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Software engineering lessons from production, raw and honest from the heart — almost 20 years of them. Jump to a year in the sidebar, or browse categories and curated collections.

September 2016

Backbone → React: it's a people problem after all ?

Backbone → React – Step 1

Livecoding #22: A door-answering Slackbot

Firefox is slow, Lodash is fast

Object clone performance: preliminary results

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A puzzle in JavaScript objects

This is a puzzle you can run into if you’re not careful, and sometimes, despite your best efforts, even if you are careful. It happened to me when I had a settings object that I passed into a view. The view then did things. When I made a new view from the settings object, it looked like the view I had just cleared.

Work on React+D3js ES6 v2 begins in earnest

The one thing flexbox can't do

It's a trap

I Got Schooled

Backbone with ES6

August 2016

How to add ESLint to your project

I added linting to a 3-year old project. You can totally guess what happened next.

Livecoding #21: Use Babel for libraries, not Webpack

After a year, my first business diary retires

Slack lied to me

It's Just Like Knitting

MacOS filesystem's annoying little quirk

Animated string diffing with React and D3

Livecoding #20: You can’t extend an object

Teaching beginners

The ES6 Cheatsheet story and results

Conway’s game of life in Google Docs

Livecoding #19: It’s hard to package a library

JavaScript can fetch() now and it's not THAT great

I broke AJAX in Chrome 52 ?

JS object optimization bug in Chrome 52

Livecoding #18: An abstract React transition component