An exploration of the implicit goals of fitness communities through the lens of pushup technique with practical takeaways on fitness goals and the techniques to reach them. — I’ve been into various forms of fitness and exercise for twenty years, off and on. It started with wrestling in high school and over the years which followed involved into muay thai, boxing, weightlifting, HIIT, mountain biking, yoga, calisthenics, and now back to weightlifting. In all of these activities…

I’m in the midst of creating a advanced React training program, and one of the segments is a broad overview of React + Redux tips and best practices. It strives to teach everyone at least one thing new, but hopefully more, about React. I’m sharing the no frills slides with…

svg-to-react-cli A command line utility that takes a svg image file and outputs a fully formatted stateless functional React component…www.npmjs.com In my spare time I’ve been building a mobile game, and I’ve defaulted to my environment of choice: React. Well, React Native in this case. Sure it’s not the first choice of most for game development, but for a stat heavy, state based game with no physics, I thought it…

I wrote this post because I’ve been working with destructuring pretty much since ES6 hit the scene, but I still find pockets of people who aren’t taking proper advantage of it. If you haven’t started using destructuring yet, you should be. Destructuring is a simple way to assign values in…

Recently I started getting very interested in Elm, a functional programming language for the front end that compiles down to HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I’ve never really found myself drawn to compile to JavaScript languages before, but the more I heard about Elm, the more interested I became. The Inspiration for Redux I first…

I’ve been writing unit tests for React with Karma + Mocha + Expect for about nine months now. While it’s been working well enough, there have been a few moments when I’ve found myself thinking, there’s got to be a better way. As my team at Concur transitions from one…

I’m getting interested in Elm, a functional programing language for the web that compiles down to html, JavaScript, and CSS. So in my pursuit of knowledge, I’ve collected some great Elm videos. Hope you like them. (will update as I find more) Erlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm — Making the Web Functional Elm Programming Language by Jesse Williamson “Make the Back-End Team Jealous: Elm in Production” by Richard Feldman

In the Concur App Center team, we’ve been working with React + Redux for a few months now, having switched over from Flummox. We’ve been bucking the file structure trend in favor of the ducks approach, and have been happy with this decision. The common way I see of organizing…

It started a few months back. I was hearing whispers of this new tech called GraphQL. That name was weird, but people talked about this auto-completing IDE that somehow related to it. Then I learned more. GraphQL was another in a line of technologies that were emerging from the hipster…