April 08, 2019
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Making sense of functional programming requires a solid understanding of a few fundamental concepts. In my opinion, the first one you need to learn is the concept of "higher order functions". A higher order function is a function that meets at least one of the following requirements: It accepts a…
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Just Enough FPMarch 22, 2019
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In 2017, I came across The Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming by Brian Lonsdorf . It's an incredible resource and introduction to functional programming in JavaScript. It inspired me to start giving talks about functional programming in 2018. After giving the talk several times, I…
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Just Enough FPFebruary 02, 2019
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A few months back, Jason Lengstorf and I started a gathering for people in Portland to get together, relax, and get to know one another. Our biggest night so far had over 30 people crowding this cozy little backroom of a local bar. It was great. A lot of people have expressed experiencing…
January 27, 2019
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If you look just above the title of this post, you should see a beard icon and the phrase ${strokes} bestowed . It's a fun little indicator of how many likes this post has received to date. I built this using a Firebase Realtime Database . For those of you unfamiliar with Firebase, it's a cool…
January 24, 2019
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I made mention in my "What Are State Machines?" post of the fact that a state machine is a graph data structure. Each state a node. Each transition an edge triggered by an event. You remember, right? No worries if you don't, now you know. I also mentioned you can do cool things like create a…
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State MachinesJanuary 22, 2019
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In a previous post , I explained what a state machine is and how to build one from scratch. In this post, we're going to learn how to make our first state machine using the XState library . First step? You guessed it. Install the library into your project. Next, we're going to get the Machine…
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State MachinesJanuary 21, 2019
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Defining and managing state in software is a difficult challenge. Even simple systems can often be more complicated than they first seem. State machines provide a reliable interface for handling these systems and are capable of handling problems from the simple to the highly complex. A state machine…
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State MachinesJanuary 15, 2019
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When I was trying to write a recap of 2018, it became obvious to me that it would be easier to split what I wanted to say into two posts. The first, the one you're reading here, is a review of how I did on my goals for 2018. The second, which I will add a link to here when it is published, will be a…
January 09, 2019
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A couple weeks back now, I was starting to write a blog post to recap my 2018. I thought it would be a good idea to reference my goals for 2018 and started to review that post when I discovered something interesting. As I was reading a paragraph, I noticed some words that didn't sound like my voice…
November 10, 2018
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I had a need to create a custom Provider component for a slide deck using mdx-deck (if you're interested in learning how to make a custom Provider component for mdx-deck , check out my egghead lesson on it ). I didn't want to ever have to write it again, so I made a reusable component. After…
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