Interview

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.

Beetlejuice

Hugh Jackman: Wolverine on Ice

Hugh Jackman: Wolverine on Ice

We're Only Alive For a Short Amount of Time

We're Only Alive For a Short Amount of Time

Mel Brooks on Broadway

Mel Brooks on Broadway

Five Shows, Three Days

Five Shows, Three Days

Over Memorial Day weekend I set out to break my (personal) record of most shows in a weekend. Three matinees, two evening performances. Let's dive in. Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus Friday night was Gary, a bizarre show. In fact, for most of it I found myself

The Ferryman

I tend to view things on repeat. I've seen Network twice, Be More Chill four times, and Hamilton nine times. Usually my bar for how much I like something is how many times I want to see it again. This makes the Ferryman particularly unique for me in

King Lear

Oklahoma!

Hadestown

Kiss Me Kate

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Socrates

Ain't No Mo'

How I Prepare A Tech Talk

How I Prepare A Tech Talk

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.

White Noise

Network - On Stage Seating

Network - On Stage Seating

Reduce, Reduce, Reduce

Reduce, Reduce, Reduce

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.

Sea Wall / A Life

Sea Wall / A Life

Throttle and Debounce

Throttle and Debounce

In this article, we're going to talk about two of the most important functions in frontend development, throttle and debounce.

Map, Filter, Reduce

Map, Filter, Reduce

In this article we'll go back to basics and cover three of the most important functions in functional programming, map, filter, and reduce.

Alice By Heart

Mary Had a Little Lambda

Mary Had a Little Lambda

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.

What the Functor?

What the Functor?

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem? Hopefully, you'll understand this when we're done.

Everything I Wish I Knew Before My First Internship

Everything I Wish I Knew Before My First Internship

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.

Be More Chill - First Preview

Be More Chill - First Preview