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
C-c-c'mon, c-c-c'mon, Go Go. Much like Jeremy waiting for, his "internet" to load, I spent all this week getting excited about the very first preview of Be More Chill. Soundtrack on repeat, waiting for the upgrade.…
To Kill a Mockingbird
I have a confession to make. I don't actually remember much of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. I read it many years ago and the details are about as fuzzy as what I had for breakfast last week. So when I saw the live production of To Kill A…
Superhero
I love new works. Being the first one to experience a show is an occurence that can't happen regularly enough. Especially when that show is at Second Stage Theater. Because of all this I was particullarly excited to see Superhero a new musical at Second Stage.…
How Redux Works - Part 2
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.…
How Redux Works - Part 1
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.…
TS Tricks: Higher Order Components
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…
TS Tricks: Type-safe Reducers
We're going to talk about how to build a type-safe reducer. Now, I use these for redux reducers, but these principles could apply to any function.…
TS Tricks: Type Guards
With everyone getting excited about Typescript I thought it'd be fun to do a walkthrough of one of my favorite features, type guards. These are type-safe functions that allow us to assert that an argument matches a certain type. The best part is these work at runtime!…
Hamilton in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Hamilton is a host unto itself. It has the power to bring people all over the world to see a unique and incredible musical. I've been lucky enough to see Hamilton eight times now and I couldn't miss the opportunity to see Lin Manuel-Miranda reprise his role as Alexander Hamilton.…