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Question to JS people using Redux. Are the middlewares used to control side effects in actions considered monads? The action returns a description of the side effect, and the middl…

Only connecting the root component, fetching the entire state, and passing down all those props manually isn't proper. You shouldn't pass props that can be grabbed directly from th…

Clojurescript is the most complete to JS languange. The build and developer tools are _ahead_ of Javascript. The language is great too, and it's pretty 1:1 with javascript, plus al…

BFA in Illustration, currently leading the UI team at a 'big data' company in NYC. I'd say what translates from art to tech is the constant spiral of learning and improving. It tak…

Try spacemacs everyone, it's incredible, and the cider repl for clojure is the real deal. I was a long time vim user who tried to switch to emacs for a month but abandoned it for i…

> For some people conscious existence is too burdensome, uncomfortable, full of anxiety, outright maddening or some combination thereof. Reading this gives me immediate anxiety. I …

I cut my teeth on Ember at a marketing company in 2013, and actually found my current job through acquaintances made by attending a weeklong Ember training session in Boston (led b…

React and mobx is like clojurescript's Reagent library, which I think is the next level after react-redux. It's like pseudocode, here's a direct translation of reagent's clock exam…

You could reduce the height of the number row by half, add that vertical space to the space bar, and turn the spacebar into 3 parts: regular buttons on the wings where your thumbs …

At work I've started keeping the reducer in the actions file, anyone else do that? This way they can share the same const declarations, and you don't have to toggle between two fil…

KISS: - Only use cascading for global theme styles, like type faces - Don't nest rules with sass or w/e, it's too hard to know what's affecting what in a template - Naming conventi…

Bootcamps make people employable for sure, I work with a team of people mostly from Bootcamps. I think the problem with some of them is they don't actually like programming. Learni…