Compound Components

Keep it flexible, keep it working

Context, Composition, and Flexibility

Algorithms: Insertion Sort

Algorithms: Bubble Sort

JSX was a Mistake

Capture Phase Event Handling in React

Why Use useReducer?

Patterns for Functions with Conditionals

Updating State with a Component

Not with a State Updater Function

Conway's Game of Life

The Simulation Pattern

The Wrapped State Setter Pattern

Parametric Design

The “Folded Code” Test

My Course Platform

How and Why I Built It

How I Would Use a UI Library

What is a Factory Function?

Careful with Context Composition

Comparing `useRef` and `useState`

What is a Closure?

Prefer Function Updaters in State Setters

Dependency Injection and Default Parameters

or One Way to Make Your Programs More Flexible

Discriminated Unions and Destructuring in TypeScript

Prefer Declarative State Updaters

or Don't Pass Around Naked State Setters, Please

How I Structure My React Projects

What are “Magic Values”?

`useMemo` and Stable Values

Symbolic Logic

or Algebra meets Logic

Set Theory

A Primer

What is a Tuple?

Conditional React Hooks

Debounce and Throttle Callbacks with React Hooks

How to Use React Context Effectively

Facade Pattern

or why this pattern might save your bacon

useEncapsulation

or Why Your React Components Should Only Use Custom Hooks

Encapsulation

or the Primary Purpose of Functions

Use Old School State

or Bringing Back the Callback

Helpful Debugging Hooks

Headlight Vision

or The Challenge of Only Driving at Night

Pattern Matching in JavaScript

...well, sort of...

Generator Functions

Multiple Boolean Props are a Code Smell

Mental Model of Use Effect

or Don't Use the Dependencies Array as a Conditional

Tic-Tac-Toe in React

Using `React.memo` to Avoid Unnecessary Rerenders

Memoization: What, Why, and How

Trading Space for Time

The Three Kinds of React State

Adding Guards to a `useReducer` Finite State Machine

Break Out Your Component Logic with Hooks

Adding Infinite States to a `useReducer` Finite State Machine

Can a State Machine be a String?

A Superfluous Experiment in Brevity

How to Use `useReducer` as a Finite State Machine

Guidelines for State Machines and XState

Managing Cyclomatic Complexity

Recursive React Components

Enumerate, Don't Booleanate

The Future of Second Career Devs

How to Render an Object in React

Building a `Log` Component

How to Add Algolia Search to a Gatsby Site

Graphs Are Everywhere

When `else`s Make Your Code Worse

or An Example on How Small Refactors Can Improve Your Code

A Plea for Imagination

aka Learn to Remix

Just Enough FP: Composition

Just Enough FP: Pointfree

Just Enough FP: Argument Order

Just Enough FP: Partial Application

Just Enough FP: Currying

Just Enough FP: Immutability

Just Enough FP: Pure Functions

Just Enough FP: Higher Order Functions

Just Enough Functional Programming Course Launch

Your Own Gathering

Firebase and Gatsby, Together At Last

or How I Fixed an Unexpected Snafu

State Machines: The XState Visualizer

State Machines: Our First XState Machine

State Machines: What Are They?

Why I Rewrote My Blog With Gatsby

Or How to Respond When Your WordPress Blog Gets Hacked

The Importance of Competing Thoughts

The Role of Timing In a Job Hunt

How to be More Successful on Your Next Web Developer Job Hunt

3 Tips for Changing Your Career to Coding

and One Bonus Tip! (Why Keep You in Suspense, Right?!)

Let Me Tell You About This Cat

From Pastor to Programmer

or Telling My Story Once and For All

Not All “Just JavaScript” is the Same

How to Write Your Own JavaScript DOM Element Factory

A Basic HyperScript h() Function

My Mock Interview Experience with Rick Altherr from Google

or Practice Without the Pressure

Make Your Own Charts in React Without a Charting Library

How I Stumbled Upon Normalizing Redux State

and later learned it's a real thing

ShevyJS

What I Love About React #1

Renders with Ternaries

What is Most Important to a Web Developer?

the Tech, the Product, or the People

Renderless Components

or How Logic Doesn't Always Need a UI

Zeno's Paradox of Infinite Loop Scrolling

or Everything Moves but You

Head Scratcher #1

Making a 2D Array by Sorting an Array of Objects

How to Dynamically Render React Components

Loading State Trick for Stateless Functional Components in React

How To Use Client Side Libraries in a Universal JavaScript App

State Snapshots in Redux

Why I Think Opening External Links In New Tabs Is a Bad Idea

JavaScript: External Links in New Tabs

Intro to D3.js and Data Visualization

Using && and || in Bash Scripts

My Favorite Git Aliases

Bash Shortcut: Copy your Present Working Directory to your Clipboard

Bash Shortcut: How to Make Directory and Change Directory in One Command

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