Category: JavaScript

  • JavaScript in 2037

    I gave a talk at this years Richmond JavaScript Conference. I always wondered what would JavaScript look like then if many of the TC39 proposals were accepted. Given many take years, if I made the assumption by 2037, the few I wanted were approved, what would JavaScript look like then?

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  • Front-End Staff+ Career Paths

    Good video on front-end career path.

    These guys have done some bangers on the nuance around AI for coders. Yes, their titles are click baity, but they have the intelligence, experience, communication skills to produce good content. Three things I want to point out they don’t cover in this video.

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  • Encoders and Decoders in TypeScript

    Encoding

    Encoding in our context means converting a type to a string so we can save it to the web browser’s local storage. In soundly typed languages, this operation will never fail, but that is not true in JavaScript which TypeScript compiles to.

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  • First UI Story in Angular as a Functional Dev

    After 11 months, I got my 1st UI story. I’ve been doing Back-End for the Front-End stories since we’re a platform team, so 100% of the code you never visually see in the UI, but they affect how it works, so the Acceptance Tests in Cypress still have to pass.

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