Systems and context at THAT Conference

It’s all that THAT Conference is not THOSE conferences. It’s about the developer as more than a single unit: this year, in multiple ways. I talked about our team as a system — more than a system, a symmathesy. Cory House said that if you want to change your life, change your systems. As humans, our greatest power …

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Understanding Promises in JavaScript (with yarn and Legos)

TL;DR: creating a Promise splits off another path of execution, and the Promise object represents the end of that path. Calling .then adds code to the end of that path. You can think of your program’s execution as following a piece of yarn. this video illustrates the difference between a synchronous program and the same program …

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The Imperial Yaks

(continued from Attack Yak; series begins with Taxonomy of Yak Shaving) Sometimes you’re coding along, writing tests as little experiments “this should fail because I haven’t implemented the parser for it yet” — and it fails in a way you didn’t expect. And then you start digging and the parsing library isn’t working how you expected. And …

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