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W. Brian Gourlie
W. Brian Gourlie

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W. Brian Gourlie
W. Brian Gourlie
Sep 25, 2017 · 4 min read

NodeJS leadership is a toxic mess

How diversity measures are being used to excuse needless vitriol

Preface

In this article, I’m going to be calling out toxic behavior exhibited by certain high-profile…

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W. Brian Gourlie
W. Brian Gourlie
Nov 7, 2016 · 3 min read

Cross-platform development on Windows is suddenly awesome

Anyone who’s done cross-platform development on Windows knows that getting things to compile can be a huge pain in the ass. Sometimes it’s not even possible. The whole situation kinda sucked, until now.

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W. Brian Gourlie
W. Brian Gourlie
Nov 4, 2015 · 2 min read

Java’s Optional: The Do’s and Don’ts

This is a follow up to a previous article I wrote, Java’s new Optional type is worthless. If you want to skip my ranting and get straight to the practical stuff, scroll down to “How to use Optional the way it was intended.”

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W. Brian Gourlie
W. Brian Gourlie
Oct 21, 2015 · 3 min read

Java 8’s new Optional type is worthless

When Java 8 was released, I was excited to see the new Optional type. The null reference is a common source of errors in most languages (see: billion dollar mistake) and option types are a solution to this problem. After spending some time with Java's option…

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