I’d normally avoid such violent analogies, but I have a thing for dark-themed science fiction, and this metaphor seems apt in any case. So without further ado, cue the melodramatic voice-over:

In a World Where…

The vacancy observer pattern is a data-fetching strategy for functional UI frameworks in which a component’s…

(Firewall-breach report on the Brunswick manifestation.)

Growing up, I took E.T.’s fortuitous, last-minute revival for granted as down to the fact that E.T. just did that sort of thing purely because he was awesome. Having read sci-fi authors like Vernor Vinge and others in more recent decades, I can now set aside such…

As in English where you like to run (verb) and also go for a run (noun), we should be comfortable with the duality between verbs and nouns in programming! This is key to understanding not just functional programming, but also generators. Let’s get…