In my testing, Svelte performs exceptionally well. — I heard a bunch of claims from the creator of Svelte about its render speed. I wanted to know more and delved into the source code. After reviewing the source and asking the creator a few questions, I tried my hand at breaking it with the 10,000 Processes code. This…

Best practice is bad practice. — There’s a famous StackOverflow question everyone links when I suggest using Function.prototype as opposed to creating and sharing no-op (no operation) functions all over your codebase. The question’s title: What is the JavaScript convention for no operation? Cacher’s code snippet manager empowers you and your team to get more done…

Using Redux-Observable for complex pipelines. — I’m an avid user of Redux-Observable, and while it masks a lot of the difficulties in using RxJS, you still need a deeper understanding of RxJS to handle really complex use cases. Using WebSockets, I’ll be showing you how you can make your own complex pipelines and understand them too! WebSocket connection with RxJS in Node.js …

A single tip for Redux-Observable success. — If you’ve spent any time with Redux-Observable, you’ve probably run into the case where you need to dispatch something at the top of a pipeline and then do something else after. This is a common problem, but not one that’s immediately apparent. Because Redux-Observable v1 automatically dispatches anything that falls…

Looking at things from a different perspective. — I’ve run into a situation where an idea I’ve come up with is referred to as an anti-pattern. I’m actually under the impression it’s a best-practice and the current way of doing things is counterproductive. This issue is in regards to Redux-Observable and its automatic dispatching of actions. It’s been…

WHY? — What if you could get most of the benefits of Redux and didn’t have to write a single reducer? What if you had to support a legacy AngularJS, jQuery, Backbone, or Knockout application? …

Breaking tough problems into small pieces. — I wanted to see someone else’s take on software engineering and started binge watching TechLead on YouTube. I spent the next few days coming up with various solutions to an interview question he asked while working at Google. This Video Got Me Excited TechLead brought up…

Smart Home Troubles You’ve Never Knew Existed — I’m writing this series (The Smart Home Reality) to detail my troubles creating a smart home for the benefit of unknowing customers so these companies will improve their user experience for actual users. tl;dr Wireless smart home networking sucks. The Smart Home Reality Owning a Real Smart Home (start here!) Networking 215+ Smart Home…

Even the best of us write bugs. This guy did it on purpose. — I’m going to point out a bug in Ben Lesh’s code which ended up just being semantics (more on this below). Ben’s Original Tweet Ben Lesh posted some code on Twitter for a talk he’s going to be doing at ngconf: He wrote this code to provide a simple example where you…